Sisneros and Cisneros: Place-Based Community Development Among Hispanic Homesteaders in Northeast New Mexico
Author(s): Erin Hegberg
Year: 2017
Summary
In 2016 the Office of Contract Archeology surveyed 9,466 acres of private land in northeast New Mexico. The block survey included several entire homestead allotments belonging to Hispanic families between 1900 and 1940. Due to their location on private land, many of the sites are in relatively pristine condition. Analysis of the sites, architecture, and archival documents was a unique opportunity to understand how these dispersed Hispanic homesteaders relied on each other and organized into a community in one of the most rural areas of the state. Hispanic homesteaders worked together to contend with the social and economic influence of large-scale Anglo-American ranching operations, GLO bureaucracy, and the arid environment. As in other areas of the American West, homestead community development was shaped by the environmental, social, and economic aspects of place. However, this community was also strongly rooted by the connections between place and New Mexican Hispanic culture.
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Sisneros and Cisneros: Place-Based Community Development Among Hispanic Homesteaders in Northeast New Mexico. Erin Hegberg. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435245)
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Keywords
General
Hispanic communities
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Homesteading
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place
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
1900-1940
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 219