(Source: University of Oklahoma Press)
The University of Oklahoma Press is publishing
a new book on how Pueblo Indian communities have defended their sovereignty,
and land and water rights.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Over five centuries of foreign rule—by
Spain, Mexico, and the United States—Native American pueblos have confronted
attacks on their sovereignty and encroachments on their land and water rights.
How five New Mexico and Texas pueblos did this, in some cases multiple times,
forms the history of cultural resilience and tenacity chronicled in Pueblo
Sovereignty by two of New Mexico’s most distinguished legal historians, Malcolm
Ebright and Rick Hendricks.
Extending their award-winning work Four
Square Leagues, Ebright and Hendricks focus here on four New Mexico Pueblo
Indian communities—Pojoaque, Nambe, Tesuque, and Isleta—and one now in Texas,
Ysleta del Sur. The authors trace the complex tangle of conflicting
jurisdictions and laws these pueblos faced when defending their extremely
limited land and water resources. The communities often met such challenges in
court and, sometimes, as in the case of Tesuque Pueblo in 1922, took matters
into their own hands. Ebright and Hendricks describe how—at times aided by
appointed Spanish officials, private lawyers, priests, and Indian agents—each
pueblo resisted various non-Indian, institutional, and legal pressures; and how
each suffered defeat in the Court of Private Land Claims and the Pueblo Lands
Board, only to assert its sovereignty again and again.
Although some of these defenses led to
stunning victories, all five pueblos experienced serious population declines.
Some were even temporarily abandoned. That all have subsequently seen a return
to their traditions and ceremonies, and ultimately have survived and thrived,
is a testimony to their resilience. Their stories, documented here in
extraordinary detail, are critical to a complete understanding of the history
of the Pueblos and of the American Southwest.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Malcolm
Ebright is a historian, an attorney, and the director of the Center for Land
Grant Studies. He is a coauthor with Rick Hendricks of the award-wining Four
Square Leagues: Pueblo Indian Land in New Mexico.
Rick
Hendricks is the New Mexico State Historian. He holds a Ph.D. in Ibero American
Studies from the University of New Mexico. He has written or collaborated on
numerous books and articles on the Spanish colonial period in the American
Southwest and Mexico. He is coauthor of The Witches of Abiquiu: The Governor,
the Priest, the Genízaro Indians, and the Devil.
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