By Robert J. Torrez Former New Mexico State Historian Governor Antonio de Otermin and approximately 2000 Spanish refugees spent the winter following their expulsion from New Mexico at what was supposed to be a temporary camp near El Paso de Norte, present day Cuidad Juarez. Here Otermin established his…
By David Joshua Anderson The history of Los Alamos is a fascinating chapter in New Mexico history. Los Alamos is one of the youngest counties in the state and has had a rich and varied past ranging from Indian tribes around 1100, Spanish explorers, ranchers, homesteaders, and one of…
By Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint A major player in the re-conquest of New Mexico in the 1690s under Diego de Vargas was Antonio de Valverde Cosío. He became interim governor of the province in 1715 and was named to the post in his own right in 1718….
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…
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…
by Richard Flint and Shirley Cushing Flint The decades of the 1660s and 1670s were ones of looming catastrophe for the Spanish province of New Mexico. There had been repeated disputes between Franciscan clergy and royal governors over use of Indian labor and conflicting attitudes toward native religious practice….
10 17 1859 Born in Missouri, Otero’s parents took him at the age of two back to their home in New Mexico, crossing the plains in a stagecoach. He was later to return east to be educated at St. Louis University and the University of Notre Dame. He became…
9 11 1923 By Rick Hendricks Roy Minoru Nakayama was born on 11 September 1923 to John K. and Tome Nakayama, both of whom had been born in Japan. At the time of his birth, Roy was the fifth of seven children. He would eventually have one more sibling,…
by William H. Wroth The Rebellion of 1837 in northern New Mexico began in Santa Cruz de la Cañada and neighboring communities along the Santa Cruz River and its tributaries. Its causes were complex. They can be attributed mainly to the poverty and discontent caused by the large increase…
