New Mexico Territory
This is a grant of public land to a family, group, community, institution, or organization.
What is a land grant?
Native Americans in NM today include members of these three tribes.
This was the top-secret project to create the atomic bomb during World War II.
What is the Manhattan Project?
The number of articles in New Mexico's state constitution.
What is 24?
This is the most scarce resource in New Mexico.
What is water?
This treaty was the agreement between the United States and Mexico to end the Mexican-American War.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo?
This is when Native Americans in NM gained the right to vote.
What is 1948?
This group sent and decoded messages using a code based on their native language.
Who were the Navajo Code Talkers?
This is the highest court in New Mexico.
What is New Mexico Supreme Court or Tribal Court?
January 6, 1912
What is the day New Mexico became a state?
This Article was stricken from the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo.
What is Article X?
This reservation is next to Lincoln National Forest.
What is the Mescalero Apache Reservation?
New Mexicans including members of the 200th Coast Artillery were taken prisoners by the Japanese during this event.
What is the Bataan Death March?
These are the qualifications to vote in New Mexico.
What is: U.S. citizen; 18 years or older; resident of NM; must be mentally competent; not serving a sentence for a felony
This is the event in which the Navajo people were forcibly relocated from their ancestral homeland to Bosque Redondo in eastern New Mexico.
What is the Long Walk?
This is the reason for land grant disputes over time.
What is "competing land grant claims"?
This Native American WWII veteran and activist was instrumental in Native Americans getting the right to vote in New Mexico.
Who is Miguel Trujillo?
The reason why most Americans knew nothing about the work of the Navajo Code Talkers for decades.
Their work was classified for decades - the code-talkers themselves could not discuss it.
This is a shared responsibility of federal and state governments.
What is making laws, establishing courts, issuing taxes, etc.
This is the reason the Dust Bowl had a harsh effect on New Mexico's economy.
Many New Mexicans were employed in farming and raising and livestock.
This group used their influence and political connections to corruptly seize land grant claims in NM.
What is the Santa Fe Ring?
These are the ways tribal members participate in government.
What is serving in tribal governments, running for legislative office, serving on school boards and other local government positions, receiving appointments in state government, etc.
These New Mexico towns were locations for Japanese-American Internment camps during World War II.
What is Lordsburg and Santa Fe?
These courts are included in New Mexico's judicial branch.
What are the state supreme court, several district courts, and a court of appeals?
This was the outcome of the Pueblo Revolt in 1680.
Spanish rule ended in the area until 1692