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Alfonso Sanchez papers
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.
Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres Collection
David Correia Research Papers
The David Correia Research Papers document the history and people of the Tierra Amarilla land grant conflict in Northern New Mexico.
Governor Jerry Apodaca Papers,
La Cooperación del Pueblo de Tierra Amarilla Collection
Peter Nabokov Papers
Peter Nabokov Photograph Collection
The collection consists of photographs taken at the time of the "Courthouse Raid" incident in Tierra Amarilla, NM. As well as photographs taken in 1977 of Reies Lopez Tijerina, Ubaldo Velasquez, Emilio Naranjo, Moises Morales, Pedro Archuleta, and Tony Anaya. A 2018 addition contains photographs and slides primarily related to the Hunt family and Acoma Pueblo.
Reies Lopez Tijerina Papers
Papers consist of court documents and notes concerning Tijerina's M-1 carbine (in possession of the New Mexico History Museum). Weapon was in Tijerina's possession at the time of his arrest in 1969. Also included are a bilingual reward poster "Who killed Eulogio Salazar," two publications by Alan Stang (Reies Tijerina: The Communist Plan to Grab the Southwest, 1967/New Mexico: The Coming Guerrilla War, 1969), and Frankie McCarty's Land Grant Problems in New Mexico, 1969.
Reies Tijerina Papers
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.
Reies Tijerina Photograph Collection
The photos in this collection relate to the and other events in the life of land grant activist, Reis Lopez Tijerina.Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres and other events in the life of land grant activist, Reis Lopez Tijerina.
Stephen Strom Photograph Collection
The Stephen Strom Photograph Collection consists of prints and digital images of landscapes and building exteriors of various New Mexico communities.
T.D. Burns, Jr. papers
Son of T.D. Burns, who inherited and established the mercantile operation in Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico, and the collection includes personal and business letters.