The Petroglyph National Monument is a 17 mile long volcanic basalt escarpment, encompassing approximately 7,236 acres (29.28 km²), located on the West Mesa of Albuquerque, New Mexico. This area has a long history of occupation, being used by Native peoples for prayers, offerings, gathering of medicinal plants, and is considered…
Bishop Tamaron’s Visitation to New Mexico-1760 Dr. Pedro Tamarón y Romeral, sixteenth bishop of Durango, set forth on the first of a series of episcopal visitations, during which he covered a large part of his vast diocese. The Pope and the King had both called for the existing diocese…
By Rick Hendricks The matter began simply enough. In early 1802, Captain Antonio García de Tejada informed Commandant General Pedro de Nava that the chaplain of San Carlos presidio, fray Luis Salgado, had denied the sacrament of the Eucharist to several young women. Father Salgado responded that the captain…
Translation by Rick Hendricks I, the minister who serves it, fray Ambrosio Guerra, provide information about this mission, Our Lady of Sorrows of the pueblo of Sandia; it has been two years since holy obedience placed me in it. It was built in the month of October 1787. Noted…
Transcripción de Rick Hendricks Noticio de esta micion Nuestra Señora de los dolores del pueblo de sandia hay dos años que la santa obe- dencia me puso en ella: Habiendose erecto en el mes de hoctubre del año de mil cetecientos ochen- ta y ciete Ministro que…
By Rick Hendricks On 3 July 1850, Jean Baptiste Lamy was appointed Vicar Apostolic of Santa Fe. In December Lamy passed through New Orleans on his journey westward to New Mexico. A young Spanish priest named Antonio Severo Borrajo happened to be in New Orleans, and his chance meeting…
By Rick Hendricks Introduction As the Brothers of St. Francis toiled in the Lord's vast and desolate vineyard that was the province of New Mexico under imperial Spain, they were rarely able to escape the mundane struggle for existence in an often harsh, unforgiving land. Nevertheless, in the absence…
The people of Tamaya Pueblo who have occupied their current site in central New Mexico since at least the late 1500s, believe their ancestors originated from a subterranean world to the north. Assisted by their mother Iyatiko, they ascended through four worlds– the white, red, blue and yellow worlds–…
By Alice Bullock There was no ladder on the ranch, nor was there any white paint, but there was the ten-foot high Cross on the west wing of the Morley ranch house near Datil. It had not been there the day before, but the next morning, there it was….
By Patricia Westlake* Archives are the houses where memories are stored. Photographs, documents, and books retain the stories of the past; waiting to be unearthed, retold, and remembered. Far back, in a climate-controlled room and behind two locked doors, rests the archives of the New Mexico Jewish Historical Society…
