Get Started On The Preservation Of The Village: New Mexicos Hispanics And The New Deal Narrated By Suzanne Forrest Available In Leaflet

book is wellwritten and researched with lots of footnotes for followup investigation, As a landgrant activist I would make a couple of criticisms: the land grant/acequia organization is not explained well enough and I feel the enormity of the disruption when the land was lost is underestimated.


The book focuses on New Deal programs which were intended to aid the Hispanic villages and despite some successes failed for a variety of reasons, Some officials were more interested in advocating for Native American communities, Officials also followed a topdown model, Local communities were not a part of the decisionmaking process, Racism was a factor. State officials wanted to emphasize tourism as the primary goal of economic development, The book gives a good view of the many reasons that New Mexico remains a state with high levels of poverty and underemployment, One of the most stunning to me was that land purchased by the federal government to help benefit the villagers ended up in the hands of the Forest Service, which required permits for hunting and wood collection on lands which had once been part of their ancestral land grant lands.
These heirs are some of my

best friends and I have tremendous love and respect for their perseverance, There are some references that I want to read for further information,

Some quotes:
regarding the glorification of the culture of the villages As such they were glorified in the abstract but devalued in everyday practice, I find this to be very true still, In places like Santa Fe the crafts, food, art are sought after but there is little intercultural interaction,

Similar events happened with the Gorras Blancas in lates and is aprecursor to later events A month later Hovey and other stock farmers from Cabezon again demonstrated their frustration with the government's land policies by ripping down a section of government fence and driving several hundred head of cattle onto the Espíritu Santo range.


The New Deal endeavored to preserve a preindustrial, nineteenthcentury lifestyle based upon village values or Hispanic farmers while it tried to convert them to the twentieth century cult of industrial efficiency.
Newly issued in paperback, this lively volume recounts the history of New Mexico's traditional agriculturebased Hispanic villages during the Great Depression, Long overlooked by Anglos, these communities were rediscovered and targeted for revitalization in thes by federal and state bureaucracies, New Deal programs promoted native crafts, agriculture, and communitarian values but overlooked the shortage of economic resources in New Mexico and the growing shift to modern technology in American society.
Through archival sources, government documents, oral interviews, and newspapers, the author explains the rationale behind New Deal efforts and explores their effect on New Mexico's communities,

A new epilogue analyzes federal antipoverty and revitalization programs of thes ands and grassroots cooperative movements of thes ands, William deBuys's foreword discusses the significance of this volume to our understanding of the New Deal in New Mexico, .