1906
Sacred-land dispossessionBook sources
Taos Blue Lake placed under federal forest control
New Mexico; Taos Pueblo
Federal control deprived Taos Pueblo of secure authority over sacred land central to religious life. A decades-long campaign sought its return.
Dates preserve the source’s precision. This entry is part of a selected historical record; its qualifications and sources are retained below.
Context / qualification
Returned in 1970; cross-reference that redress entry.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 10