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skip to content new mexican hispanic culture preservation league menu home first_american don juan de onate documentation acoma war diego de vargas founding_of_albuquerque thanksgiving featured_articles opinion news_letter el_adalentado doña_eufemia_award education_award nmhcpl_video about_ us cowboy vaquero and traditional recipes pages moved to terrapatrefarms com cowboy history la jornada for the members of nmhcpl la jornada represents our deep desire to acknowledge our spanish colonial roots and surely must have been in our souls when millie santillanes ignited the flame we were invited to her home in 1998 when nmhcpl was born over 8 years a monument to honor our antepasados was conceived funded and achieved it was a journey of many twists and turns but the result is worth the effort many of us have experienced the manifestations of the black legend and members of nmhcpl are determined to correct the misinformation and educate the public on our culture the sculptures depict in life size pieces don juan de oñate leading a caravan of settlers into new mexico the art work was so large that two artists sonny rivera and betty sabo were necessary to complete the project in the amount of time allowed sonny reynaldo rivera points out that several people made personal sacrifices to move the monument forward he wants to recognize adele hundley for the courage and determination to push the monument through the city legislation sonny grew up along the camino real near las cruces and was thrilled to be able to put his talents toward a part of his heritage betty sabo made it her own personal battle to ensure that the hispanic heritage was recognized our ancestors signed on with oñate for a jornada to a better life nmhcpl is asking that you join us in recognizing what they have accomplished founding members anaya phd susana pauline cordova phd gloria de aragon max dominguez orae gonzales nicolas gonzales ramon lucero john r lucero conchita martinez david quintana richard p rodriguez robert roybal marie sanchez bernie s sanchez juanita g sanchez joseph dennis santillanes millie santillanes vidal new mexican hispanic culture preservation league mission statement the mission of the new mexican hispanic culture preservation league is to preserve the heritage spanish language and the history of hispanic new mexico to promote the education and understanding of the contributions of hispanics to the development of new mexico and the nation to protect the history of the new mexican hispanic heritage and culture to achieve this mission we promote the truth of our heritage and history and restore the pride and honor of our new mexican hispanic culture join with us we become more powerful in numbers the new mexican hispanic culture is unique in the hispanic world and the us in general it is important that our children grandchildren and future generations know hispanic culture and history it is no less important a history then that of others in the us the hispanic culture preservation league is doing it s best to have nm hispanic history acknowledged and corrected in our public schools our ancestors were prime players in new mexico s history how sad that we did not learn that in school now we and our children have a chance to learn of our connection to new mexico and others will receive a better understanding of our place in us history thanksgiving nmhcpl lobbied the nm state legislature to declare april 30 th as the first thanksgiving and in 1999 succeeded the ceremony over 400 years ago was marked by a high mass giving thanks to the lord a banquet shared with the local natives and an original play written by captain farfan de los godos nmhcpl projects a legislative bill to make don gaspar perez de villagra s epic poem published in 1610 historia de la nueva mexico the epic poem of new mexico this being helpful in educating our children on their history in a meeting with governor bill richardson the board is advised that the governor would pursue naming villagrá s poem at the state epic poem of new mexico by executive decree a requirement for graduation from a high school in new mexico two semesters of new mexico history update hb 139 requiring one half semester of new mexican history be taught passes and has been signed into law by governor bill richardson thank you to all who worked so very hard on this project samuel delgado robert rodriguez ruben salas eva torres aschenbrener and many many others who called visited and wrote letters to their legislators and the governor success after seventeen years of work a requirement for teacher certification in new mexico a three hour course in new mexico history a letter to the president of unm press concerning books published by them with unsubstantiated negative information copyright 2026 nmhcpl org powered by orae dominguez