This chapter makes one thing super clear New Mexico history isn’t one story. It’s layered, messy, and full of people refusing to be erased. That’s what makes it powerful. #Hist2110 Unit 6

The image of nuevomexicano activists hanging Forest Guardians in effigy was intense. It shows how deep the fight for land and resources runs in northern NM. #Hist2110 Unit 6

Can’t believe the Forest Service blocked La Madera but let a bigger lumber company harvest the same land for 18 years. That’s textbook discrimination. #Hist2110 Unit 6

Seeing how Alianza and other groups went from militancy to organizing clinics and cooperatives just shows how movements evolve. Same roots, different tactics. #Hist2110 Unit 6

That moment where LANL is called a “bad boyfriend” really stuck with me. It's such a haunting but accurate metaphor for economic dependence wrapped in harm. #Hist2110 Unit 6

Reading about Jemez Pueblo calling Valles Caldera their Vatican hit hard. You feel the heartbreak in how slow justice moves, even for sacred land. Still fighting. #Hist2110 Unit 6

The Indigenous Resistance Tour at UNM flipping Columbus Day into a protest tour is such a smart and powerful move. Making space for truth on stolen land. #Hist2110 Unit 6

Rock Your Mocs started as a Facebook post and became a worldwide movement? That’s seriously inspiring. Goes to show how Indigenous pride and youth leadership can hit global levels. #Hist2110 Unit 6

Lowriders aren’t just sweet rides they’re basically mobile art and protest at the same time. The fact that Española claimed the title of lowrider capital says so much about cultural pride. #Hist2110 Unit 6

It’s kind of wild how Po’pay’s statue now stands in D.C. after everything that happened in the 1600s. Full circle moment for Native resistance being recognized at the heart of U.S. power. #Hist2110 Unit 6