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Day: June 30, 2026

NEW MEXICO 1776

Source: Missions of New Mexico, 1776; edited and annotated by Eleanor B. Adams and Fray Angelico Chavez; Albuquerque, NM, University of New Mexico Press, 1954; pg. 9.

By Rob Martinez
“While the British can claim 1620 as the year of the start of English dominion over what would become the 13 colonies, Spanish language and culture, mixed with Mexican Indian, Puebloan and later arrivals such as the Navajo and Apache, were already surviving and thriving in New Mexico for over a generation.”