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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
UNM Center for Regional Studies Projects
Collection
Identifier: MSS-1112-BC
Scope and Contents
The Center for Regional Studies Projects collection contains documentation and research material related to some of the many projects CRS has been involved in or sponsored. The collection is partially processed. It contains 5 boxes of processed material and 21 unprocessed boxes. The bulk of the material was created and collected for the research projects which include photos, exhibits, publications, research files, some VHS tapes and approximately 40 audio cassettes for three different oral...
Dates:
1935-2000
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- Chicano Studies 1
- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
- Education -- New Mexico -- History 1
- Land grants -- New Mexico 1
- Land settlement -- Southwest, New 1
- Land tenure -- New Mexico 1
- Land titles -- New Mexico 1
- Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- New Mexico 1
- Mexican Americans -- Education -- New Mexico 1
- Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- History 1
- Mexican Americans -- New Mexico -- Rural conditions 1
- Migrant labor -- United States 1
- Moving images 1
- New Mexico -- Ethnic relation 1
- New Mexico -- Politics and government - History - 1951 1
- New Mexico -- Social conditions 1
- Political activists -- New Mexico 1
- Poor Peoples Campaign 1
- Rio Arriba County (N.M.) -- History 1
- Social movements -- United States 1
- Sound recordings 1
- Tijerina and the courthouse raid 1
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans 1 ∧ less
- Language
- Spanish; Castilian 1
- Names
- Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres (U.S.) 1
- Alianza Federal de las Mercedes 1
- Tijerina, Reies 1
- University of New Mexico. Center for Regional Studies 1
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