To protect settlers in new mexico, the spanish paid comanche and navajo allies to attack the who2/22/2024 I situate Indo-Hispano discourse as a rearticulation of the mestiza/o pasts of genízaro Indians, detribalized Plains and Pueblo Indian captives who were resettled into land grants as a buffer to protect the Spanish colonial interior of New Mexico from Indian raids during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Drawing from archived primary sources, this essay reconsiders Indo-Hispano as a discourse of mestizaje produced at the intersection of Tijerina's research in multiple archives of colonial law and the memories of ejido land grant tenure and loss provided by Alianza members. Yet little attention has been given to the discourse of Indo-Hispano, La Alianza's deployment of mestizaje that predates and diverges from the dominant icons and tropes of Chicana/o mestizaje. A formative organization of the Chicana/o movement in the 1960s and 1970s, La Alianza Federal is remembered for the Tierra Amarilla courthouse raid and for the political and religious activism of its president, Reies López Tijerina.
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