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"Tierra-O Muerte: The Land Belongs to the People"

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Title

"Tierra-O Muerte: The Land Belongs to the People"

Subject

Chicano Movement

Description

This pamphlet combines previous writings by Clark Knowlton and Frances Swadesh into one essay that explores the long land struggle in New Mexico that culminated in the 1967 Tierra Amarilla courthouse "raid." In addition, it explores tensions between La Raza and hippies, who were coming to New Mexico in larger numbers.

Creator

El Grito newspaper, re-published by Radical Education Project

Source

Roz Payne

Publisher

Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date

ca. early-1970s

Format

pamphlet

Collection

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Citation

El Grito newspaper, re-published by Radical Education Project, “"Tierra-O Muerte: The Land Belongs to the People",” Roz Payne Sixties Archive, accessed April 11, 2025, https://rozsixties.unl.edu/items/show/461.

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