<P> The Long Walk of the Navajo , also called the Long Walk to Bosque Redondo ( Navajo : Hwéeldi ) , refers to the 1864 deportation and attempted ethnic cleansing of the Navajo people by the government of the United States of America . Navajos were forced to walk from their land in what is now Arizona to eastern New Mexico . Some 53 different forced marches occurred between August 1864 and the end of 1866 . Some anthropologists claim that the `` collective trauma of the Long Walk ... is critical to contemporary Navajos ' sense of identity as a people '' . </P>
where did the long walk start and end
from their land in what is now Arizona to eastern New Mexico