In La Toma (Taking Possession), Oñate re-affirmed that Indian land and water rights were recognized and protected by the Crown. The city renamed the statue "The Equestrian," trying to make it less controversial. Cristo Rey and UTEP, which he named El Paso del Rio del Norte â or The Pass of the River of the North. Except that most readers may only be aware of the controversies at City Hall in 2003, where the name was …
EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14) — Across the southwest region, statues of a Spanish conquistadors have been the center of vandalism and protests. Some of the contributions of these first Hispanic pioneers and subsequent expeditions to North America are the introduction of the Spanish language, Christianity, European musical instruments, farming and mining equipment, spices, cookware, fruit tree cuttings, seeds and domestic animals, that included cattle, pigs, and goats. They are located in or near a city plaza where hundreds of Pueblo men were lynched following the Pueblo revolt.For Ortiz, of the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, what’s “finally” happening in New Mexico, reflects the larger national momentum around the issue of structural racism.“I think it signifies a shift in consciousness,” she said. An erasure of indigenous people.” .Oñate, New Mexico’s first colonial governor, is likely the most controversial figure of all. The colonists had reason to celebrate after an arduous 700 mile journey, which began in the town of Santa Barbara, Chihuahua, Mexico in January, 1598. ALBUQUERQUE — John Sherrill Houser, a sculptor whose work includes a statue depicting conquistador Don Juan de Oñate in El Paso that divided residents along ethnic and social class lines, has died. The statue known as The Equestrian, depicting Juan de Oñate, is one component of a planned series of a dozen sculptures intended to attract tourism and development to El Paso. Most dramatic historically among the livestock introduced on the Oñate expedition was the horse â war horses and mares --which became so culturally vital to Native Americans in subsequent years.The expedition consisted of dozens of families, 10 Franciscan missionaries, servants and 129 soldiers â a three mile long caravan that included thousands of livestock and more than 100 rumbling carts. In 1998, someone sawed the right foot off the statue.“There are as many Hispanics, Latinos and Chicanos who are against this as there are Native Americans,” said Elena Ortiz, who organized a protest at the site for Monday night.
1550–1626) Gerald F. Kozlowski Biography Juan de Oñate, explorer and founder of the first European settlements in the upper Rio Grande valley of New Mexico, son of Cristóbal de Oñate and Catalina de Salazar, was born around 1550, most likely in …
Cats out of the bag doesn’t go back in, libs asked for it, you’ll get it.Oh oh. and Evelyn McKee, pioneer El Pasoans who contributed greatly to the foundation upon which our city was built.Founder of the Camino Real, Colonizer of the American Southwest and The First Governor of New Mexico, 1598.April 10, 2001 -The McKee Foundation pledged $390,000 to the project with the stipulation that the monument be dedicated in the memory of R.E. Thirst and hunger were ever present as they struggled north through the Chihuahuan desert.
In November of 2003, because of controversy, the name was changed to "The Equestrian".Monumental Onate horse head , Canyon Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico.The 36 foot monument was created for 6 years in a Mexico City Enlarging studio by the sculptors and a crew of 5 master craftsmen. Oñate and his family had a culturally diverse background.
Hallelujah! In November of 2003, the El Paso International Airport assumed the balance of $780,000.00 to complete the project. The monument arrived in El Paso for storage in an El Paso airport hanger on April 28, 2006 to await the completion of the base.
And it was all triggered by the slaughter of so many black people.”,Armed vigilantes under scrutiny after statue protester shot in New Mexico.Than Tsídéh, 19, of the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo dances on the empty platform where a statue of Juan de Oñate was removed.Protesters surround a statue of Juan De Oñate, known for ordering the massacre of 800 Indigenous people, in Rio Arriba county, New Mexico.The Juan De Oñate sculpture is defaced with paint following a protest.Acoma Pueblo Indians American Horse, right, and Channing Concho take a picture with the Juan De Oñate monument. “Symbols are important, they shape the way we ingest the world … In reclaiming these symbols, we get a chance to tell a side of history that has been left out of the books.”.Over his shoulder, Than Tsídéh, a 19-year old from the nearby Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, danced and sang atop the newly vacant platform.Yet the violence accompanying these protests is a reminder that, as elsewhere in the country, this historical reckoning is contentious.A few hours after Pena spoke with the Guardian, trouble erupted in Albuquerque, when a.The push to remove contested monuments began in the southern US, where 10 Confederate monuments have been removed in less than a month, according to Lecia Brooks, outreach director for the Southern Poverty Law Center, and four other removals are pending.
Yet El Paso's statue of Don Juan de Oñate is not an isolated problem. El Paso, Texas: Controversial Conquistador Statue Massive, 36-foot-tall statue of conquistador Don Juan de Onate. The statue, first proposed in the mid-1990s, is of a horse-riding Spanish conquistador named Don Juan de Oñate.