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An equestrian statue of Juan de Oñate formerly stood in Alcalde, New Mexico, in the United States.Installed as part of a project to honor Hispanic culture, the monument was removed in June 2020 amid the George Floyd protests. [1]
The statue was commissioned in the late 1990s, and installed on the grounds of the Albuquerque Museum in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 2004. [1] [2] It was removed by the city in June 2020.
As the scope of the protests broadened to include other forms of systemic racism, many statues of other controversial figures such as Christopher Columbus, [3] [4] Junípero Serra, Juan de Oñate and Kit Carson were torn down or removed. Monuments to many other local figures connected with racism were also targeted by protestors.
The statue of Oñate, who established the colony of New Mexico over 400 years ago, initially stood in the neighboring city of Alcalde, but was taken down in 2020 after protests demanding its removal.
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 ...
Apr. 18—It was an emotional June afternoon when Rio Arriba County workers removed a statue of Juan de Oñate from its pedestal in Alcalde — some cheered and danced, while others screamed curses.
Juan de Oñate y Salazar (Spanish: [ˈxwan de oˈɲate] ⓘ; 1550–1626) was a Spanish conquistador from New Spain, explorer, and viceroy of the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México in the viceroyalty of New Spain.
The northern county of Rio Arriba postponed a Thursday reinstatement ceremony after activists occupied a concrete pedestal in the city of Espanola, where the statue of Juan de Onate was set to be ...