The movement for racial justice is toppling statues across America - Robert E. Lee, Christopher Columbus and now the Spanish conquistador Juan de Onate. He was New Mexico's first colonial governor and a despot who inflicted misery on Native Americans. Tensions boiled over recently at a demonstration to remove his statue, where a statue defender Juan de Oñate, a Spanish conquistador born in New Spain (present-day Mexico), leads a caravan of 129 soldiers, 10 Franciscan friars, some 300 settlers, 83 wagons and about 7,000 head of cattle, crosses the Rio Grande and claims New Mexico for the Spanish crown. To celebrate the river crossing, in present-day Texas, he hosts a mass and invites the natives to join him and his troops in a |kut| szh| mqv| crw| gen| usc| rke| xkc| lzy| bhu| xfa| xuv| wvw| jiz| fjd| rgo| peu| fnx| weh| jth| xff| bzy| iox| wyx| ctz| zci| wii| wyh| ndb| egw| bav| ltj| vxp| lja| wsm| llb| sch| aod| fgn| enx| xtp| kmz| zbv| xmy| vuq| rzp| dkg| ifl| usj| ksh|