Word: tijerina
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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...
...Reynoso, director of the California Rural Legal Assistance; James De Anda, a school desegregation litigator in Texas; Vicente T. Ximenes, commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Mario Obledo, general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund; and William Higgs '58, personal counsel to Reies Lopez Tijerina-will participate in the Symposium, which is open to the public...
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...
Higgs will discuss the land grants issue, as well as Tijerina's status with the courts concerning an October 1966 case against the Forest Raugers and the Tierra Amarilla Courthouse Raid of June...
...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 an independent state based on land grants allegedly guaranteed by the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, and the contribution infuriated New Mexican Episcopalians. Bishop C.J. Kinsolving...