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F I S C A L I M P A C T R E P O R T

SPONSOR Griego

ORIGINAL DATE

LAST UPDATED

2/10/08

HB

SHORT TITLE

"Santa Fe Four Hundredth Anniversary Day"

SM 63

ANALYST Shaya

Duplicates HM 67.

SOURCES OF INFORMATION

LFC Files

SUMMARY

Synopsis of Bill

Senate Memorial 63 declares that Sunday, February 10, 2008 be declared "Santa Fe Four

Hundredth Anniversary Day" at the New Mexico Senate and that congratulations be expressed to

the residents of Santa Fe and gratitude be expressed to the surrounding pueblo communities for

the commemoration of the four-hundred-year establishment of Santa Fe as a villa; and that the

pueblo people and the citizens of Santa Fe be invited and encouraged to participate in

ceremonies of reconciliation and mutual recognition in furtherance of the more than four-

hundred-year history of Santa Fe; and that copies of this memorial be transmitted to the mayor

and city council of the city of Santa Fe and to the governors and tribal councils of all the pueblos

of New Mexico and to the other surrounding Native American tribes.

FISCAL IMPLICATIONS

No Fiscal Impact.

SIGNIFICANT ISSUES

Senate Memorial 63 further explains that;

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Before 1598, the pueblo people of the Rio Grande region of New Mexico had inhabited

the area now officially known as La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asis,

commonly called Santa Fe, for hundreds of years; and

•

From the first arrival of New Mexico's Spanish colonists in August of 1598, the pueblo

people of the Rio Grande and adjoining regions of New Mexico provided support and

sustenance to those colonists, which allowed the colonists to persevere at San Gabriel del

Yunque, the first villa and capital of New Mexico located in the pueblo lands of Okeh

Owinge, as well as at other small outlying settlements; and

Senate Memorial 63 – Page

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From the time of 1607, there existed a small settlement of Spanish colonists in that same

area; and

•

On March 30, 1609, the viceroy of New Spain, Martin Lopez de Gauna, upon the

appointment of Don Pedro de Peralta as governor and captain general of New Mexico,

ordered Governor Peralta to arrive in New Mexico before the end of 1609 and to

establish a villa at the site of what is now Santa Fe; and

•

By 1610, Governor Peralta had established his villa at the site of what is now Santa Fe;

and

•

The pueblo people of New Mexico became part of the extended community of the

Spanish colonists, providing a pool for intermarriage and becoming a source, both

willingly and unwillingly, of labor and economic support for the colonists; and

•

The Spanish colonists and the pueblo people engaged in a two-way exchange of

knowledge and cultural folkways that would be mutually advantageous for both peoples;

and

•

Seventy years following the establishment of the villa of Santa Fe, the pueblo people took

up arms and forced the inhabitants of the villa to retreat to El Paso in what was then

southern New Mexico; and

•

In 1692, the Spanish colonists began a return to the villa, which, following an initial

peaceful return, resulted in an armed conflict lasting through 1696; and

•

Following the repopulation of Santa Fe and reinstitution of Spanish government in New

Mexico, the pueblo people found ways to protect their traditional ways while adapting to

the Spanish form of government and continuing the process of mutual cultural

interchange and support; and

•

Over the following years into the twentieth century and despite intermittent disputes, the

colonists and their descendants, many of whom were and are tied by blood to the pueblo

people and other surrounding Native American tribes, and the pueblo people and other

surrounding Native American tribes formed alliances and accommodated each other's

cultures, allowing Santa Fe to flourish; and

•

The peaceful acceptance of each other's cultures continued through the United States'

conquest of New Mexico during the war with Mexico and contributed to the evolution of

Santa Fe's cultural heritage, and it resulted in the recognition by the state and federal

governments of the sovereignty rights of the pueblo people, including their rights to self-

government; and

•

During the period of 2008 through 2010, Santa Fe shall proudly observe the four-

hundred-year anniversary of its settlement and subsequent founding as a villa and its

multicultural heritage with suitable events and observances by the residents of Santa Fe

to commemorate its first four hundred years and to pass on to future generations the Indo-

Hispano heritage of Santa Fe and the surrounding region; and

•

It is important that the commemoration provide a foundation for healing the past and

opening the way for a permanent reconciliation between the descendants of Santa Fe's

Spanish colonists and the pueblo peoples and surrounding Native American tribes as well

as the descendants of all of the other Santa Fe settlers who have contributed to Santa Fe's

multicultural heritage;

RS/nt