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	EL NORTE - Issue 1 - Iratéo: the life of Reies López Tijerina
		When Tijerina was taken to court he served as his own lawyer against the powers of the government, and won his trial.
		And as Tijerina said, when the so-called "Liberty" Bell was welded and repaired so that it could be displayed in all its glory, it "cracked three times resisting the hypocrisy of those who were trying to raise it".
		When Tijerina was a young preacher, picking cotton from state to state, his followers gave him the name: Iratéo.
	www.unm.edu /~ecdn/ISS1Tijerina.html (614 words)

	Reies Tijerina (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Reies López Tijerina (born September 21, 1926) has been a radical leader of the Chicano movement which fought for greater rights for Mexican-Americans.
		Tijerina spent a year in Mexico researching the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; he then wrote a booklet about the rights of Hispanic-Americans under the treaty.
		In 1969, Tijerina was arrested because of his activities with Alianza; this caused a decline in his power as a leader.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Reies-Tijerina.htm (398 words)

	Reies López Tijerina's Autobiography Sheds Light on the Civil Rights Movement
		Of these four, Chávez and Tijerina were the most connected to, and involved in, grassroots community organizing, while the latter two were more dedicated to political change.
		And of these four, Tijerina was the only one to spend significant time in prison for his acts.
		What is clear from López Tijerina's testimony is his sincerity, his years of research on the issues of land grants and civil rights, and his persistent spiritual and political leadership of the disenfranchised descendants of the original colonizers of New Mexico.
	www.hispanianews.com /archive/2001/October12/01.htm (487 words)

	Reies Tijerina -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Reies López Tijerina (born September 21, 1926) has been a (A person who has radical ideas or opinions) radical leader of the (additional info and facts about Chicano) Chicano movement which fought for greater rights for Mexican-Americans.
		While living in The Valley of Peace, Tijerina learned about (A grant of public land (as to a railway or college)) land grants, a controversial issue regarding (An American whose first language is Spanish) Hispanic rights.
		Tijerina spent a year in (A Republic in southern North America; became independent from Spain in 1810) Mexico researching the (additional info and facts about Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo) Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; he then wrote a booklet about the rights of Hispanic-Americans under the treaty.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/r/re/reies_tijerina.htm (389 words)

	The Albuquerque Tribune: Local
		Reies López Tijerina, 79, the land grant activist best remembered for the 1967 raid he led on the Rio Arriba courthouse, has no regrets about the past but dim hopes for the future.
		Reies López Tijerina still gets warrior eyes when he talks about the courthouse raid, hazel eyes filled with spark and fire that burn like the tip of a fuse running down a backbone suddenly rigid with recollection and indignation.
		Tijerina says he fears that international affairs have overshadowed and reduced to insignificance domestic issues such as land grant rights and farm workers rights.
	www.abqtrib.com /albq/nw_local/article/0,2564,ALBQ_19858_3827871,00.html (975 words)

	News & Opinion: ¡Viva la Alianza! (Weekly Alibi . 06-13-97)
		Tijerina's relative was 11 when Reies Lopez Tijerina and his political party, Alianza Federal de Mercedes (Federal Alliance of Grants) became the subject of the state's largest manhunt.
		Reies Lopez Tijerina, a Spanish-American ex-evangelist with a wicked gift for captivating a crowd, tapped into the social and economic fault line created by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, the settling treaty of the Mexican-American war signed in 1848.
		Tijerina had been a migrant farm worker, had known years of Anglo prejudice and had spent years refining his Episcopal traveling reverend's skill at seizing the soul of a crowd.
	weeklywire.com /ww/06-13-97/alibi_feat1.html (1787 words)

	Aztlan
		Tijerina and his terrorist group have been advocating retaking the southwest since the mid '60s.
		Tijerina claims that this new territory is the "Nation of Aztlan" and includes California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, plus the southern part of Colorado.
		This militant rhetoric isn't restricted to Tijerina, or the "Brown Berets de Aztlan." The Aztlan movement is supported by high profile militant separatist groups that are active on high school and university campuses.
	www.propertyrightsresearch.org /aztlan.htm (936 words)

	Chapter Nineteen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Later, Reies gathered a group of families together and purchased land in Arizona (called the Valley of Peace) to begin their own community.
		Federal attorneys pressed charges against López Tijerina and on November 6, 1967, he was convicted of two counts of assault stemming from the Echo Amphitheater incident and was sentenced to two years in prison and five years probation.
		Reies eventually served concurrent sentences for assault in the Amphitheater incident and destruction of federal property, and assault on a federal officer during the occupation of the Kit Carson National Forest at the Coyote Campsite (Acuña, 1972: pp.
	www.jsri.msu.edu /museum/pubs/MexAmHist/chapter19.html (5243 words)

	Tijerina and the courthouse raid (Peter Nabokov) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Reis Tijerina has been glorified beyond the contribution he made to either an understanding between Hispanics and Whites or to the history of the southwest.
		Tijerina exposed the hypocrisy of the benevolent victors allowing the defeated Mexicans to keep their lands, when in fact conning them out of it, but that is simply the "ying" "yang" conflict of Americans attempting to follow their better angels while succumbing to greed and pettiness as mere ordinary humans.
		Tijerina was right, but he could never forgive the Americans.
	www.interference.com /webstore/us/product/0671207237.htm (170 words)

	The Albuquerque Tribune: Columnists
		On June 5, 1967, Tijerina and up to 30 members of his Alianza Federal de Mercedes rushed the courthouse in a northern New Mexico town most people call "T.A." They intended to arrest the district attorney for disrupting their meetings on ways to regain ownership of Spanish and Mexican land grants.
		For his efforts, Tijerina served 1,200 days in state and federal lockups while the powers that were pumped out message upon message disputing his land-rights claims.
		Tijerina today is an old man with the diseases and infirmities fitting his years.
	www.abqtrib.com /albq/op_columnists/article/0,2565,ALBQ_19865_3721799,00.html (672 words)

	A DISABLED VETERAN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tijerina, who believes deeply that his is a mission for truth, justice, and freedom, is a dynamic speaker and charismatic leader who by the mid-1960's had a membership of some 30,000 in the Alianza, in a very large state (fourth largest in the U.S.), with a very small population, only 2-million in the 1960's.
		Tijerina, always creative, announced that the Alianza was canceling its convention in Coyote because of the arrests, and would instead hold a "picnic" in the small village of Canjilon, about ten miles south of Tierra Amarilla.
		Reies Tijerina is, truly, one of a kind, and a legend in his own time.
	www.welshamerican.com /Rees/tiger.htm (2760 words)

	Welcome to Adobe GoLive 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Reies López Tijerina founded the Alianza Federal de Pueblos Libres (Federal Alliance of Land Grants) in New Mexico to reclaim Spanish and Mexican land grants held by Mexicans and Indians before the U.S.-Mexican War.
		In 1967 Tijerina led a raid on the Tierra Amarilla (New Mexico) County Courthouse.
		Between June of 1969 and July of 1971 Tijerina was held at a Federal prison in Springfield Missouri because of his activities with the Alianza.
	www.judybaca.com /dia/text/tijerina.html (189 words)

	Mexicans (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Reies Lopez Tijerina led the beginning of the movement.
		Tijerina opposed the government for confiscating the Mexican American land illegally.
		She says that Gonzalez was a leader like Tijerina but he also had the ability to organize people.
	www.trincoll.edu /~zemery/mexicans.htm (1443 words)

	Tijerina Family Genealogy Forum
		Re: Antonio Tijerina of Brownsville - Lucy Tijerina 4/29/01
		Re: Reies Lopez Tijerina - Sylvia Herrera 2/09/00
		Re: Reies Lopez Tijerina - Jaime Tijerina 2/10/00
	genforum.genealogy.com /tijerina (1781 words)

	Welcome to YPC! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Tijerina is presently in jail in New Mexico on charges of conspiring to overthrow U.S. and New Mexican governments, Monti Esparsa, organizer of the symposium, said.
		Tijerina is being held under $22,000 bail bond, along with 21 other defendants collectively facing 700 different charges, some of which carry the death penalty.
		Besides Tijerina, UMAS is bringing Caesar Chavez, organizer of the first farm workers union whose protest march from central California to Sacramento made national news two years ago.
	www.sscnet.ucla.edu /YPC/1960_data/docs/db_feb_9_1968_rev_will_speak_at_umas_pro.html (440 words)

	Southwest Shall Secede From U.S.
		When Truxillo was 14, he first met Reies Lopez Tijerina, leader of a group of New Mexicans who seized the courthouse in Tierra Amarilla, the Rio Arriba county seat, in 1967.
		In October, Truxillo was a speaker during a ceremony at UNM's Zimmerman Library honoring Tijerina when he contributed his personal archives to the library's Center for Southwest Research.
		At the event attended by about 300 people, Truxillo said it was from Tijerina that he had learned "that I was a member of a people with a country that had been taken from them by war, a land that was our own by treaty."
	www.unm.edu /~ecdn/tribune.html (2035 words)

	Reies Lopez Tijerina Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Reies Lopez Tijerina, one of the acknowledged major leaders of the Mexican-American Civil Rights...
		Reies Lopez Tijerina was the leader and founder of Alianza de Mercedes in the early 1960s...
		Tijerina, Reies Lopez, Reies Lopez Tijerina archive at UNM founder of Alianza Federal...
	www.biography-nfo.com /reies-lopez-tijerina-biography.html (639 words)

	The Nation, 06/01/1970 - La Raza in Revolt by Bongartz, Roy
		...Tijerina is a former hell-anddamnation evangelist who later formed '^ a desert Utopia called the Valley of Peace...
		...It was during this action that Tijerina and other Alianza rebels stormed and captured the courthouse, released their buddies, shot up the building and some police cars, shot a guard, and escaped with two hostages...
		...A year and a half later, Tijerina, acting as his own counsel, was acquitted by a jury of all charges in that raid...
	www.archive.thenation.com /Summaries/v210i0021_12.htm (1639 words)

	Tierra Amarilla, New Mexico - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		On June 5, 1967, a small band of chicanos affiliated with Alianza Federal de Mercedes led by Reies Tijerina attempted to arrest the district attorney of the county and put him on trial.
		This incident received national publicity and brought the Alianza's cause to public attention.
		Reies Tijerina and the New Mexico Land Grant War of 1967, Bobbs-Merrill Co, 1970, trade paperback, 292 pages, ISBN 0672509466; Random House, ISBN 0609024779
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tierra_Amarilla (268 words)

	Digital History
		During the 1960s, a growing number of northern New Mexico farmers, led by the Chicano activist Reies López Tijerina, began to stand up to developers who threatened to destroy their farmland and their way of life.
		A sharecropper's son who began working as a migratory farm worker at the age of seven, Tijerina knew firsthand the plight of Chicanos in rural New Mexico.
		In 1969, Tijerina was convicted of attempting a "citizen's arrest" of New Mexico's governor and the Chief Justice of the United States, Warren Burger.
	www.digitalhistory.uh.edu /mexican_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=115 (417 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		They Called Me “King Tiger” is the memoir of Reies López Tijerina, presented as a testimonial to his efforts to take back the lands obtained by North American Anglos in violation of the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo which ended the Mexican-American War.
		Reies López Tijerina, a onetime minister and traveling revivalist, founded the militant Alianza Federal de las Mercedes (the Federal Land-Grant Alliance) in 1963.
		Reies Tijerina and the New Mexico Land Grant War of 1967.
	benito.arte.uh.edu /guides/docs/RosalesTijerinasGutierrezTeachingGuide12.17.02.doc (2182 words)

	LETTER: Land grant article has errors - Daily Lobo - Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		I was very glad that the Daily Lobo published an article on the oral presentation I gave on April 24 as part of the Dolores Gonzales Colloquy Series sponsored by the Raza Graduate Student Association and the Graduate and Professional Student Association at UNM.
		The land grant rights organization founded by Tijerina called the Alianza Federal de Mercedes (the Federal Alliance of Land Grants) was organized in 1963, not 1967.
		Furthermore, I reviewed the legal interpretations and historical ramifications employed by Tijerina and those involved in the Alianza who claimed that the same basic legal principles pertaining to land ownership established under Spanish and Mexican rule should have remained in effect after 1848.
	www.dailylobo.com /media/paper344/news/2002/05/02/Opinion/Letter.Land.Grant.Article.Has.Errors-249040.shtml (459 words)

	Land grant battle focus of student's Tijerina analysis - Daily Lobo - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The legacy of Reies López Tijerina and an ongoing 150-year-old land grant battle were the focus of doctoral candidate James Barrera's discussion Wednesday during the Dolores Gonzales Colloquy Series.
		He said that the alianza was formed in 1967 by Tijerina to regain land that the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo had granted them.
		He added that Tijerina fought for justice of the lost or stolen property and became a leader in the land grant movement.
	www.dailylobo.com /media/paper344/news/2002/04/25/News/Land-Grant.Battle.Focus.Of.Students.Tijerina.Analysis-244946.shtml (480 words)

	!Que Viva El Tigre!
		Tijerina archive at the Center for Southwest Research is 2-4 p.m.
		Tijerina's demeanor is as kind and welcoming as a favorite uncle - until you
		Tijerina and his followers went to the courthouse to make a citizen's arrest
	news-reader.org /article.php?group=biz.caucus&post_nr=1260 (841 words)

	United States Government to Review New Mexico Land Grant Rights Under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo
		This is a great victory for all Nuevo Mexicanos and specially for Reies Lopez Tijerina founder of the Alianza Federal de Mercedes which in 1967 led a valiant bloody fight in Tierra Amarilla for land rights under the treaty.
		Tijerina and other leaders of land grant rights hope that the same government review occurs in California, Texas, Arizona, Colorado and other regions that were ceded by Mexico under the treaty.
		In this report, the first in a series, the U.S. government agreed to (1) define the concept of community land grants and (2) identify the types of community land grants in New Mexico that meet the definition.
	aztlan.net /treatynm.htm (1191 words)

	TIJERINA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Search the TIJERINA Family Message Boards at Ancestry.com (if available).
		Search the TIJERINA Family Resource Center at RootsWeb.com (if available).
		Find graves of people named TIJERINA at Find-a-Grave.com (or add one that you know).
	www.worldhistory.com /surname/US/T/TIJERINA.htm (73 words)

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