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Popular General Tips | Other General Tips Tips | All Tips (3) (1) "Sons of the Conquistadors" (1941 government documentary) - includes Hermenegildo and Epifanio Jaramillo in their home, which is now the Restaurante de Chimayó (www.ranchodechimayo.com)
(2)"Monster" (1979) raw low (no) budget sci-fi but features Chimayó locations and residents - also the interior of Santuario and John Carradine (see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079573/) - also released as "Monstroid, It Came from the Lake", "Kuoleman järvi" (Finland), "Monster, the Legend That Became a Terror", "The Toxic Horror" and "Toxic Monster"
(3) "Spoken Word" (scheduled for release in 2009) see http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1212443/ and Variety 4/6/08 (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117983585.html?categoryid=13&cs=1).
(4) "A Good and Perfect Gift: A Christmas Story" (1987) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384975/
(5) Late for Dinner (1991) [a very limited amount of which was shot in Chimayó]
(6) Rio Arriba: Tragedy and Hope (2000) Documentary about "the drug epidemic in northern NM" (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385992/)
See also December 8, 1986 Time Magazine article about Robert Redford's 'The Milagro Beanfield War' being "forced to move the shooting from Chimayo, a community 20 miles north of Santa Fe, to nearby Truchas, after property owners objected to the presence of a movie crew in their quiet, residential area" (which started after Redford's location scout took a photograph without permission through a window of a home on the Plaza del Cerro (incidentally the most intact Spanish Colonial plaza in NM) and caught the 80 year old resident of the house naked in her bath).
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,963040,00.html
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Chimayó is within the Santa Cruz (de la Cañada) land grant established on July 1st, 1695. Land grants in New Mexico were given by the king of Spain in the 1500s and 1600s to encourage people to travel to the new world and establish claims for Spain. The Santa Cruz land grant consisted of 44 thousand acres and was established as a communal grant for 15 families.
Unfortunately, despite the protection guaranteed by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848 (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Guadalupe_Hidalgo) most of the Santa Cruz land grant has been expropriated by the U.S. Government.
According to documents in the New Mexico State Records Center and Archives (Surveyor General Case File 245 in the Spanish Archives of New Mexico - SANM I microfilm roll number 30) The Santa Cruz land grant was formally confirmed by the Chief Justice of the U.S. Court of Private Land Claims in his decision of December 11, 1900 and its boundaries were described as: "The part and portion of said grant and tract of land, which is hereby confirmed to and in favor of the said petitioners last mentioned in the manner herein stated, is described as follows: …to the brow of the elevation first North of the Santa Cruz River; thence in an Easterly-direction along the brow of said last named elevation to a point due North of the junction of the Quemado River with the Santa Cruz River; thence due South through said junction of said rivers to the brow of the elevation next South of the Santa Cruz River; thence Westerly along said last mentioned brow to the East boundary of the lands of the Santa Clara pueblo as surveyed and patented by the United States; thence North along said East boundary of said Pueblo lands so patented to the North East corner thereof; thence West along the North boundary of the said patented lands of said Santa Clara Pueblo to the Rio Grande del Norte River; thence Northward along the East bank of said Rio Grande del Norte River to the place of beginning.”
(see map http://elibrary.unm.edu/oanm/NmU/mss29bc_images/nmu1%23mss29bc_img0679.png)
bar·ran·ca n. pl. bar·ran·cas also bar·ran·cos Southwestern U.S.
(1.) A deep ravine or gorge. (2.) A bluff. [Spanish, probably of Iberian origin.]
Also: Zanja (gully), Manga (mountain spur) and Ceja (ridge)
"An arroyo is a nearly vertically walled, flat floored stream channel that forms in fine, cohesive, easily eroded material. Arroyos can cut as deeply as 20 meters (65 feet) into the valley floor, are often wider than 50 meters (165 feet), and can be hundreds of kilometers long. Arroyos exist throughout the western United States, but are most common in arid and semi-arid climates in the Southwest. The rapid widening and deepening of arroyos have both changed the physical environment and been a costly nuisance in the west since settlement began in the mid 1800's."
The Arroyo Problem in the Southwestern United States. Brandon J. Vogt
U.S. Geological Survey http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/sw/impacts/geology/arroyos/
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In the early 19th Century, nineteen families lived in what was then called El Potrero (Sp. pasture) de Chimayó. The land where the Santuario now stands belonged to Don Fernando Abeyta, one of the first members of Los Hermanos de la Fraternidad Piadosa de Nuestro Padre Jesús Nazareno (the Penitentes) in the area. Also, he was probably devoted to the Christ of Esquipulas, a pilgrimage site in Guatemala where the clay is ascribed healing power. A nephew of Don Fernando's was christened Juan de Esquipulas in 1805.
Fernando Abeyta built a small chapel to the Christ of Esquipulas on the present site around 1810. On November 15, 1813, he wrote to Father Sebastián Álvarez, the parish priest of Santa Cruz de la Cañada, asking him to write to the Episcopal See of Durango for permission to build a bigger church in which the people of El Potrero could worship Jesus as he appeared at Esquipulas and could hear Mass. The next day, Fr. Álvarez wrote the letter, mentioning that cures were reported and many pilgrims were arriving. On February 8, 1814, Francisco Fernández Valentín, Vicar General of the Diocese of Durango, wrote back with permission. By 1816 the chapel was replaced by the present church.
Abeyta's daughter, Carmen Abeyta de Chaves, inherited the property and kept it despite an attempt to force her to give it to the Church; a major source of her income was donations from pilgrims. Her daughter, María de los Ángeles Chaves, inherited it in turn and was the owner as of 1915. In 1929, when the owners were in financial trouble, members of the newly formed Spanish Colonial Arts Society (including the architect John Gaw Meem) bought the property and then donated it to the Archdiocese of Santa Fe.
...distinctly Norteño Hispanic Culture - which stems from Nuño de Guzman’s conquest of Sinaloa (1527), Cristobal Oñate’s foundation of Zacatecas (1546), Francisco Ibarra’s establishment of Nueva Vizcaya (1570), Luis Carabajal’s settlement of Nuevo Leon (1585), and Juan de Oñate’s entrada into New Mexico in 1598. These are the founding fathers of El Norte, a region as old as any Spanish-speaking country in Latin America. The explorers, conquerors, and settlers of El Norte were a diverse group often led by Iberians but mostly composed of some criollos (Spanish born in the Americas), many more mestizos (mixed-race but Hispanicized), allied Indians from Central Mexico (Tlaxcalans, Otomis, and Mexicas), and Africans. Norteños, unlike the criollos and mestizos of Central Mexico, did not strongly identify with surrounding indigenous societies or cast nostalgic back glances at vanished Toltec, Aztec, or Mayan glories. Instead in El Norte, a creolized mestizo culture evolved which reproduced and maintained much of the style and tradition of Medieval Spain during the Reconquista (1085-1492). The knightly élan of charros and vaqueros maintained the equestrian and cattle ranching traditions of Extremadura and Andalucía. The martial lifestyle of the Norteños duplicated the military frontier in Castile. Fortified villages and haciendas throughout El Norte created another land of castles (Castilla) mirroring society in the Iberian Peninsula. The corrido music and costuming of Norteños directly evolved out of Spanish traditions, as did the religiosity of Norteños devoted as it was to Marian figures, called throughout El Norte, Conquistadoras.
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on May 2, 2008
