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A large number of Indians had come in to the fort to receive their monthly allotment of rations. As was customary on such occasions, horse races were held, pitting the Navajos’ swift ponies against the best cavalry mounts. Betting was particularly heavy on the main event of the day, a match between a Navajo called Pistol Bullet and a horse belonging to the post surgeon, Finis Kavanaugh. Seconds after the race began, Pistol Bullet lost control of his horse, which left the course and tore off in another direction. It was then discovered that the horse’s bridle rein had been slashed with a knife, so
History is often not pretty. Many things that were done in the past shock our sensibilities today. All we can do is to look objectively at such facts as we have available to us about past events and interpret them honestly, without erasure or distortion. We must keep in mind that the people who shaped those events may have had values and priorities much different from our own, and that future generations will likely judge us and the things we do today as harshly as we judge those who lived before us. The zeitgeist, the spirit of the times, constantly evolves, and generally in a positive direction, toward greater tolerance and kindness, less cruelty and injustice. That should give us hope.
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On Sept. 22, 1861, after Fauntleroy had departed, but before the Army bureaucracy got around to removing his name from the fort, it became the scene of yet another tragic incident in the long, sad history of Euro-American / Native American relations.
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The Fort Fauntleroy Massacre, as it came to be called, was one of several similar incidents that led to all-out war with the Navajos, culminating in their removal to a dismal reservation on the Pecos River at Fort Sumner, 300 miles from their homeland. This was a calamity on a par with Oñate’s war on Acoma Pueblo, which has brought him into such disrepute. After three years they were allowed to return home, impoverished and demoralized.
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Oddly enough, one military outpost did, for a short time, bear the name of a Confederate general. In 1860, in response
that it would snap under only a slight pull. The Indians protested, but the judges—all soldiers— refused to run the race again and declared Kavanaugh’s horse the winner. A melee ensued, during which the troops fired on the Indians, killing 12 and wounding many more, including women and children.
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Protests elsewhere have centered around the lingering legacy of Civil War iconography in the Old South. Happily, that conflict didn’t leave much of a mark on the Land of
In recognition of the brief occupation by Southern troops, the stars and bars was formerly flown on Albuquerque’s Old Town Plaza, along with the flags of other nations that have claimed sovereignty here: Spain, Mexico and the U.S. But it was removed amid protests a few years ago.
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Whether Oñate deserves a place of honor or of infamy in New Mexico history is a valid question for debate but hardly a justification for violence, nearly 400 years after his death.
to increasing tension with the Navajo Indians, Col. Thomas T. Fauntleroy, commander of the Military Department of New Mexico, established a fort on the outskirts of Navajo country and named it after himself. When the Civil War broke out less than a year later, Fauntleroy, a native of Virginia, resigned his commission and, along with a handful of other officers under his command, rode off to join the Confederacy. He was commissioned a brigadier general in the rebel army. Fort Fauntleroy, 12 miles east of present-day Gallup, was then renamed Fort Lyon, and later Fort Wingate. It remained active until 1992, a remarkably long lifespan for a frontier post.
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In recent weeks, we’ve seen protests erupt over flags, statues and the naming of military installations for longdead Confederate generals. Some demonstrations have turned violent. Here in Albuquerque, a man was shot as the result of a difference of opinion about the appropriateness of a statue in Old Town purporting to be a likeness of the adelantado Juan de Oñate, founder of the first Spanish settlement in New Mexico.
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Enchantment. The flag of the Confederacy fluttered only briefly over the territory, when rebel forces occupied Albuquerque and Santa Fe for a few weeks in the spring of 1862, before being defeated at the Battle of Glorieta Pass and forced to retreat back to El Paso. The Daughters of the Confederacy long ago placed a marker near the battlefield, southeast of Santa Fe, in memory of the soldiers who died there. That simple bronze plaque still stands and is, as far as I’m aware, the only Confederate monument extant in our state.
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