Keeping It Local: Looking Inward at the Land Grant Community of San José de las Huertas

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Founded in 1765 in the foothills northeast of Albuquerque, San José de las Huertas was the byproduct of Spanish imperial policy and the aims of largely landless families and a category of people known as genízaros to make better lives for themselves. The crafting of this community, and its accompanying identity, amidst a mix of ethnic, class, gender, and kinship relations was an important part of negotiating daily life in a landscape considered to be both part of the Spanish borderlands and within the sphere of the Rio Grande Pueblos. Using data collected from archaeological, archival, and oral historical sources, this paper considers the underpinnings of Las Huertan identity by focusing on the local and exploring the internal structure of the community.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Hill People: New Research on Tijeras Canyon and the East Mountains   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 37068.0