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- Hero or Villain: How Should We Remember Don Juan de Oñate?
As New Mexico commemorates its 400th anniversary, some historians wonder if political correctness is dividing our state.
The recent vandalism of a bronze sculpture of conquistador Don Juan de Oñate at a public visitors center north of Española was just another reminder that few of those we honor come without some sinister baggage.
Christopher Columbus, Thomas Jefferson and Kit Carson are just a few members in a growing pantheon of historical figures who have been cast in unfavorable light by revisionist historians. Does that mean we shouldn't honor them?
Tuesday, January 15, 2008
by Ray Rivera (January 11, 1998) • Santa Fe New Mexican
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