Tierra Amarilla Land Grant
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The Tierra Amarilla Land Grant in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado consists of 594,516 acres of mountainous land. The government of New Mexico awarded it to Manuel Martinez and his offspring
Land or Death! Zapata Lives! Emiliano Zapata was a revolutionary and agrarian reformer in Mexico.
Reies Tijerina
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Reies López Tijerina, was an American activist who led a struggle in the 1960s and 1970s to restore New Mexican land grants to the descendants of their Spanish colonial and Mexican owners. As a vocal
Tierra Amarilla Land Grant
…property which had been fraudulently appropriated." He lost the court case. The Alianza Federal de Mercedes (Federal Alliance of Land Grants), led by Reies Tijerina, was founded in 1963 with the objective of reclaiming the land given to Hispanic settlers by Spanish and Mexico land grants. The Alianza confronted…
Tijerina in 1968
People's Constitutional Party campaign poster featuring Tijerina as a candidate for governor of New Mexico, 1968
Three of the "Big Four" of the Chicano movement at the Raza Unida Party's 1972 convention: Reies Lopez Tijerina, New Mexico (second from left), Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales, Colorado (center), and José Ángel Gutiérrez, Texas (far right). Cesar Chavez, California, did not attend.
Tijerina in 1972