Alianza Federal de Mercedes

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Alianza Federal de Mercedes was a Chicano land-grant rights organization in New Mexico that fought to reclaim and defend Hispanic communal land grants in the 1960s.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Chicano land-grant rights organization
civil rights organization
activeIn 1960s
advocatedFor enforcement of land grant provisions of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
return of communal lands to local heirs
areaOfActivity Rio Arriba County, New Mexico NERFINISHED
San Luis Valley region NERFINISHED
associatedWith Chicano civil rights activists
basedOn Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo land grant provisions NERFINISHED
cause land dispossession of Hispanic communities
country United States of America
surface form: United States
ethnicFocus Hispanic
Indo-Hispano
foundedBy Reies López Tijerina NERFINISHED
historicalContext post-World War II civil rights era
historicalSignificance key organization in the Chicano land-grant movement
symbol of resistance to land dispossession in the U.S. Southwest
ideology Chicano nationalism NERFINISHED
land rights activism
languageOfOrganization English
Spanish
legalFocus Spanish and Mexican land grants in New Mexico
communal land grants
locatedIn New Mexico
movement Chicano Movement NERFINISHED
notableEvent 1967 Tierra Amarilla courthouse raid NERFINISHED
notableLeader Reies López Tijerina NERFINISHED
opposed Anglo-American control of former Mexican land grants
opposedBy federal law enforcement agencies
state authorities of New Mexico
purpose defense of Hispanic communal land grants
reclamation of land grants in New Mexico
regionServed northern New Mexico
subjectOf documentaries on Reies López Tijerina
scholarship on Chicano land struggles
usedTactics direct action
legal challenges
public demonstrations

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Reies López Tijerina founded Alianza Federal de Mercedes