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A short excerpt from the Introduction of Sylvia Rodriguez book The Matachines Dance. From the Introduction of The Matachines Dance by Sylvia Rodriguez The Matachines dance is a ritual drama performed on certain saint’s days in Pueblo Indian and Mexicano/Hispano communities along the upper Rio Grande valley and elsewhere…
This interview was taken by Edith L. Crawford as part of the Federal Writers' Project. The Project was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) under the New Deal. Interviews with 'old timers' and prominent citizens were recorded for posterity. Topics varied but were meant to encompass the history…
This interview was taken by Edith Crawford as part of the Federal Writers' Project. The Project was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) under the New Deal. Interviews with 'old timers' and prominent citizens were recorded for posterity. There were over 218 interviews taken in New Mexico. Topics varied…
This interview was taken by Georgia Redfield as part of the Federal Writers' Project. The Project was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) under the New Deal. Interviews with 'old timers' and prominent citizens were recorded for posterity. Topics varied but were meant to encompass the history of…
The Padre Martinez Bilingual Ritual: New Mexico’s First Book MANUALITO DE PARROCOS – 1839 A Presentation for the Conference on RECOVERING THE HISPANIC LITERARY HERITAGE IN THE UNITED STATES MANUALITO DE PARROCOS Para Los Autos del Ministerio Mas Preciosos y Auxiliar a los Enfermos PASTORS’ HANDBOOK For the More…
This interview was taken by Lorin Brown as part of the Federal Writers' Project. The Project was part of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) under the New Deal. Interviews with 'old timers' and prominent citizens were recorded for posterity. Topics varied but were meant to encompass the history of the state…
WPA Writers Project essay on the Town of Tome and how it got its name as the "Town of the Broken Promise." The Town of the Broken Promise Tome, New Mexico by A. A. Carter, WPA Writers Project, ca. 1935 Some time early in seventeen hundred Don Ignacio Baca…
Only two members of the New Mexico Bar have been honored by the naming of a New Mexico county—Thomas B. Catron in 1921, just four months before his death, and Jose Francisco Chaves, for whom the county was named at the height of his political power in 1889. by…
The casual observer might justifiably assume that the 19th Century New Mexico law business was almost the exclusive province of persons who had come to the territory after 1846. The first published list of persons admitted to the Bar of the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Mexico…
Bernard Shandon Rodey was born March 1, 1856 in County Mayo, Ireland and emigrated with his parents in 1862, first to Canada and then to Vermont. He arrived in New Mexico in 1881 as an employee of the railroad and was admitted to the Bar in 1883. As a…
