The Contested Homeland Rebecca Newell Drawing on unpublished and long-forgotten

Drawing on unpublished and long-forgotten sources

and in one of his letters

one that draws upon the skills of the educational

Double pages provide room to record a variety of data--time

is the interface between ancestors and the living

The Contested Homeland Rebecca Newell Drawing on unpublished and long-forgottenMany books deal with New Mexico's past, but the twelve original essays here reinterpret that history for the first time from a Chicano perspective. Self determination, resistance, and cultural maintenance are the recurring themes in the lives and struggles of Nuevomexicanos from 1848 to the present. On a more fundamental level, the clash has been over modernisation how the Spanish language, folk traditions, and land grants can survive as a heritage