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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T
SPONSOR Lujan
ORIGINAL DATE
LAST UPDATED
2/10/08
HM 67
SHORT TITLE
"Santa Fe Four Hundredth Anniversary Day"
SB
ANALYST Shaya
SOURCES OF INFORMATION
LFC Files
SUMMARY
Synopsis of Bill
House Memorial 67 declares that Sunday, February 10, 2008 be declared "Santa Fe Four
Hundredth Anniversary Day" at the New Mexico House of Representatives and that
congratulations be expressed to the residents of Santa Fe and gratitude be expressed to the
surrounding pueblo communities for the commemoration of the four-hundred-year establishment
of Santa Fe as a villa; and that the pueblo people and the citizens of Santa Fe be invited and
encouraged to participate in ceremonies of reconciliation and mutual recognition in furtherance
of the more than four-hundred-year history of Santa Fe; and that copies of this memorial be
transmitted to the mayor and city council of the city of Santa Fe and to the governors and tribal
councils of all the pueblos of New Mexico and to the other surrounding Native American tribes.
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS
No Fiscal Impact.
SIGNIFICANT ISSUES
House Memorial 67 further explains that;
Before 1598, the pueblo people of the Rio Grande region of New Mexico had inhabited
the area now officially known as La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asis,
commonly called Santa Fe, for hundreds of years; and
From the first arrival of New Mexico's Spanish colonists in August of 1598, the pueblo
people of the Rio Grande and adjoining regions of New Mexico provided support and
sustenance to those colonists, which allowed the colonists to persevere at San Gabriel del
Yunque, the first villa and capital of New Mexico located in the pueblo lands of Okeh
Owinge, as well as at other small outlying settlements; and
From the time of 1607, there existed a small settlement of Spanish colonists in that same
area; and
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On March 30, 1609, the viceroy of New Spain, Martin Lopez de Gauna, upon the
appointment of Don Pedro de Peralta as governor and captain general of New Mexico,
ordered Governor Peralta to arrive in New Mexico before the end of 1609 and to
establish a villa at the site of what is now Santa Fe; and
By 1610, Governor Peralta had established his villa at the site of what is now Santa Fe;
and
The pueblo people of New Mexico became part of the extended community of the
Spanish colonists, providing a pool for intermarriage and becoming a source, both
willingly and unwillingly, of labor and economic support for the colonists; and
The Spanish colonists and the pueblo people engaged in a two-way exchange of
knowledge and cultural folkways that would be mutually advantageous for both peoples;
and
Seventy years following the establishment of the villa of Santa Fe, the pueblo people took
up arms and forced the inhabitants of the villa to retreat to El Paso in what was then
southern New Mexico; and
In 1692, the Spanish colonists began a return to the villa, which, following an initial
peaceful return, resulted in an armed conflict lasting through 1696; and
Following the repopulation of Santa Fe and reinstitution of Spanish government in New
Mexico, the pueblo people found ways to protect their traditional ways while adapting to
the Spanish form of government and continuing the process of mutual cultural
interchange and support; and
Over the following years into the twentieth century and despite intermittent disputes, the
colonists and their descendants, many of whom were and are tied by blood to the pueblo
people and other surrounding Native American tribes, and the pueblo people and other
surrounding Native American tribes formed alliances and accommodated each other's
cultures, allowing Santa Fe to flourish; and
The peaceful acceptance of each other's cultures continued through the United States'
conquest of New Mexico during the war with Mexico and contributed to the evolution of
Santa Fe's cultural heritage, and it resulted in the recognition by the state and federal
governments of the sovereignty rights of the pueblo people, including their rights to self-
government; and
During the period of 2008 through 2010, Santa Fe shall proudly observe the four-
hundred-year anniversary of its settlement and subsequent founding as a villa and its
multicultural heritage with suitable events and observances by the residents of Santa Fe
to commemorate its first four hundred years and to pass on to future generations the Indo-
Hispano heritage of Santa Fe and the surrounding region; and
It is important that the commemoration provide a foundation for healing the past and
opening the way for a permanent reconciliation between the descendants of Santa Fe's
Spanish colonists and the pueblo peoples and surrounding Native American tribes as well
as the descendants of all of the other Santa Fe settlers who have contributed to Santa Fe's
multicultural heritage;
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