Monday, September 28, 2020

Why New Mexico’s 1680 Pueblo Revolt Is Echoing in 2020 Protests

Somebody once told me that New Mexico is the only state to have killed two governors, and's proud of it!

(NYTimes) ... In recent decades, commemorations of 1680 in New Mexico and Arizona were already challenging the traditional centering of early American history on the English colonies in Plymouth or Jamestown. Now Representative Deb Haaland, a member of New Mexico’s Laguna Pueblo who is one of the first Native American women elected to Congress, is among the prominent figures raising awareness about the Pueblo Revolt.
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