NM Chicano movement figure to make rare appearance
Posted at: 02/02/2012 7:32 AM
By: RUSSELL CONTRERAS Associated Press
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - Reies Lopez Tijerina, a controversial figure from the Chicano Movement, is scheduled to make a rare appearance at one of many events honoring the anniversary of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo signing.
The 85-year-old Tijerina is slated to speak Thursday at the New Mexico Statehouse Rotunda.
Other events are planned include one organized by ranchers who are suing the U.S. Forest Service over its decision to limit grazing on historic land grant areas in northern New Mexico.
In 1967, Tijerina and armed followers raided a Rio Arriba County courthouse in Tierra Amarilla, N.M. to attempt a citizen's arrest of then-District Attorney Alfonso Sanchez over the land grant issue.
The raiders shot and wounded a state police officer and jailer, beat a deputy and took a sheriff and reporter hostage.
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