[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1384 Introduced in House (IH)]







107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1384

 To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Navajo Long 
          Walk to Bosque Redondo as a national historic trail.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 3, 2001

  Mr. Udall of New Mexico (for himself and Mr. Cannon) introduced the 
    following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Resources

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                                 A BILL


 
 To amend the National Trails System Act to designate the Navajo Long 
          Walk to Bosque Redondo as a national historic trail.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Navajo Long Walk National Historic 
Trail Act''.

SEC. 2. NAVAJO LONG WALK NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) Beginning in the fall of 1863 and ending in the winter 
        of 1864, the Long Walk terminated at Fort Sumner, New Mexico, 
        where the Navajo were held captive, virtually as prisoners of 
        war, for over 4 years.
            (2) More than 3,000 Navajos died at Fort Sumner, either by 
        starvation or malnutrition due to inadequate and poor quality 
        food rations, disease caused by brackish water and improper 
        food preparations, exposure due to inadequate provisions of 
        clothing and shelter, failed food crops, or conflicts between 
        the Navajos and United States military personnel and other 
        Indian tribes imprisoned at Fort Sumner.
    (b) Trail Established.--Section 5(a) of the National Trails System 
Act (16 U.S.C. 1244(a)) is amended--
            (1) by redesignating the second paragraph (21) (relating to 
        the Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail) as paragraph (22); and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(23) The Navajo Long Walk National Historic Trail (hereinafter in 
the paragraph referred to as the `Long Walk Trail'), a trail consisting 
of an overland route traveled by more than 8,000 Navajo Indians forced 
to walk nearly 350 miles as a result of their removal by the United 
States Government from their ancestral lands in northeastern Arizona 
and northwestern New Mexico to the Bosque Redondo in eastern New 
Mexico. The Long Walk Trail is generally located within the corridor 
extending through portions of Canyon de Chelley, Arizona, and 
Albuquerque, Canyon Blanco, Anton Chico, Canyon Piedra Pintado, and 
Fort Sumner, New Mexico, as generally depicted on the map entitled 
____, and dated ____. Such map shall be on file and available for 
public inspection in the Office of the National Park Service, 
Department of the Interior. The Long Walk Trail shall be administered 
by the Secretary of the Interior. No lands or interests therein outside 
the boundaries of any federally administered area may be acquired by 
the Federal Government for the Long Walk Trail except with the consent 
of the owner thereof.''.
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