¡Grito!
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"In the early summer of 1967 a small band of Spanish Americans raided the courthouse in a dusty town in New Mexico to publicize their claim that much of the land in the state had been stolen from their ancestors. The author, who happened to be in New Mexico at…
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The struggle for land grants in New Mexico is forever now also the story of Reies Tijerina, a man of many labels—activist, Chicano rights trail blazer, rabblerouser, charlatan, criminal. When the US annexed New Mexico during the Mexican-American War of 1847, this brought waves of opportunistic and unscrupulous Anglos onto lands worked and owned collectively by the resident Mexican-Americans, known then as Hispanos, on centuries old titles granted to them by Spain. In the 1960s, Tijerina, an itinerant Evangelical pastor, was transformed from preacher to crusader during his sojourns through the impoverished communities of northern New Mexico, hearing accounts of…