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Tue Sep 13, 2011 at 09:33:39 AM PDT
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When the United States acquired what is now New Mexico and Arizona in 1846, a number of Pueblos were brought under American rule according to the Discovery Doctrine. The Pueblos created a few problems for the Americans, however, as they did not conform to the stereotype of nomadic Indians whose lives centered around hunting. There were, in fact, debates about whether or not the Pueblos should actually be considered as Indian tribes. It would take thirty years until the Supreme Court would issue a ruling on this question.
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Sun Sep 11, 2011 at 14:27:07 PM PDT
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When the United States acquired what is now New Mexico and Arizona in 1846, a number of Pueblos were brought under American rule according to the Discovery Doctrine. The Pueblos created a few problems for the Americans, however, as they did not conform to the stereotype of nomadic Indians whose lives centered around hunting. Actually, very few Indian nations in the United States resembled this stereotype, but the American government has never let the realities of Indian cultures interfere with imaginary descriptions.
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Fri Jul 08, 2011 at 16:40:05 PM PDT
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The conquests of the Aztec and Inka empires in the early 1500s brought great wealth to Spain in the form of gold and silver. Inspired by this wealth and driven by greed for even more wealth, many Spanish expeditions set out to find gold and silver which could be easily plundered from other Native civilizations. Legends which told of Native cities with streets of gold and other forms of wealth were often translated by Spanish explorers as reality which awaited them if they persisted. While the locations of these fabled cities and lost civilizations were nebulous at best, this did not stop the Spanish from mounting expeditions to search for them. The consequences of these greed-driven expeditions were often disastrous for the Indian people they encountered.
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Thu Jul 07, 2011 at 08:17:49 AM PDT
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When the Spanish first began to explore the area which would later be known as New Mexico, they encountered well-established Indian agricultural villages. Collectively, the Spanish referred to these people as Pueblos (Spanish for village). While the Pueblos share some common features of material culture, such as the architecture of their permanent villages, they are culturally distinct from one another. In New Mexico, the various Pueblo languages belong to three different language families: Keresan, Tanoan, and Zunian.
Linguistically, the Keresan language family is divided into two groups: Eastern, which includes Cochiti, San Felipe, Santa Ana, Santo Domingo, and Zia; and Western, which includes Laguna and Acoma. Some researchers, such as Alfonso Ortiz, feel that there is a linguistic connection between Keresan and the languages of the Caribbean.
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Mon Nov 01, 2010 at 21:04:51 PM PDT
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The major European powers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries took very different approaches to American Indians. For the French, the Indians were potential trading partners. The English were interested in Indian land and therefore the Indians were simply in the way. For the Spanish, the situation was more complex. On one level the Spanish viewed Indians as a form of labor which could be exploited and the success of the Spanish colonies in the Americas was based on this exploitation. On another level, they viewed the Indians as having souls which could be brought to their God.
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Wed Jul 15, 2009 at 16:01:12 PM PDT
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On the morning of July 16, 1979, Church Rock (just east of Gallup, NM and north of I-40) was a small sun baked community of mainly Navajo (Dine') people, herding sheep or growing a little corn amidst red dirt and sagebrush. Clusters of traditional hogans (eight sided cabins) and mobile homes can be seen from the roads throughout the region, marking family land allotments.
Behind an earthen pond dam, ninety million gallons of liquid radioactive waste, and eleven hundred tons of solid mill wastes were sitting in a pond waiting for evaporation to leave behind solids. Suddenly, the dam gave way and the waters burst through, flowing out across the red land, and down the washes to permanently contaminate the Rio Puerco, known to traditional Dine' as To' Nizhoni (beautiful water.) This may look like a large dry wash to people passing over it at 80 miles an hour on the interstate. There is water mostly when there are thunderstorms in the watershed or when the winter snow melts up in the mountains. There are not a lot of people living out here. You can see a long way when the interstate tops a rise, and you can see a great empty distance with long train tracks. When the freight trains come through, they bear logos like MAERSK, China Shipping, Costco. Consumer goods bound for the big box stores elsewhere.
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Fri Oct 03, 2008 at 08:23:01 AM PDT
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Which, in a way, is good news. It means Montana is still in play. It means that the Republicans are feeling vulnerable, and playing desperate defense, even in the supposedly safe Republican stronghold of the Big Sky Country. Reported in AlterNet:
More than half of the challenged registrations were in Missoula, where the University of Montana is located, and where the 3,400 targeted voters is equal to 5 percent of the county's voters, said Matt Singer, CEO of Forward Montana, a progressive voter advocacy organization. The other registrations were challenged in Butte-Silver Bow, Lewis and Clark, Deerlodge, Glacier or Hill Counties.
It should surprise no one that these efforts are focussed on college towns and Indian reservations.
Cross-posted at Daily Kos.
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Sat Sep 13, 2008 at 18:07:15 PM PDT
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I've got some good news, so check it out:
I've heard it said, and seen it written: The voter rolls in New Mexico were purged, and it's gonna sabotage the election. The implication is that something nefarious has happened. I decided to test it out. With a mini-audit on one precinct that I know well. I worked it in 2004 in detail, and still have the files.
I went through Taos County, Precinct 13 (Taos Pueblo Reservation) - comparing the voter rolls from Election Day 2004 with today. My conclusion? Nothing to worry about. Unless something is very different in another part of the state, that is.
Since there are persistent rumors and speculation on this, I thought it would be worth sharing what I found out. And explain how others can check their own voter rolls for purges, too - in time to repair any damage found with targeted voter registration efforts.
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Thu Sep 11, 2008 at 09:07:27 AM PDT
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Sandia Pueblo, near Albuquerque in NM-01, happens to have an excellent location for a casino. They've come a long ways since their modest Bingo Room back in the 1990s. Casino proceeds have built a variety of community facilities, placed a computer in every home, and plowed a lot back into additional economic development. This is their newly-opened resort:
The mountains behind it are the Sandia Mountains, traditional spiritual place for the small Tiwa-speaking tribe. That piece of turf was claimed by the US after the Mexican-American War and later incorporated into the National Forests. The tribe was involved in ongoing efforts to protect their interests and traditional activities in the Sandias. When the the money started coming in from gaming, they decided to hire a lobbyist. Who did they hire? To the tune of $1.7 million? Jack Abramoff. And who presided over the associated Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearings? And sealed 98% of the hearing's documents? John McCain!
Cross-posted at Daily Kos and Democracy for New Mexico.
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