El Dorado

Following his arrival to the American Southwest in 1862, brigadier general James Henry Carleton of the Union Army would oversee the process of destroying Native American powers throughout the Southwest until his reassignment in 1867. The process of destruction took many forms, and was itself simultaneously literal and figurative. In its final stage, this destruction took form as Bosque Redondo; a reservation planned as an experiment by Carleton to finalize the pacification of Native American…