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Title: Muster Roll
Source(s): Majestic Journey: Coronado’s Inland Empire Author(s):
Stewart L. Udall (Author)
Before Coronado’s expedition into New Mexico, a muster roll was taken describing each traveler in detail.
We know a lot about events that day at Compostela— exactly 192 years before George Washington was born in 1732—because Don Antonio had issued an order that each soldier would pass before an inspector and declare his possessions. Thus, diligent sc...
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Title: Traditional Apache Life
Author(s):
Southwest Crossroads Spotlight
An overview of some important events and themes in the lives of Apaches.
The Athapaskan peoples migrated south from Alaska and Canada and eventually split into seven distinct groups. By 1500, they occupied a vast expanse of territory in the American Southwest. The extreme environments they inhabited—mountains, deserts, ...
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Title: Last Living Apache Scout
Source(s): Indeh: An Apache Odyssey Author(s):
Big Mouth (Author); Eve Ball (Author)
Big Mouth describes the defeat and imprisonment of his people at Fort Sumner.
I am Big Mouth, last living scout of the Apache wars. I served in the campaigns against Victorio and Geronimo. I do not know my exact age, but I was six or seven years old when my people, the Mescalero Apaches, were forced into captivity at Fort Sumn...
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Title: The San Carlos Apache Reservation
Source(s): The Truth about Geronimo Author(s):
Britton Davis (Author)
US Army lieutenant Britton Davis describes the terrible conditions Apaches endured at the San Carlos Reservation.
Of the five thousand Indians on the White Mountain Reservation, about four thousand were at or near the Agency at San Carlos, depending for food on the government rations doled out to them there. Some two hundred of the chiefs and principal men assem...
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Title: The Taking of San Joaquin, October 1966
Source(s): They Called Me King Tiger: My Struggle for the Land and Our Rights Author(s):
Reies López Tijerina (Author); José Gutiérrez (Translator)
In the 1960s, Reies Lopez Tijerina organized northern New Mexico villagers as descendants of original land grantees in a series of protests and demonstrations to recover their rights to the land.
That the government would question the right of the people to their land was a cruel and unjust violation of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. I now sought to open a new door to the halls of justice. When Ed Stanton fought for the grant in Socorro, he...
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