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In 1855, the Pueblo of Acoma requested confirmation of their land grant. Following a period of legal maneuvering the grant was given a patent by the office of the Surveyor General for 95,791.66 acres in 1877. The pueblo of Acoma is one of the most unusual Queres pueblos in…
By Richard and Shirley Flint Sponsored by the Paul C. S. Carpenter History Project and funded by the King/Carpenter Charitable Trust Lester lived in Homburg von der Hohe (now Bad Hamburg), near Frankfurt, Germany, with their family of seven…
Traditional beliefs, customs, songs, stories, ideology, and nature contributed to a cultural worldview expressed through a lifetime of artistic work: Allan Houser June 30, 1914-August 22, 1994. By Valerie Rangel Sponsored by the Paul C. S. Carpenter History Project and funded by the King/Carpenter Charitable Trust Regionally acknowledged as…
In 1837 there was a bloody native insurrection in New Mexico through which certain elements from the country north of Santa Fe took hold of the government, then a Department of the Mexican Republic, and installed their leader, José Gonzales, as Governor. This brief article does not concern itself…
Between 1821 and the outbreak of war with the United States in 1846, no governor of New Mexico enjoyed a longer term in office than Manuel Armijo. He ruled from 1827 to 1829 and again for all but eighteen months between 1837 and the arrival of American troops in…
Allan Houser Chronology 1914 Born June 30 to Sam and Blossom Haozous on the family farm near Apache, OK. 1920 Began grade school at Boone Public School, Boone, OK. 1922 Attended Fort Sill Indian School, Lawton, OK. 1923 – 1928 Completed grade school at Boone Public School. 1928…
Living, Mangas Coloradas was an enigma; dead more than one hundred years, his demise has been equally mysterious. Chief of the murderous Copper Mine band of Apache Indians, who ranged much of southern New Mexico, Arizona, and northern Mexico, he was, physically, a giant among a nation of people…
A Century of Delight By Juliet Currie Gustave Baumann, ingenious master of the color woodcut, was born one hundred years ago in Magdeburg, Germany. Once he said, “Given a free choice in the matter, I would have selected the Southwest as the place to be born. I would…
On January 6, 1822, Santa Fe celebrated New Spain’s independence from Spain in a gala ceremony with church services, processions, pageantry, the firing of guns and ringing of bells. Soon afterward Governor Facundo Melgares penned a vivid and detailed description of this event for the official government newspaper, the…
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…
