{"id":528156,"date":"2018-02-19T20:31:18","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T03:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=528156"},"modified":"2018-02-20T07:20:12","modified_gmt":"2018-02-20T14:20:12","slug":"when-the-victors-re-write-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/02\/when-the-victors-re-write-history\/","title":{"rendered":"When the victors re-write history"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Library of Congress<\/p>

San Miguel Church of Santa Fe is among the old adobe structures built in part by the Gen\u00edzaros people.<\/p><\/div>\n

As explorers and settlers moved west across what would become the United States in the generations before and after its birth, tribes were scattered,\u00a0pitted against one another<\/a>, and in some cases destroyed entirely. For the Gen\u00edzaros people in the Southwest, the result is a modern-day push for recognition in history books, let alone as a tribe and a distinct people.<\/p>\n

Fighting for recognition, at times for\u00a0basic humanity<\/a>, has become a part of Native identity in this country. As Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz wrote in\u00a0An<\/em>\u00a0Indigenous Peoples\u2019 History of the United<\/em>\u00a0States<\/em>, \u201cToday\u2019s Indigenous nations and communities are societies formed by their resistance to colonialism, through which they have carried their practices and histories. It is breathtaking, but no miracle, that they have survived as peoples.\u201d<\/p>\n