That’s when the federal government returned the Blue Lake watershed to his tribe. “Now we don’t have to hide when we go up into the mountains,” said Suazo, a former Taos Pueblo governor.

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Blue Lake Act, signed into law by President Richard Nixon, which returned 48,000 acres of sacred, traditional land to the Taos Pueblo Tribe of northern New Mexico ...

Within these mountains is the 19,425-ha Taos Pueblo Blue Lake Wilderness Area, a resource of critical importance to the Pueblo’s living culture and agricultural sustainability. The Sacred Blue Lake, ...

President Richard Nixon signed a bill that returned Blue Lake and its watershed to Taos Pueblo — 48,000 acres that the tribe had long considered sacred. The event not only ended a 64-year ...

the U.S. government had seized a large swath of Taos Pueblo land, including the sacred Blue Lake, which would not be returned until 1970. The exhibition includes a short film (“Through Eyes That ...

The Pueblo compares reaching this momentous settlement with the historic 70-year struggle to have its sacred Blue Lake returned by the federal government. Taos Pueblo water rights coordinator ...

(gentle music) - [Mabel] Tony told me about Blue Lake and made me see it from the Indian viewpoint. (gentle music) The holiest spot in Taos Pueblo's geography. (gentle music continues ...

TAOS COUNTY, N.M. (KRQE) – A group of young indigenous artists from the Pueblo of Taos are continuing their mission to preserve their culture and language through music, dance, and literature.

The Taos Pueblo land tracts immediately surrounding the proposed flight routes and the Pueblo village were included for the study, whereas the Blue Lake Wilderness, a federally protected area for ...

Taos Pueblo in New Mexico is just one ... the 40th anniversary of Richard Nixon’s 1970 decision to return Blue Lake to the Pueblo Indians. This sacred religious site in the mountains, which ...