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UNM Press, faculty to receive 2021 State Heritage Preservation Award


Jamie Bronstein and the New Mexico Historical Review, Heritage Publication
Community of Duran, Community Organization
Santa Fe County, Architecture
Nación Genízara explores the origin, cultural evolution, and survival of the Genízaro people. It was the winner of the 2021 Heritage Publication Award from the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division and the second-place winner of the 2020 International Latino Book Award for Best History Book.
Historian Fray Angélico Chávez defined Genízaro as the ethnic term given to indigenous people of mixed tribal origins living among the Hispano population in Spanish fashion. They were captured during wars with Utes, Apaches, Comanches, Kiowas, Navajos and Pawnees and were brought to colonial society as captives. By 1800, Genízaros made up a third of the population. Many in the land-grant societies assimilated into Hispano and Pueblo society, while others retained their identity through custom, self-government, and kinship ....

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