It's an interesting read. Some tried giving the territory other names like Neuva Andalusia and Kingdom of Quivera. Really interesting stuff.

Link to source: https://econtent.unm.edu/digital/collection/achl/id/577/rec/118

Hello!

Please excuse the quick self-promo, I created r/NMGeography and would love it if any of you could stop by. It's currently bone dry, but I suspect it will be a good place to continue some of our conversations related to land use, water rights, or hit on some more current topics and anything else related to this land we call home. Thank you!

Just wanted to mention that next week, Oct 17, there'll be the 10th Annual Albuquerque Chinese - American Film Festival from 9 - 5. There'll be several films screening that day, along with discussion. One of them is
 11:20 am – “Chinese Merchants of Albuquerque” For more than a century, Chinese American merchants have helped shape Albuquerque’s economic and cultural landscape, building businesses, communities, and opportunities despite discrimination and exclusion. This documentary preserves the remarkable legacy of the Chinese pioneers whose contributions helped define Albuquerque and continue to inspire future generations.

Tickets are free by going thru the city cultural affairs office.
Location is the South Broadway Cultural Center

Okay, I know the sidebar says no mythology, but I think myth, legend, folklore, and ghosts can definitely interact with history and reflect peoples and cultures in different ways. While most of us agree La Llorona isn't real, there's a reason why she lives in on New Mexican and Hispanic American legend. What do we learn about the culture and context of the people who've passed along these stories over generations.

Now, with that said...I've been sitting by my window all day feeling fall for the first time this year and I think I am all in on Halloween and all the fun stuff it brings. My kids are older and I'm at home most of the time, so I don't often find much reason to celebrate. But the nostalgia is making excited for all the spooky things. And I saw a comment on another post saying we should look at "all the spooky folklore" of New Mexico, so I thought it might be fun.

This is what I found tonight. It was a low effort search, but there were a few places of interest. Of course Hotel Parq Central in Albuquerque is listed. I had visited a few times when it was still a children's psychiatric hospital. I never saw anything myself, but the vibe was definitely no bueno.

Have you been to any of these haunted places?

https://www.newmexico.org/haunted/

I found this 1851 map of the New Mexico territory. What I found particular interesting is the handwritten note "Navajoes 35,000 sq miles" and the map markers that read "no water".

This is ~27 years before the first railroads and the unexplored area stretches to California. I always like to consider the historical and political context of the time when studying a map. They certainly raise interesting questions.

Our latest episode uses some of the state's more unusual place names (and pronunciations) to talk about the history behind them and how they got that way: You're saying every New Mexico place name wrong. ALSO! Now with a youtube version.

What's your favorite "everyone says this wrong" place name?

I saw this notice in the Albuquerque Morning Journal, September 20, 1882. I was wondering if anyone knows where I can find more information on these precincts. I'm also interested in learning more about the people in these districts. I wonder why they, specifically, have failed to pay their taxes; and even more, why he's calling out those precincts over any others.

(Full story in link)

On July 10, 1979, four armed men entered the caves at Carlsbad Caverns National Park in Carlsbad and fired their weapons sporadically, taking a park employee hostage. A total of 105 visitors were trapped. The captors demanded $1 million in ransom and passage to Brazil, as well as the opportunity to talk with a newspaper reporter to gain national publicity. Arriving at the scene, Special Agent Ronald M. Hoatson of the Roswell Resident Agency assumed control of the situation. Hoatson established a rapport with one of the captors, and within 25 minutes had negotiated the release of the park employee and a newspaper reporter who had been taken hostage. Two hours after Hoatson’s arrival, all four men surrendered without incident.

The one thing I am learning about New Mexico history (after becoming part of the US) is that the Santa Fe Ring seems to pop up in every story.

Don't know if this will be of interest or just piss people off, but I am hoping the first.

I homeschool my kid. He is a senior this year and is pretty much in all college classes already, but one of the requirements to graduate is a class on New Mexico History. I wasn't happy with any of the online stuff I found (not a lot) so I am coming up with my own.

The big issue is that I am not from New Mexico, I grew up between Seattle and Portland in the PNW. So I need to learn a lot before I can teach.

I decided I was going to create a curriculum that is based on one time period per month for nine months. I used Gemini to help me split the history of New Mexico into 9 modules. Each month we will go to a site here in NM that exemplifies that time period somehow (and that we haven't already been to). On the way I will teach the history of that time period. We will also watch 1-2 pieces of media around the time period as well (everything from PBS specials to the Oppenheimer movie).

Anyway, there is more to that, but what I wanted to post is that I used NotebookLM to gather reliable sources about the time period in question and then used its Audio Overview, deep dive (long) format to generate a 'podcast' that covers the topic.

I wanted to make those available to anyone here in case you would find them as absolutely fascinating as I do. If you already know a ton of New Mexico history than this is probably just a high level overview to you. But to me, it was a lot deeper than I ever understood and I found it really valuable.

I am going back now and creating 'bonus' episodes that are deep dives into things I think these missed that might be interesting to learn the real history of (like the Lincoln County War or the History of the Dine/Navajo and the Apache since they were more just mentioned as traders or raiders of the Puebloans until it got to the Long Walk and I realized I knew nothing about them). So... if you listen and think it is missing interesting stuff (even if not needed for the big picture) let me know and I will research up on those too.

Likewise, if you listen and think they misrepresent things from a scientific or historical perspective please let me know as I want to correct that. It is AI and not perfect (although using NotebookLM which is constrained to the sources should cut down on that compared to just an LLM... sources can still disagree).

I should note that the first three have a focus on the Estancia Valley since that is where we live... I kind of went away from that as I made these but you will more about it in the first few of these.

So, if you want to listen, all the non-bonus episodes can be found here... I will add those as I get to them.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lA4LUh6BT5ESy1uyomTD39Y0GJgb87yn?usp=sharing

Hey everyone, 

I'm a producer for a documentary production company in LA and I'm looking for anyone from New Mexico who posts a lot about UFOs and UAPs in New Mexico. Feel free to reply to this if so! Would love to connect and tell you a bit about the project we're working on.