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Since 1493, the Kingdom of Spain had maintained a number of missions throughout Nueva España (New Spain, consisting of what is today Mexico, the Southwestern United States, the Florida and the Luisiana, Central America, the Spanish Caribbean and the Philippines) in order to preach the gospel to these lands.
In 1530 the missionary priest and confessor to the Spanish king's Vasco de Quiroga, arrived in the capital of New Spain in order to be part of the Viceroyalty of the government through the Second Audience as auditor, this experiment Fees graduate firsthand the neglect and exposure to indigenous people lived, especially Mexica that most had left children orphaned and wives widowed.
Pedro de Peralta (c. 1584 – 1666) was Governor of New Mexico between 1610 and 1613 at a time when it was a province of New Spain. He formally founded the city of Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1610. In August 1613 he was arrested and jailed for almost a year by the Franciscan friar Isidro Ordóñez.
Dec. 16—One writer called them "dances of mystery" — public performances cloaked in a sense of privacy. The traditional cultural dances performed by many of New Mexico's pueblos around ...
San Estévan del Rey Mission Church is a Spanish mission church in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gallup on the Acoma Pueblo Reservation in western New Mexico. Built between 1629 and 1641, it is one of the finest extant examples of hybrid Spanish Colonial and Puebloan architectural styles. It was named for Saint Stephen I of Hungary.
The San Agustin de la Isleta Mission was founded on the older pueblo, on the west bank of the Rio Grande about 13 miles (21 km) south of Albuquerque. The original Isleta (i.e. islet) was so named by the Spaniards from its position on a tongue of land projecting into the stream; the native name, Shiewhibak, seems to refer to a knife used in ...
In 2016, Al Hurricane Jr. had released a song titled "La Fiesta de Santa Fe". During the first full Fiesta since the pandemic, held in 2022, the bandstand featured him, and other New Mexico music performances; by musicians including Sangre Joven, Divino, The Dwyane Ortega Band, and dances from Indigenous Pueblo Dancers, Los Matachines de ...
The Federation of Parties of the Mexican People (Spanish: Federación de Partidos del Pueblo Mexicano) was a federation of socialist political parties that existed from 1945 to 1954. The alliance was founded by Genovevo de la O, a former Zapatista commander, in 1945.