"Wounds That Have Not Healed: Taos Revolt of 1847..." Topic
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Tango01 | 05 Sep 2016 12:14 p.m. PST |
… and Kit Carson Park. "Nuevo Mexico (the northern remote tip of New Spain that reached Colorado) was a long way from Mexico City and there was no gold and silver to speak of, so the Nortenos went about their business for generations with little oversight from Spanish colonial officials. After the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, the Spanish regained control of the territory and applied lessons learned from the Revolt, but the Pueblos would continue to chafe under colonial and religious laws. Generations of these relationships created the basis for the New Mexico culture that exists today -- until the Americans showed up on the scene during their Manifest Destiny campaigns that brought in so-called Spanish and Mexican territories from Florida to California under American rule. There continues to be an American amnesia that pervades everything historical, as if nothing and no one existed before 1492 or 1776 or 1847 or 1900 and the beginnings of the American Empire…" More here link Amicalement Armand |
FingerandToeGlenn | 05 Sep 2016 1:27 p.m. PST |
I remember visiting Taos Pueblo about twenty years ago. They still point out the American bullet holes in the church walls. Then again, the Rio Grande Pueblos refused to issue firearms to their men when Governor Armijo called for their support against the Americans. |
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