1630 by Matthew Martinez, Ohkay Owingeh Popé is revered as the leader of the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. Pueblo scholars refer to him as the one who carried out the first successful American revolution against a foreign colonial power, Spain. Popé (Ripe Pumpkin) was from Ohkay Owingeh (known today…
Spanish MIssions of New Mexico Established By Robert J. Torrez Former New Mexico State Historian Spanish missions were churches established by Franciscan Friars in Indian villages called pueblos, the Spanish word for town. The purpose of these missions was to have a place in each pueblo where the Indians…
Explicase el arbol de Consanguinidad en linea recta En este arbol se hallan tres lineas: La primera es la recta. La segunda es la transversal igual. La tercera es la transversal desigual. En la recta se ponen los ascendientes, y descendientes de Pedro (ó de otra qualquiera persona, cuyo…
2 26 1879 by Michael Ann Sullivan In December of 1917, Mabel Dodge closed her apartment in Greenwich Village, and took a long slow train ride to Lamy, New Mexico to meet her husband Maurice Sterne and her son Paul. Although she planned only a brief vacation, the 38-year-old…
immigrant, Asian-American, Chinese Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives The ghost of Ah Nue, a Chinese immigrant, is said to still haunt the town of White Oaks, NM.
Korean War, Japanese-American, Gallup, Asian Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives Hiroshi "Hershey" Miyamura does his hometown of Gallup proud during the Korean War.
Japanese, Asian, Nisei, POWs, internment camps, World War II Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives Internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II is now seen as a national embarrassment, however, no one interned at the Santa Fe…
boxing, fight Claude Stephenson, State Folklorist, Department of Cultural Affairs Rick Hendricks, State Historian, State Records Center and Archives This much ballyhooed boxing match of 1912 didn't turn out so well.
US Army, snakes, hunting, soldiers I want to try to show, by this paper, how a hunter can have an interesting and exciting day without killing game, or even getting a shot,—that is, if he is in a rattlesnake country. I will tell the story and give the incidents…
11 26 1858 By Corinne P. Sze Katharine Drexel was born shortly before the American Civil War to a deeply religious, Roman Catholic family distinguished by material success, philanthropy, and recurrent tragedy. She was the second of three daughters born to Francis Anthony Drexel, a banker of international renown…
