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Higgs, who is legal counsel to Reies Lopez Tijerina and his Alianza Federal De Pueblos Libres, discussed the history of the land grants issue in New Mexico, tracing the laws concerning them from Spanish Colonial times, through the United States' aggressive actions on Mexico in 1845-1848, the Santa Fe Ring, the U. S. government's Court of Private Land Claims, up until the present. "Whereas the Indian still owns some of his land, the Chicano population, in one way or the other, has lost nearly all the land rightfully belonging to him," Higgs said...
Higgs - who represented James Meredith in his battle to gain admittance to the University of Mississippi - has been the legal counsel to Tijerina's Alianza Federal De Pueblos Libres since 1968. Tijerina - perhaps one of the most controversial Chicano leaders - has claimed that 100,000,000 acres of New Mexico's common lands belong to Indo-Hispano people of the Southwest...
...Seattle convention-an openhanded, openminded plan to channel substantial cash to minority groups and projects, with the exception of those that advocate violence. Thus the most controversial grant approved by the church's Executive Council was an award of $40,000 last year to the Alianza de los Pueblos Libres, a militant group of Mexican-Americans in New Mexico. The Alianza came to national attention in 1967 when its head, Reies Lopez Tijerina, led a raid on a county courthouse in which a jailer and a state policeman were shot. Recently, the Alianza has been seeking to form...
...theology, church leadership and local pastors in liberal Protestant churches have often been more progressive than their congregations, and sometimes positively radical. The Episcopalian, quasi-official magazine of the U.S. Episcopal Church, angered many communicants with its defense of a $40,000 grant to the militant Spanish-American Alianza in New Mexico. A breezy Methodist campus magazine, motive, ran into trouble last year when printers initially refused to set four-letter words in an issue on women's liberation; the next month's issue was pulled from the presses by the United Methodist Church Board of Education...
...they related the need for more American investment capital, both private and governmental, the end of discriminatory tariffs and of quotas for their exports. They expressed concern over the moribund Alliance for Progress, since 1961 the principal vehicle for U.S. aid to Latin America. Congress cut Alianza funds that Lyndon Johnson had requested from $625 million to a disappointing $336.5 million, and Nixon has publicly criticized the program's performance. At each stop, Latin leaders recited the litany of the region's social problems from illiteracy and overpopulation to the need for agrarian reform...