Stig Östlund

onsdag, juni 17, 2020

Reconsidering the Past, One Statue at a Time From Virginia to New Mexico, protests over police brutality have brought hundreds of years of American history bubbling to the surface.

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Juan de Oñate was born in Mexico around 1550. His parents, aristocrats Cristóbal de Oñate and Catalina de Salazar, were Spanish colonists and owners of a prosperous silver mine in Zacatecas, in what is now northern central Mexico. From an early age, Juan de Oñate (the title "Don" is an honorific) was involved in efforts to protect his father's mines. In his 20s, he worked to defend and expand Spanish settlements in northern Mexico by helping subdue or conquer Indian communities./Wikipedia

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