Without objection from the Bishop of the Diocese of Durango to which Taos and all of New Mexico and beyond then belonged—the northern frontier of the Kingdom of Spain—Padre Martínez successfully advocated for a change in the policy. Tithes were abolished by the mid 1830s. With its ...
two months after the launch of “Operation Barbarossa,”Adolf Hitler’s surprise invasion of theSoviet Union. On June 22, 1941, in defiance of a nonaggression pact signed two years earlier, some 3 million German soldiers streamed across the Soviet frontier and commenced a three-pronged attack....
As one member exclaimed, ‘As our children grow, they need land to cultivate. We’ve had to extend the agricultural frontier [on our lands]’. Focus group participants in these communities described increasing their production of short-cycle crops with quicker to-harvest times, such as rice, ...