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| A Cultural Mapping and Place Name Study |
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Summary: A Cultural Mapping and Place Name Study: Valles Caldera |
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| Dean Jett Correspondence: |
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Summary: Dean Jett Correspondence: New Mexico's Ties to World War II History |
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| Environmental Writing in New Mexico: Nina Otero Warren |
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Summary: Environmental Writing in New Mexico: Nina Otero Warren
Mexican American writing is a very valuable resource for environmental thought. Mexican Americans' deep historical ties to the land - working the land in sustainable ways - and the narration of these ties in memoirs and novels of the nineteenth and early twentieth century prove invaluable resources for traditional environmental knowledge. Up to now, no one has taken the time to establish a methodical mapping of Mexican American environmental writing. Writing such a Mexican American environmental literary history involves two challenges: to establish as deep a historical context as possible, and to offer a comprehensive geographic representation. This lecture is part of this larger project and concerns the environmental writer Adelina Otero Warren from New Mexico, a region that contains a rich history of writing about the natural environment, and delves into the early twentieth century, a period of dynamic development in the Mexican American identity. |
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| The Alianza Federal de Mercedes: Between Memory and History |
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Summary: The Alianza Federal de Mercedes: Between Memory and History
In this lecture, Dr. Oropeza explicates two strategies that allow her to address the era of land-grant activism in general and the Alianza's Federal de Mercedes' controversial founder in particular. Dr. Oropeza argues that Reies López Tijerina's greatest significance was not as a gun-wielding revolutionary (as so often painted in celebratory accounts of the Tierra Amarilla Courthouse Raid) but as someone who popularized a long-suppressed version of the past, in this case, the memory of land loss among Spanish-speaking New Mexicans. Secondly she argues that Reies López Tijerina was also a memory enforcer in terms of his own reputation. On the one hand, Tijerina challenged mythic narratives about the peaceful conquest of Native people by the Spanish and of harmonious race relations through time in New Mexico. On the other hand, Tijerina was very much involved in establishing and even enforcing an official story about himself and his role in the land-grant movement and beyond. |
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| The Ortega Papers from Chimayó |
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Summary: The Ortega Papers from Chimayó: Records from 200 Years at the Plaza del Cerro |
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| Thomás Vélez Cachupín and the New Mexico Pueblos |
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Summary: Thomás Vélez Cachupín and the New Mexico Pueblos: Did the Governor Recognize Aboriginal Claims in his Grants to the Pueblos of Zia, Jemez, Santa Ana, and Cochiti? |
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