Chicano land grant movement

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Chicano movement Mexican American civil rights movement social movement

The Chicano land grant movement was a mid-20th-century Mexican American struggle in the U.S. Southwest to reclaim or secure recognition of ancestral communal land rights guaranteed under historic Spanish and Mexican land grants.

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Chicano land grant movement canonical	1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Chicano movement ⓘ Mexican American civil rights movement ⓘ social movement ⓘ
country	United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
ethnicGroupInvolved	Chicanos NERFINISHED ⓘ Mexican Americans NERFINISHED ⓘ
focus	communal grazing lands ⓘ water rights associated with land grants ⓘ
goal	defend communal land use practices ⓘ reclaim ancestral communal land rights ⓘ secure legal recognition of historic land grants ⓘ
hasCause	dispossession of Spanish and Mexican land grants ⓘ failure of the United States to honor Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo land provisions ⓘ
historicalContext	post-World War II era in the United States ⓘ
influenced	Latino environmental justice organizing ⓘ later Chicano activism ⓘ
influencedBy	Mexican nationalism ⓘ U.S. civil rights movement NERFINISHED ⓘ indigenous land rights struggles ⓘ
issue	communal land rights ⓘ environmental justice ⓘ land tenure ⓘ property rights ⓘ rural poverty ⓘ
legalBasis	Mexican land grants ⓘ Spanish land grants ⓘ Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo NERFINISHED ⓘ
mainRegion	Arizona NERFINISHED ⓘ California NERFINISHED ⓘ Colorado NERFINISHED ⓘ New Mexico NERFINISHED ⓘ Texas NERFINISHED ⓘ U.S. Southwest NERFINISHED ⓘ
method	direct action ⓘ legal challenges ⓘ occupation of disputed lands ⓘ protest ⓘ
notableEvent	Tierra Amarilla courthouse raid NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableEventDate	1967 ⓘ
notableLeader	Reies López Tijerina NERFINISHED ⓘ
notableOrganization	Alianza Federal de Mercedes NERFINISHED ⓘ
opposedBy	federal authorities ⓘ local Anglo landowners ⓘ state authorities ⓘ
relatedTo	Chicano Movement NERFINISHED ⓘ Mexican American civil rights movement ⓘ
timePeriod	1960s ⓘ 1970s ⓘ mid-20th century ⓘ

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