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Meetings
Board meetings are held on the first Wednesday of the month. Members are always welcome.
Join With Us
We become more powerful with numbers. The New Mexican Hispanic culture is unique in the Hispanic world and in the United States in general. It is important that our children, grandchildren, and future generations know New Mexico's Hispanic culture and history. It is no less important a history than that of others in the United States. The New Mexican Hispanic Culture Preservation League is doing it's best to have New Mexican Hispanic history acknowledged and corrected in our public schools. Our ancestors were prime players in New Mexico's history. It is sad that we did not learn that in school. Now we, and our children, have a chance to learn of our connection to New Mexico, and others will receive a better understanding of our place in United States history.
Annual Thanksgiving Banquet
NMHCPL lobbied the New Mexico State Legislature to declare April 30th as the First Thanksgiving, and in 1999 succeeded. Each year, henceforth, the NMHCPL banquet commemorates the Thanksgiving ceremony held by the pioneers, led by Don Juan de Oñate – Adelantado, in 1598. The ceremony held over 400 years ago was marked by a high Mass giving thanks to the Lord, a banquet shared with the local natives, and an original play written by Captain Marcos Farfán de los Godos. At our annual Thanksgiving Banquet, we take time to honor two people with our Adelantado and Doña Eufemia awards.
NMHCPL Projects
A legislative bill to make Don Gaspar Perez de Villagrá's epic poem, published in 1610, Historia de la Nueva Mexico, the epic poem of New Mexico. This being helpful in educating our children on their history.
To make two semesters of New Mexico history a requirement for graduation from a High School in New Mexico. UPDATE!! HB 139 Requiring one half semester of New Mexican History be taught, has passed and has been signed into law by Governor Bill Richardson. Thank you to all who worked so very hard on this project: Samuel Delgado, Robert Rodriguez, Ruben Salas, Eva Torres Aschenbrener and many, many others who called, visited and wrote letters to their legislators and the Governor. SUCCESS! After seventeen years of work!
To make a three-hour course in New Mexico history a requirement for teacher certification in New Mexico.
The formation of a speakers bureau.
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The Pueblo Revolt Massacre
by Rubén SálazMárquez Different authors put a spin on the 1680 San Lorenzo massacre so what are you to think if you have not read the documents? This book shows investigative comparisons so YOU will be able to decide
WHO'S TELLING THE TRUTH
Book stores selling - The Pueblo Revolt Massacre
Are:Page One, Borders, Barnes & Noble, Old Town Treasure House and The National Hispanic Culture Center The book sells for $19.99
NMHCPL hopes you will help set the public perception of
Popé and the 1680 Massacre right.
Know the facts not the fiction.
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