Anaya, Santiago (Albuquerque, NM)
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Publication Date
4-4-1984
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Atrisco Oral History Project (MSS 565), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University Libraries, University of New Mexico.
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Born in 1913 in La Plaza de Atrisco. Family history. After having lived his childhood and youthhood in Grants, he returned to Atrisco in 1940. Family genealogy. La Placita de San Ignacio, which does not exist anymore. The politics of land rights granted to affluent and influential people. He mentions that there was a lot of fraudulent business in the process of land distribution. A case of a company represented by Lee Evans, who ended up taking over small portions of land from small ranchers who had overdue debts so they lost portions of their land that gradually became a large extension owned by that corporation. 'Ha habido muchos fraudes en la Merced de Atrisco cometidos por los diversos comisarios de la Merced. The Heirs Land Rights and the commissioners' management. The original Merced de Atrisco stretched from the Rio Grande to Rio Puerco. Unfortunately, the original families who used to own the lands had been losing them due to the conversion of the Merced to a corporation and the control of external institutions like The First National Bank. His education just ended at 8th. grade. He worked in el 'hijadero' [ahijadero= place or prairie for raising sheep] after he graduated from 8th grade. Memories of Las Pastorelas and the Christmes [Christmas] when he was young. He participated in the Pastorelas and plays about the apparitions of La Virgen de Guadalupe. The relationship between Indians and Mexicans [New Mexican]: Los Indios de Pueblo tenían buenas relaciones con los españoles pues las otras tribus que habitaban en las sierras eran guerristas [bellicose] y el Indio de Pueblo era pacífico. The original heirs of La Merced did not pay taxes. Land was used for agriculture and farming mainly and for community progress. La Alianza de Mercedes, las acequias, and las plazas. Los Ranchos de Atrisco, originally part of Atrisco became Armijo. His views on the loss of Spanish language in the community and his childhood experiences.