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Texas Historical Marker for Don Juan de Oñate and El Paso del Río Norte. In response to a bid by Juan Bautista de Lomas y Colmenares, and subsequently rejected by the King, on September 21, 1595 Philip II's Viceroy Luís de Velasco selected Oñate from two other candidates to organize the resources of the newly acquired territory. [10] [11]
La Toma (Spanish: The taking) was a significant legal declaration made by Don Juan de Oñate on April 30, 1598. This event marked the formal assertion of Spanish sovereignty over the territories north of the Rio Grande, in present-day Texas, and laid the groundwork for the colonization of New Mexico.
Juan de Oñate encountered the Escanjaque in 1601 during an expedition to the Great Plains of Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. The Escanjaques may have been identical with the Aguacane who lived along the tributaries of the Red River in western Oklahoma. If so, they were probably related to the people later known as the Wichita.
On Thanksgiving, Eddie Merlot’s will have a roasted turkey dinner ($49 per person) featuring roasted turkey, sage stuffing, brown gravy and cranberry relish. Customers have a choice of several ...
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 ...
Thanksgiving in the Tavern is also offered from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thanksgiving Day. A roasted turkey dinner with pan gravy, brioche stuffing, orange-cranberry chutney, roasted butternut squash ...
Bronze equestrian statue of Juan de Oñate by John Sherrill Houser, El Paso International Airport, 2006 Medical Education Mural by John Sherrill Houser, 1967, Oregon Health & Science University John Sherrill Houser (1935 – January 10, 2018 [ 1 ] ) was an American painter and sculptor.
She had a brother, Juan, and several sisters; one of whom was Leonor de Tolosa Cortés de Moctezuma who married Cristobal de Zaldivar, and others who were nuns in Seville, Spain. [2] In 1588 in Panuco, Zacatecas, Isabel married Don Juan de Oñate, a Spaniard of Basque ancestry and founder of Santa Fe, New Mexico. He led a group of 700 settlers ...