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Alfonso Sanchez papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-803-BC
Abstract
Alfonso Sanchez was the District Attorney for Rio Arriba County during the land struggle of Reies Lopez Tijerina and the Alianza Federal de las Mercedes. The collection consists of biographical materials pertaining to Alfonso Sanchez, as well as materials pertaining to the Tierra Amarillo land grant and Reies Lopez Tijerina.
Dates:
1856-2004; Majority of material found within 1955-1970
Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-628-BC
Scope and Content
This collection contains newspaper clippings, magazine articles, pamphlets, flyers, press releases, and broadsides relating to Alianza Federal de las Mercedes, Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres, Reies Lopez Tijerina, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, land grants, education, employment, and discrimination. The Alianza constitution is also included in the collection. An oversized folder contains broadsides, reprints and a map. This collection is composed of materials that were formerly housed in...
Dates:
1963-1997 (bulk 1967-1979)
Reies Tijerina Papers
Collection
Identifier: MSS-654-BC
Abstract
The collection contains the papers of New Mexico land grant activist Reies Lopez Tijerina, best known for founding the Alianza Federal de Mercedes. The group organized heirs seeking to regain Spanish and Mexican land grants protected under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, an important component of the Chicano Movement.
Dates:
1888-2003; Majority of material found within 1963-1978
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- Land grants -- New Mexico 2
- New Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1951- 2
- Sound recordings 2
- Tierra Amarilla (N.M.) 2
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
- Hispanic Americans -- New Mexico -- Land tenure -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Land grants -- New Mexico -- Tierra Amarilla -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Land grants -- New Mexico -- Tierra Amarilla -- Sources. 1
- Land settlement -- Southwest, New 1
- Land tenure -- New Mexico 1
- Land titles -- New Mexico 1
- Land titles -- New Mexico -- Tierra Amarilla Region -- History. 1
- Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- New Mexico 1
- Mexican Americans -- Civil rights. 1
- Mexican Americans -- Education -- New Mexico 1
- Mexican Americans -- Land tenure -- New Mexico 1
- Mexican Americans -- New Mexico 1
- Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- History 1
- Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- Rural conditions 1
- Migrant labor -- United States 1
- Moving images 1
- Mural painting and decoration 1
- New Mexico -- Ethnic relation 1
- New Mexico -- History, Local 1
- New Mexico -- Politics and government - History - 1951 1
- New Mexico -- Social conditions 1
- Political activists -- New Mexico 1
- Political activists -- New Mexico. 1
- Protest movements -- New Mexico -- History -- 20th century. 1
- Rio Arriba County (N.M.) 1
- Rio Arriba County (N.M.) -- History 1
- Social movements -- United States 1
- Tierra Amarilla (N.M.) -- History 1
- Trials (Political crimes and offenses) -- New Mexico 1 ∧ less
- Language
- Spanish; Castilian 2
- Names
- Sanchez, Alfonso, 1928- 1
- University of New Mexico. Center for Southwest Research 1
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