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Reies Lopez Tijerina Papers
Collection
Identifier: AC 563-p
Scope and Content
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.
Dates:
1967 - 1974
Found in:
Fray Angélico Chávez History Library
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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- Civil rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century 1
- Land grants -- New Mexico 1
- Land settlement -- Southwest, New 1
- Land tenure -- New Mexico 1
- Land titles -- New Mexico 1
- Legal documents 1
- Mexican Americans -- Civil rights -- New Mexico 1
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- Migrant labor -- United States 1
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- Pamphlets 1
- Political activists -- New Mexico 1
- Posters 1
- Rio Arriba County (N.M.) -- History 1
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- Spanish; Castilian 1
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- Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres (U.S.) 1
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