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The statue was completed in early 2006, transported in pieces on flatbed trailers to El Paso during the summer, and installed in October. The controversy over the statue prior to its installation was the subject of the documentary film The Last Conquistador, presented in 2008 as part of PBS's P.O.V. television series. [43] [44]
Conquistador; List of explorers; Spanish colonization of the Americas; List of conquistadors in Colombia; ... This page was last edited on 29 December 2024, ...
Juan de Oñate, is sometimes referred to as "the Last Conquistador", [55] expanded Spanish sovereignty over what is now New Mexico. [56] Like previous conquistadors, Oñate engaged in widespread abuses of the Indian population. [c] Shortly after founding Santa Fe, Oñate was recalled to Mexico City by the Spanish authorities. He was ...
In 2020, a man was shot in New Mexico’s largest city, Albuquerque, as protestors tried to tear down a bronze statue of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate outside a city museum.. Police later ...
The conquistador Juan Ponce de León (Santervás de Campos, Valladolid, Spain). He was the first European to arrive at the current U.S. and led the first European expedition to Florida, which he named. Statue of Cabeza de Vaca in Houston, Texas. During the 1500s, the Spanish began to travel through and colonize North America.
The Last Conquistador, an hour-long PBS documentary produced by John Valadez and Cristina Ibarra, featuring the artist and the controversy surrounding Don Juan de Oñate was shown nationally on POVTV, July 15, 2008.
One of his sons, Juan de Oñate, married Isabel de Tolosa Cortes-Moctezuma, granddaughter of conquistador Hernán Cortés and greatgranddaughter of the last Aztec Emperor Moctezuma Xocoyotzin. Juan became an explorer of western North America and founder of the first Spanish settlement on the upper Rio Grande in the present U.S. state of New Mexico.
Hernando de Soto (/ d ə ˈ s oʊ t oʊ /; [2] Spanish: [eɾˈnando ðe ˈsoto]; c. 1497 – 21 May 1542) was a Spanish explorer and conquistador who was involved in expeditions in Nicaragua and the Yucatan Peninsula.