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Suffering, resiliency on display at Fort Sumner

FORT SUMNER - They named the area near this place Bosque Redondo, after a grove of cottonwoods near the river.

The Navajo imprisoned there called it "Hwéeldi." Some say that translates to "place of suffering."

It might as well have been called hell....