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RESOURCES

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BOOKS:

 

FICTION:

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Death Comes For The Archbishop - Willa Cather

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The Wind Leaves No Shadow - Ruth Laughlin

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Laughing Boy - Oliver Lafarge (Pulitzer Prize)

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The Pot Thief Mystery Series - J. Michael Orenduff

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Books set in Santa Fe: 

https://www.goodreads.com/places/289-santa-fe-new-mexico

 

The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop - Garrett Peck (2026)

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NON-FICTION

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The Night Journal - Elizabeth Crook

 

By Joe Sando (Native Author):

- Pueblo Nations: Eight Centuries of Pueblo Indian History

- Po’pay: Leader of the First American Revolution

- Nee Hemish: A History of Jemez Pueblo

- The Pueblo Indians

- Pueblo Profiles: Cultural Identity Through Centuries of Change

 

Isabella of Spain: The Last Crusader - William Thomas Walsh

 

At the End of the Santa Fe Trail -  Blandina Segale

 

Caballeros: The Romance of Santa Fe and the Southwest, Facsimile of the Revised 1945 Edition - Ruth Laughlin

 

Indian Boyhood - Charles Eastman

 

Conquistadores: A New History of Spanish Discovery and Conquest - Fernando Cervantes

 

Kiva, Cross & Crown - Kessel

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My Penitente Land - Chavez

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The Last Conquistador - Marc Simmons

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The Pueblo Revolt -  David Roberts

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The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 - Knaut

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The Rediscovery of America from Native Perspective - Ben Nighthawk (Native author)

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White Water Shell Place - Anthology of Native American Reflections on the 400th Anniversary of the Founding of Santa Fe (Native authors)

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Down Country - New Mexico, Galisteo Basin History

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1491 & 1493, Two books by Charles C. Mann

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BOOKS BY ANA PACHECO ~ SANT FE HISTORIAN, TOUR-GUIDE

 

All Roads Lead To Santa Fe -  LaFarge

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Turn Left At The Sleeping Dog - John Pen La Farge

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Blood & Thunder

 

Scholar of the City Different

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Sustaining The Divine in Mexico Tenochtitlan - Jonathan Truitt

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Miera Y Pacheco, A Renaissance Spaniard in Eighteenth Century New Mexico - John L Kessel

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Adobe Conservation -  cstones.org

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When Montezuma met Cortez - Matthew Restall

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The Conquest of New Spain - Bernal Diaz

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Converging Streams - 

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Seven Myth of the Spanish Conquest - Matthew Restall

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FILMS:

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Milagro Beanfield War (Robert Redford, fiction)

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The Genizaro Experience (Gary Medina Cook) - PBS documentary 2023

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However Wide The Sky: Native Places of Power - PBS documentary

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Salt of the Earth (1954 film)

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History of the Buffalo - Ken Burns - PBS

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Youtube: Canes of Power

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Youtube series: Robert Martinez, NM State Historian, 10 minute episodes

 

 

 

New Mexico Documentaries on YouTube: https://www.google.com/search?

client=safari&sca_esv=583077499&rls=en&tbm=vid&q=documentaries+about+ne

w+mexico&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiYrdmumcmCAxUHOTQIHQMGAUcQ8ccDegQIF

RAJ&biw=882&bih=528&dpr=2

Official website for the chapel, with an introduction to the chapel’s history, art, and

preservation projects. This website is a good introduction to the chapel.

https://www.sanmiguelchapelsantafe.org/

 

National Park Service history of San Miguel, with historic pictures.

http://www.npshistory.com/publications/kessell/nm-missions/san_miguel.htm

In addition to a high-level overview of the chapel, this page includes current and future

events and plans for the chapel.

https://santafeselection.com/blog/2020/03/12/san-miguel-chapel-history-community/

 

Succinct description of the history of the San Miguel Chapel.

https://santafe.com/san-miguel-chapel/

 

A New Era for Santa Fe’s San Miguel Chapel? by Julianne Burton-Carvajal, Ph.D.

Magazine article highlights of the chapel history and art.

https://issuu.com/greenfiretimes/docs/gftdec2018 pages 7-9

 

 

 

Barrio de Analco Historic District.

The National Park Service introduction to the history of the Barrio de Analco.

https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/american_latino_heritage/

barrio_de_analco_historic_district.html

The San Miguel Mission Bell. by Ana Pacheco, author and descendent of Diego de

Vargas.

https://historyinsantafe.com/san-miguel-mission-bell/

https://historyinsantafe.com/

 

San Jose Bell—Cast of Copper, Silver and Gold. Recounts the legend of the bell’s

origins.

https://blog.artgeek.io/2019/03/23/san-jose-bell-cast-of-copper-and-silver-and-gold/

 

Discover the Oldest Church in the US. The second half of this article describes each of

the major pieces of art in the chapel. Written by an artist.

https://blog.artgeek.io/2019/03/23/discovering-the-oldest-church-in-the-u-s-san-miguel-

chapel-santa-fe-nm/

 

Early Spanish Expansion into Indigenous Lands

THE ENCOMIENDA IN NEW MEXICO,

1598-1680 by H. ALLEN ANDERSON

This article describes the “encomienda”, imperial Spain’s colonial policy that

institutionalized slavery by allocating ownership of subjugated people and lands to those

who participated in the conquest. The article examines the impact of the encomienda on

Pueblo Indians and the part the encomienda played in their subsequent revolt in 1680.

https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2691&context=nmhr

 

“WE MEXICAS WENT EVERYWHERE IN THAT LAND”: THE MEXICAN INDIAN

DIASPORA IN THE GREATER SOUTHWEST, 1540-1680 by Travis Jeffress

Dissertation on the indigenous experience of imperial Spain, with a reexamination of the

relationship between meso-american “allies” and Spanish colonizers. Chapter five

addresses events in the Barrio Analco and discusses the possible relationships between

the Spanish and Nahua.

https://rucore.libraries.rutgers.edu/rutgers-lib/59088/PDF/1/play/

 

Tlaxcalan (“tlash- calan”)