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By Kim Suina The burgeoning tourist economy and emerging Indian arts market boomed at the Camino Real paraje of Santa Fe during the 1920s. The city hosted the Santa Fe Fiesta, a major tourist event of that era. Tourists from all over the country traveled to Santa Fe to…
By Mathew Martinez, San Juan Pueblo According to tribal oral history, the All Indian Pueblo Council has existed for many centuries as a pan-Pueblo political organization. The year 1598 is often the date cited as its origin because that was the recorded meeting with the Spaniards under Governor Juan…
By Suzanne Stamatov The U.S. government operated two internment camps in New Mexico. After President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, and the roundup of Japanese-Americans began in California, the Justice Department named New Mexico as a site for internment camps. Between March 1942 and April 1946, the…
1711 The Life and Times of Esteban Padilla: How the Acquisition of Land Changed His Social Status and Place in the Padilla Family Hierarchy By Samuel Sisneros Esteban Padilla was born at Bernalillo, New Mexico circa 1711, the illegitimate son of Diego de Padilla, presumably of the Spanish class…
4 10 1827 By William H. Wroth Lew Wallace (1827-1905) served as territorial governor of New Mexico from 1878 to 1881. Wallace was born in Brooksville, Indiana, on April 10, 1827, and moved to Indianapolis in 1837 when his father David Wallace was elected governor of Indiana. With the…
Governor Joaquín del Real Alencaster, 1803-1808 By Rick Hendricks Joaquín del Real Alencaster was born to Antonio del Real and María Antonia Alencaster in Cádiz, Spain, around 1761.According to testimony by his brother, Antonio, the family moved from Cádiz, where the brothers were born, to Algeciras where Antonio, at…
1 28 1814 By Samuel Sisneros Padre Ramón Ortiz’s parents were don Antonio Ortiz and doña Teresa Miera, both descendants of prominent Spanish colonial families in New Mexico, Chihuahua, and Mexico City. Padre Ortiz’s paternal ancestor was Nicolas Ortiz the progenitor of the prominent Ortiz family in New Mexico….
4 22 1904 By Michael Ann Sullivan Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born 22 April 1904 to Julius and Ella Oppenhiemer. Julius, a German-Jewish immigrant, came to America from Germany in 1888. His father started with nothing and worked hard to become a successful cloth importer. His mother Ella came…
1840 By William H. Wroth Adolph F. Bandelier (1840-1914) was one of the most important and influential historians and anthropologists in New Mexico in the nineteenth century. He was born in 1840 in Bern, Switzerland, the son of Adolphe Eugene Bandelier and Mary Senn, both members of prominent families…
5 16 1894 by Michael Ann Sullivan Fabiola Cabeza de Baca was born 16 May 1894 in Las Vegas, New Mexico to Graciano Cabeza de Baca and Indalecia Delgado. The Cabeza de Bacas trace their ancestry back to Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca who explored New Mexico in the…
