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Title: Two Lives for Oñate
Author(s):
Miguel Encinias (Author)
An excerpt from a novel about Juan de Oñate's campaign to conquer New Mexico in 1598-99.
On 12 January 1599, Zaldívar set out for Acoma with seventy soldiers and instructions to demand the delivery of those guilty for the attack on the Spaniards and, failing to achieve that, to wage relentless war and to take all of the inhabitants pris...
Show Keywords: 1590s; Acoma Pueblo; age; agreement; Aguilar, Pablo de, Captain; alerts; anger; army; arquebus; arrows; attacks; Battle of Acoma; battles; Benavides, Fray Alonso; blessing; blood; boulders; breakfast; breath; bridges; brothers; bury; camps; Castilians; Catholicism; caves; chants; chasms; chiefs; children; Christianity; clothing; colonialism; commanders; conquers; conquistadores; councils; counsel; courage; cousins; crags; curses; damages; dances; danger; death; deceives; defeat; deserts; dies; disasters; Don Tomás; drums; elders; Encinias, Miguel; enemies; evacuates; families; fathers; fatigue; field commander; fights; fire; fissures; foreigners; forts; Franciscans; friends; gender; generals; governor; grief; guilt; gunfire; guns; hearts; history; honor; horses; ice; inhabitants; injuries; intruders; January; Jesus Christ; jobs; Kho-Ka-Cha-Ni; kills; Knights of Christ; Ku-Wai-Dii; López, Captain; lieutenants; life; loves; lumber; Mass; Márquez, Captain; men; mercy; mesas; missions; mornings; mountains; nephew; New Mexico; noncombatants; novels; Oñate, Juan de; onslaughts; peace; poets; pride; prisoners; puddles; Quesada, Captain Alonso de; rebellions; revenge; riders; rulers; San Juan Pueblo; selections; shoots; showers; Shu-Wi-Mi; sickness; silence; sleep; soldiers; souls; Spanish; squadrons; stairs; stones; storms; sunsets; surprise; surrender; swords; terms; threats; tomorrow; understand; ventures; victory; villages; Villagrá, Gaspar Pérez de; volunteers; war captains; war club; warns; warriors; wars; weapons; west; whores; winter; wives; women; wounds; Zaldívar, Vicente de; Zubía, Captain |
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Title: Abiquiu
Author(s):
Southwest Crossroads Spotlight
A short history of Abiquiu and its peoples, including genizaros in the 1700s.
The village of Abiquiu lies in the Chama River Valley on high ground above the Chama River. People made their homes in the Chama River Valley for at least 5,000 years before the establishment of this village in the 1700s. We know this because we find...
Show Keywords: 1500s; 1600s; 1700s; 1730s; abandon; Abiquiu; attacks; authority; baptizes; beans; bison; buffers; captives; Chama; conflicts; corn; danger; decades; deer; enemies; families; farmers; farming; fields; fights; genizaros; Hernandez; hide; history; home; horses; indigenous people; inhabitants; land grants; leadership; meat; mesas; Navajos; neighbors; New Mexico; peace; Pecos; Plains Indians; populations; presents; pueblos; pumpkins; raids; regions; residents; Rio Grande Valley; rivers; routes; ruins; San Juan Pueblo; San Juan River; Santo Tomas; security; settlements; settlers; Southwest Crossroads Spotlight; Spanish; squash; systems; Taos; territory; trade; Trujillo, Bartolomé; Utes; valleys; villages |
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Title: Tierra Amarilla
Author(s):
Southwest Crossroads Spotlight
A brief history of Tierra Amarilla.
The village of Tierra Amarilla lies in the Chama River Valley. Groups of hunters and gatherers lived in this valley as far back as about 5,000 years ago. Archaeologists know about at least ten significant pueblo sites along the Chama River, between p...
Show Keywords: 1500s; 1600s; 1776; 1790s; 1800s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; 1880s; Abiquiu; acequias; America; Americans; archaeologists; attacks; battles; beans; bison; businesses; buys; California; Chama; Chihuahua; conflicts; corn; courts; danger; deeds; descendants; descriptions; documents; Domínguez, Fray Francisco Atanasio; enemies; equipment; Escalante, Fray Velez de; expansion; expeditions; farmers; farming; fields; fights; Franciscans; friars; gather; gold rushes; government; herds; history; home; hunts; individuals; inhabitants; irrigation; kills; land grants; laws; Laws of the Indies; Little Beaver Creek; Martínez, Francisco; merchants; Mexicans; Mexico City; miners; Mormons; Navajos; New Mexico; Old Spanish Trail; pastures; peace; petitions; Plains Indians; plaza; populations; presents; proceedings; pueblos; pumpkins; raids; railroad; rebellions; regions; Rio Grande; Rio Grande Valley; roads; routes; ruins; San Juan Pueblo; San Juan River; Santa Fe; settlements; settlers; Southwest Crossroads Spotlight; Spanish; speculators; squash; territory; Texas; Tierra Amarilla; Tierra Amarilla Courthouse Uprising; towns; trade; traders; Utes; villages; water; white men; writes; writing |
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Title: Reies López Tijerina and the Tierra Amarilla Courthouse Raid
Author(s):
Southwest Crossroads Spotlight
A description of conflicts over land ownership in northern New Mexico. In the 1960s, Reies Lopez Tijerina organized the descendants of the original land grantees in a series of protests and demonstrations to recover their lands.
When the Spaniards claimed northern New Mexico as Spanish land in the 1600s, settlers from Spain and present-day Mexico formed ranching and farming communities on land long occupied by Native Americans. The Spanish authorities awarded land grants to ...
Show Keywords: 1600s; 1820s; 1840s; Abiquiu; acequias; Albuquerque; Americans; ancestors; Arizona; authority; boundary; buildings; Bureau of Land Management; Cargo, Governor David; cattle; citizens; civil rights; claims; Colorado; communities; conflicts; courts; debates; descendants; ditches; Echo Amphitheater; farming; Federal Alliance of Land Grants; federal land reserves; fields; Forest Service; government; hispanics; hostages; indigenous people; inhabitants; irrigation; justice; land grants; landowners; lands; lies; manhunts; Mexican Revolution; Mexico; National Park Service; negotiations; New Mexicans; New Mexico; organizations; people; plants; preachers; protests; raids; ranchers; ranches; rights; San Joaquín; Santa Fe; settlers; shoots; south; Southwest Crossroads Spotlight; Spain; Spanish; speakers; supporters; tactics; Tierra Amarilla; Tierra Amarilla Courthouse Uprising; Tijerina, Reies López; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; trials; United States; US-Mexican War; Utah; villages; violence; wars; water; white men |
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Title: La Tierra Amarilla: Its History, Architecture, and Cultural Landscape
Author(s):
Chris Wilson (Author); David Kammer (Author)
A brief history of the Tierra Amarilla land grant.
Two events in the early 1880s marked a turning point in the development of the region. The effects of the first, the arrival of the railroad in 1880, were quickly felt; the effects of the second, the final confirmation of the Tierra Amarilla Grant in...
Show Keywords: 1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1900s; 1910s; acequias; agreement; Americans; architecture; areas; awards; boundary; bridges; Burns, T.D.; buyers; buys; calico; carpentry; cast iron; Catron, Thomas; cattle; centuries; Chama; claims; coffee; Colorado; commons; communities; companies; confirmation; conflicts; congress; construction; controls; counties; courts; death; deceives; deeds; Denver and Rio Grande Railway; descendants; develops; dies; disputes; districts; documents; doors; Durango; Ebright, Malcomb; economy; English; entradas; events; excepts; explorers; exports; families; farmers; farming; farms; fences; fields; firewood; gold; graze; hispanics; history; houses; immigration; importers; indications; individuals; inhabitants; inheritance; irrigation; judiciary; justice; land grants; landowners; lands; laws; lawsuits; lawyers; leadership; legislators; livestock; logs; lumber; manufactures; Martínez, Francisco; Martinez, Manuel; merchandise; Mexicans; miles; nations; New Mexico; north; origins; ornamentation; owners; pastures; patents; petitions; plows; populations; proceedings; producers; property; railroad; regions; retains; roads; roofs; San Juan; San Juan County; San Juan Valley; Santa Fe; scholars; sells; settlers; shingles; shops; silver; sons; south; Southwest; Spanish; Spanish Crown; speculation; speculators; spokesmen; steel; stoves; strangers; students; sugar; suppression; surveys; territory; Tierra Amarilla; Tierra Amarilla Land Grant; ties; timber; tools; traditions; transfers; translate; US-Mexican War; valleys; villages; water; white men; windows; wires; wood; wool; World War I; World War II; writes; writing |