victor westphall. Mercedes Reales: Hispanic Land Grants of the Upper Rio Grande Region. (New Mexico Land Grant Series.) Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press. 1983. Pp. xviii, 356. $24.95

1984 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Land Grant ◽  
Land Grants ◽  
University Of New Mexico ◽  
Upper Rio Grande

The Earliest People in the Southwest

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jesse Ballenger ◽  
Vance Holliday ◽  
Guadelupe Sanchez
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Rio Grande Valley ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Projectile Point ◽  
Upper Rio Grande ◽  
Point Type

Paleoindian occupations across the Southwest are known largely from surface artifact collections because relatively few in situ sites are known. Clovis is the exception, with one of the world’s highest concentrations of Clovis mammoth kills occurring in southeast Arizona (Murray Springs, Naco, and Lehner). Otherwise Clovis is thinly scattered across New Mexico, Chihuahua, and Sonora. Folsom is the most common Paleoindian projectile point type in the Southwest in terms of numbers, but is largely concentrated in the basins of the Upper Rio Grande valley in New Mexico and Colorado. Unfluted Paleoindian artifact styles are widely scattered throughout the region, but most are concentrated along the Upper Rio Grande valley.

The Evangelist

2019 ◽  
pp. 113-139
Author(s):  
Lorena Oropeza
Keyword(s):  
New Mexico ◽  
Spanish Speakers ◽  
Land Grant ◽  
Land Grants ◽  
Spanish Colonial ◽  
Cultural Genocide ◽  
Fertile Ground ◽  
Ownership Of Land

In New Mexico, Reies López Tijerina saw long-held aspirations—to secure a piece of land, to find ultimate justice, and even to establish and protect a cultural haven—hit fertile ground. Within two years of the 1963 Alianza Federal de Mercedes founding, he convinced thousands to join his new organization by spreading a three-part land-grant gospel that: 1) upheld Spanish colonial documents as a sign of legitimate ownership; 2) blasted American ownership of land grants as fraudulent; and 3) accused Americans not only of land theft but “cultural genocide.” Many land-poor Spanish-speakers in New Mexico responded to Tijerina’s fearless accusations and, as Tijerina turned to his preacher past, his religious allusions. Many shared his deep faith. More importantly, they bitterly recalled how their ancestors had once used the land without interference.

Mercedes Reales: Hispanic Land Grants of the Upper Rio Grande Region

1984 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 1156 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Weber ◽  
Victor Westphall
Keyword(s):  
Rio Grande ◽  
Land Grants ◽  
Upper Rio Grande
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