Description
Winner of the 2014 Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association
This long-awaited book is the most detailed and up-to-date account of the complex history of Pueblo Indian land in New Mexico, beginning in the late seventeenth century and continuing to the present day. The authors have scoured documents and legal decisions to trace the rise of the mysterious Pueblo League between 1700 and 1821 as the basis of Pueblo land under Spanish rule. They have also provided a detailed analysis of Pueblo lands after 1821 to determine how the Pueblos and their non-Indian neighbors reacted to the change from Spanish to Mexican and then to US sovereignty.
Characterized by success stories of protection of Pueblo land as well as by centuries of encroachment by non-Indians on Pueblo lands and resources, this is a uniquely New Mexican history that also reflects issues of indigenous land tenure that vex contested territories all over the world.
Author: Malcolm Ebright, Rick Hendricks, Richard W. Hughes
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 03/01/2015
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.00w x 1.50d
ISBN13: 9780826339720
ISBN10: 0826339727
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States | State & Local | Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
- Law | Indigenous Law