{"id":172459,"date":"2016-07-28T15:19:29","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T21:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=172459"},"modified":"2016-07-28T22:20:13","modified_gmt":"2016-07-29T04:20:13","slug":"video-talking-about-onate-and-the-effects-of-nms-history-of-bicultural-conquest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/07\/video-talking-about-onate-and-the-effects-of-nms-history-of-bicultural-conquest\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Talking about O\u00f1ate and the effects of NM&#8217;s history of bicultural conquest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2015\/07\/lets-put-onate-in-a-museum-with-the-confederate-flag\/\" target=\"_blank\">a commentary<\/a> arguing that we should memorialize Spanish conquistador Don Juan de O\u00f1ate in museums \u2013 not with statues, school and road names, and fiestas. &#8220;Spanish culture is vital to our area,&#8221; I wrote. &#8220;Let\u2019s celebrate it, but without glorifying a man who slaughtered Native people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I recently\u00a0visited the 36-foot-tall statue of O\u00f1ate in El Paso, Texas that inspired my commentary. I filmed a video to show you the Texas-sized memorial\u00a0that greets visitors to the Borderlands and talk about the issue again:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1CouNiicFkw?rel=0\" width=\"771\" height=\"434\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can read my 2015 column about O\u00f1ate <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2015\/07\/lets-put-onate-in-a-museum-with-the-confederate-flag\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. You can also read a response from\u00a0Andy Hern\u00e1ndez, an associate professor of history at Western New Mexico University, <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2015\/07\/consider-onates-legacy-thoughtfully-and-in-proper-context\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And if the video above doesn&#8217;t work, you can watch it on YouTube by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1CouNiicFkw\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heath Haussamen recently visited the 36-foot-tall statue of Spanish conquistador Don Juan de O\u00f1ate in El Paso, Texas that inspired his 2015 commentary. He filmed a video to show you the Texas-sized memorial that greets visitors to the Borderlands and talk about the issue again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":172362,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[186,204,709,143],"class_list":["post-172459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-culture","tag-history","tag-native-americans","tag-race-and-ethnicity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}