Acoma Indians -- Land tenure

Scope and Content Collection consists of original documents and photocopies involving Acoma and Laguna Indian Pueblos in New Mexico. Includes letters and various legal documents. Much of the collection concerns legal disputes between Acoma and Laguna Pueblos over land tenure, boundaries, and water rights. Also within the collection is a 1904 letter to officials at Acoma Pueblo from officials at New Mexico's eight northern Pueblos requesting united opposition among all Pueblos to the New Mexico Supreme Court's...

Abstract The Ward Alan Minge Papers contain legal and historical documents (depositions, reports, exhibits, legal opinions, translations and transcriptions of Spanish and Mexican era sources, documents from the territorial and modern era) concerning New Mexico’s Pueblo Indians. Correspondences, reports, maps, and articles pertaining to the Pueblos and to various New Mexico historical associations and commissions are also included.

Scope and Content The correspondence in this collection pertains to a dispute regarding the extent of lands belonging to the Pueblo of Acoma, as well as to the related issues of settlement on land claimed by Acoma and the accusation of theft of livestock by neighboring Hispanic settlers. The majority of the letters are between Douglass and Frank Ortiz, Governor of Acoma, and between Douglass and James H. Miller, interpreter of Acoma. Additionally, there are single letters from Leo Garcia, former Governor of...