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Taos News is a weekly newspaper published in Taos, New Mexico. It is owned by El Crepusculo, Inc., named after the first newspaper published by Padre Martinez. The company is classified under newspaper publishing and printing manufacturers. It is estimated to have an annual revenue of $2.5 million and employs a staff of approximately 35. [1]
He negotiated a plan with Diego de Vargas, governor of New Mexico at this time, to stop the fighting between Pecos Amerindians and Taos Amerindians. The business of peace was successful for both peoples because of the need to avoid further Amerindian attacks (prior to the plan to promote the peace, the Apache seriously attacked the Pueblos, and ...
Diego de Vargas Zapata y Luján Ponce de León y Contreras (1643–1704), commonly known as Don Diego de Vargas, was a Spanish Governor of the New Spain territory of Santa Fe de Nuevo México (currently covering the modern US states of New Mexico and Arizona). He was the title-holder in 1690–1695, and effective governor in 1692–1696 and ...
On September 14, 1692, [37] de Vargas proclaimed a formal act of repossession. It was the thirteenth town he had reconquered for God and King in this manner, he wrote jubilantly to the Conde de Galve, viceroy of New Spain. [37] During the next month de Vargas visited other Pueblos and accepted their acquiescence to Spanish rule.
Nichols later returned to the United States, living in SoHo, Manhattan for a short time before settling in Taos, New Mexico in 1969. [1] Nichols was the author of the "New Mexico trilogy", a series about the complex relationship among history, race and ethnicity, and land and water rights in the fictional town of Chamisaville, New Mexico. [4]
Dec. 21—A special prosecutor has dismissed perjury charges against Rio Arriba County Commissioner Alex Naranjo and former County Manager Tomas Campos in a case involving the North Central Solid ...
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Storming of Pueblo de Taos: New Mexico: In response to a New Mexican-instigated uprising in Taos, American troops attacked the heavily fortified Pueblo of Taos with artillery, killing nearly 150 rebels, some being Indians. Between 25 and 30 prisoners were shot by firing squads. 25–30 [196] 1847: March: Rancheria Tulea massacre: California