New Mexico
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- Names
New Mexico
NM
- Place Type
- state
- Description
- Inhabited by 8000 BCE; Anasazi & ancestors of Pima & Papago lived here by 12-13th cen. AD; Navajo & Apache arrived here from N by 15th cen.; Spanish arrived 16-17th cen.; area went to Mexico in 1821, to USA in 1848 in Mexican War; with Union in Civil War.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Canby, Historic Places (1984); Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Times Atlas of the World (1994); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Active
Paul Caponigro (American, born 1932)
Adrain Chesser (American, born 1965)
Steve Fitch (American, born 1949)
Alex Harris (American, born 1949)
Bertha Harvey (American and Navajo, born 1955)
Felice Lucero-Giaccardo (American and San Felipe Pueblo, born 1946)
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