Julia Stiles

MTV profiled her in its Diary series in 2003 and she was Punk'd by Ashton Kutcher in the spring of 2004. (**)The second USS New Mexico, SSN-779, is scheduled to be constructed. Bush's daughter Jenna. If the diner wants both the answer is: "Christmas". She returned to Saturday Night Live on May 5 in a cameo as President George W. (*)The official State Question refers to a waiter asking a diner's preference for either red or green Chile sauce (or salsa), made from Chile peppers, with their meal (in New Mexico chile sauce can be finer, and thicker than salsa). On March 17, 2001, Stiles hosted Saturday Night Live and eight days later introduced a music nominee at the 73rd Academy Awards. Lawrence resided in Taos.

Stiles also played a teenage girl who finds herself pregnant and runs away from her unforgiving father (Bill Smitrovich) in NBC's miniseries The '60's (1999), a film Caryn James dismissed as "conspicuously idiotic." Stiles was the public face of the film, with NBC using her face, painted with a peace sign and the American flag, both in its advertising and on the cover of the soundtrack album. Writer D.H. Marcia Ross, the film's casting director, told Jeffrey Ressner "she projects an intelligent depth, she's not girlish, and she'll easily grow into adult roles.". Performing arts include the renowned Santa Fe summer opera, and the restored Lensic Theater. In Before Women Had Wings (1997) on CBS, she played opposite Ellen Burstyn and Oprah Winfrey in an adaptation of the novel by Connie May Fowler. Colonies for artists and writers thrive, and the small city teems with art galleries. She has been seen in two made-for-TV movies. Another museum honors resident Georgia O'Keeffe.

After two appearances on the PBS series Ghostwriter in 1993 and 1994, she appeared as a guest star on the medical drama Chicago Hope. The capital city has museums of Spanish colonial, international folk, Navajo ceremonial, modern Native American, and other modern art. Stiles' work on television has been more limited. A large artistic community thrives in Santa Fe. Stiles told Leslie Goober that she was very similar to the character, Paige Morgan, but critic Scott Foundas said while she was, as always, "irrepressibly engaging" the film was a "strange career choice for Stiles." This echoed criticism in reviews of A Guy Thing (2003), a romantic comedy with Jason Lee and Selma Blair; Dennis Harvey wrote that Stiles was "wasted," and Stephen Holden called her "a serious actress from whom comedy does not seem to flow naturally.". There are natural history and atomic museums in Albuquerque, which also hosts the famed Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta. Stiles played a Wisconsin co-ed, with dreams of becoming a doctor, who is swept off her feet by a Danish prince in The Prince and Me (2004), directed by Martha Coolidge. The presence of various indigenous Native American communities, the long-established Spanish and Mexican influence, and the diversity of Anglo-American settlement in the region, ranging from pioneer farmers and ranchers in the territorial period to military families in later decades, make New Mexico a particularly heterogeneous state.

Stephen Holden referred to her as one of the cinema's "brightest young stars," but the film met with generally unfavorable reviews. The tranquil climate and startling panoramas have attracted Americans seeking health and retirement. Her next leading role was in Mona Lisa Smile (2003) as Joan, a student at Wellesley College in 1953, whose art professor (Julia Roberts) encourages her to pursue a career in law rather than becoming a wife and mother. Because of the historical isolation of New Mexico from other speakers of the Spanish language, the local dialect preserves some late medieval Castillian vocabulary considered archaic elsewhere, adopts numerous Native American words for local features, and contains much Anglicized vocabulary for American concepts and modern inventions. Aimee Agresti quoted producer Lynda Obst as saying Stiles was turning into the next Meryl Streep. New Mexican Spanish dispenses with many grammatical niceties, typically restricting verb conjugations to two. Stiles also had small roles as a CIA operative in The Bourne Identity (2002) and its sequel The Bourne Supremacy (2004). At least one-third of New Mexicans are also fluent in a unique dialect of Spanish.

She has an effect on people," said Channing. Most of the considerably fewer recent Mexican immigrants reside in the southern part of the state. Channing was impressed by her co-star: "In addition to her talent, she has a quality that is almost feral, something that can make people uneasy. More than one-third of New Mexicans claim Hispanic origin, the vast majority of whom descend from the original Spanish colonists in the northern portion of the state. Stiles also played opposite Stockard Channing in the dark art house film The Business of Strangers (2001) as a conniving underling who exacts revenge on her cold boss. The prehistorically agricultural Pueblo Indians live in pueblos scattered throughout the state, many older than any European settlement. In David Mamet's State and Main (2000), about a film shooting on location in a small town in Vermont, she played a teenage girl who seduces a film actor (Alec Baldwin) with a weakness for young girls. With 16 million acres (65,000 km²), mostly in neighboring Arizona, the reservation of the Navajo Nation ranks as the largest in the United States.

She told Rolling Stone that despite rumors, she did all her own dancing in the film, though the way the film was shot and edited made it appear otherwise. The Apache and some Ute live on federal reservations within the state. Rolling Stone pronounced her "the coolest co-ed", putting her on the cover of its April 12, 2001 issue. Both the Navajo and Apache share Athabaskan origin. The role won her two more MTV awards for "Best Kiss" and "Best Female Performance", and a Teen Choice Award for best fight scene for her battle with Bianca Lawson. With a Native American population of 134,000 in 1990, New Mexico still ranks as an important center of American Indian culture. At her new, nearly all-black school, she falls in love with Sean Patrick Thomas, who teaches her hip-hop dance steps that get her into The Juilliard School. New Mexico has three dioceses, one of which is an archdiocese:.

Her next commercial success was in Save the Last Dance (2001), as an aspiring ballerina forced to leave her small town in downstate Illinois to live with her struggling musician father in Chicago after her mother is killed. New Mexico belongs to the Ecclesiastical Province of Santa Fe. Neither was a great success; O had been subjected to many delays and a change of distributors and Hamlet was an art house film shot on a minimal budget. states. The second was playing Ophelia in Michael Almerayda's Hamlet (2000), with Ethan Hawke in the lead. Like many other Western states, New Mexico has a higher than average percentage of people who claim no religion in comparison to other U.S. The first was playing the Desdemona role, opposite Mekhi Phifer in the title role, in Tim Blake Nelson's O (2001), Othello set in a high school. New Mexico is overwhelmingly Christian with relatively few adherents of non-Christian religions living in the state.

She subsequently appeared in two more Shakespearean adaptations. Females made up approximately 50.8% of the population. a Teen Choice Award nomination for their on-screen chemistry. 7.2% of New Mexico's population were reported as under 5, 28% under 18, and 11.7% were 65 or older. Her next starring role was in Down to You, which was heavily panned by critics but was a financial success, and earned Stiles and her co-star Freddie Prinze, Jr. The 5 largest ancestry groups in New Mexico are Mexican (18.1%), German (9.9%), American Indian (9.5%), Spanish (9.3%), and English (7.6%). Adina Hoffman praised her as "a young, serious looking Diane Lane" and Martin Hoyle said Stiles played Kat "with bloody-minded independent charm from the beginning with hints of wistfulness beneath the determination.". The racial makeup of the state is:.

Foreign critics applauded her work as well. For a list of cities and towns, in New Mexico, with a population greater than 3,000, see: Cities & towns in New Mexico. She won an MTV Movie Award for "Breakthrough Female Performance" for the role, and the Chicago Film Critics voted her the most promising new actress of the year. According to the Census Bureau, as of 2003, the population of New Mexico was 1,874,614. The population of New Mexico has grown 23.7% from its 1990 levels. The role that made her a star was Kat Stratford, opposite Heath Ledger, in Gil Junger's 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), an adaptation of The Taming of the Shrew set in a Seattle high school. See also New Mexico locations by per capita income. and went direct-to-video. By contrast, many heavily Native American and Hispanic rural communities remain economically underdeveloped.

Joe Balthai wrote she was "the darling of the 1998 Sundance Film Festival" and Internet movie writer Harry Knowles said she was the "discovery of the fest," but the film was not commercially released in the U.S. The warm, semiarid climate has contributed to the exploding population of Albuquerque, attracting new industries to New Mexico. Her first lead was in Wicked (1998), playing a teenage girl who murders her mother so she can have her father all to herself. Albuquerque also hosts a famed hot-air balloon festival. Night Shyamalan's Wide Awake. Attractions include the Cibola National Forest near Albuquerque, the natural-history and atomic museums in the city, and the rich, unique history of the region. Pakula's The Devil's Own (1997) and in M. Tourism also provides many service jobs.

She also had small roles as Harrison Ford's daughter in Alan J. Noted as a health resort, Albuquerque contains many hospitals. Stiles' first film was a non-speaking part in I Love You, I Love You Not (1996) with Claire Danes and Jude Law. The private service economy in urban New Mexico has boomed in recent decades. In the spring of 2004, she made her London stage debut opposite Aaron Eckhart in a revival of David Mamet's play Oleanna at the Garrick Theatre. Albuquerque also hosts a famed hot-air balloon festival. Reviewing the production, Ben Brantley of The New York Times saluted Stiles as "the thinking teenagers' movie goddess" who put him in mind of a "young Jane Fonda". Attractions include the Cibola National Forest near Albuquerque, the natural-history and atomic museums in the city, and the rich, unique history of the region.

She graduated to adult roles by performing in Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues and, in the summer of 2002, appeared as Viola, the lead role in Shakespeare in the Park's production of Twelfth Night with Jimmy Smits. Tourism provides many service jobs. Stiles started acting at age eleven, performing with New York's La MaMa Theatre Company, securing work by submitting photographs of herself in costume to the company and asking that she be kept in mind for juvenile roles [6] (http://www.juliastiles.net/theater.html). These installations include the missile and spacecraft proving grounds at White Sands. The actress has described herself as a feminist and wrote on the subject in The Guardian [5] (http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1240843,00.html):. Sandia National Laboratories conducts electronic and industrial research at Kirtland Air Force Base south of Albuquerque. Stiles has also worked for Habitat for Humanity, building housing in Costa Rica [2] (http://www.habitat.org/newsroom/2000archive/1insitedoc004229.htm), and has worked with Amnesty International to try and raise awareness of the harsh conditions of immigration detention of unaccompanied juveniles; Marie Claire magazine, in January 2004, featured Stiles' trip to see conditions at the Berks County Youth Center in Leesport, Pennsylvania [3] (http://www.amnestyusa.org/artistsforamnesty/feb2004.html) [4] (http://www.amnestyusa.org/artistsforamnesty/july2004.html). Many of the federal jobs relate to the military; the state hosts several air force bases, national observatories, and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Stiles is a Democrat who supported John Kerry's candidacy for President of the United States [1] (http://www.juliastiles.net/news.html#), and her official site, which her mother helps to maintain, provides a link to Moveon.org. Federal government spending drives the New Mexico economy and provides more than a quarter of the state's jobs. She attended a Quaker school in Manhattan and is an English major at Columbia University in New York City, though she has several times interrupted her studies to pursue her film career (she is graduating in May 2005, five years after entering College). Important high-technology industries include lasers, data processing, and solar energy. Julia Stiles was born the eldest of the three children (two daughters and a son) of John O'Hara, a teacher and businessman, and Judith Stiles, a potter. Defense-related industries include ordnance. When Stiles isn't working, she actively supports a variety of progressive and liberal issues. Industrial outputs, centered around Albuquerque, include electric equipment; petroleum and coal products; food processing; printing and publishing; and stone, glass, and clay products.

After beginning her theater career in small parts, she has moved on to leading roles in plays by writers as diverse as William Shakespeare and David Mamet; her film career has been both a commercial and critical success, ranging from teen romantic comedies such as 10 Things I Hate About You (1999) to dark art house pictures such as The Business of Strangers (2001). Natural gas, petroleum, and coal are also found in smaller quantities. Julia O'Hara Stiles (born March 28, 1981 in New York City) is an American stage and screen actress. New Mexico produces uranium ore, manganese ore, potash, salt, perlite, copper ore, beryllium, and tin concentrates. [7] (http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,4120,1240843,00.html) (Mona Lisa Smile, Oleanna and feminism). Even before European exploration, Native Americans used silver and turquoise in making jewelry. June 17, 2004. New Mexicans derive much of their income from mineral extraction.

"Who's afraid of the 1950s?" The Guardian (London). Lumber mills in Albuquerque process pinewood, the chief commercial wood of the rich timber economy of northern New Mexico. Julia Stiles. Other irrigation projects use the Colorado River basin and the San Juan River. (General material). The Carlsbad and Fort Sumner reclamation projects on the Pecos River and the nearby Tucumcari project provide adequate water for limited irrigation in those areas. Located upstream of Las Cruces, the Elephant Butte Dam and Reservoir provides a major irrigation source for the extensive farming along the Rio Grande. 74-7. In the desert and semiarid portions of the state, the scant rainfall evaporates rapidly, generally leaving insufficient water supplies for large-scale irrigation.

February 2003. New Mexico specialty crops include piñon nuts, pinto beans, and chiles. 2. Hay and sorghum top the list of major dryland crops. Farmers also produce onions, potatoes, and dairy products. 51, n. Major crops include hay, nursery stock, pecans, and chiles. v. Limited but scientifically controlled dryland farming prospers alongside cattle ranching.

YM. Cattle, sheep, and other livestock graze most of the arable land of the state throughout the year. "No one can shut me up". Cattle and dairy products top the list of major animal products of New Mexico. Julia Stiles. The Bureau of Economic Analysis (http://www.bea.gov/) estimates that New Mexico's total state product in 2003 was $57 billion. Per capital personal income in 2003 was $24,995, 48^th in the nation. (General material).
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112-5. The Gila Wilderness lies in the southwest of the state. April 2004. Other areas of geographical and scenic interest include Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument and the Valles Caldera National Preserve. 7, n. 3. Tourists visiting these sites bring significant monies to the state. v. Visitors also frequent the surviving native pueblos of New Mexico.

Teen People. The rich history of New Mexico also attracts visitors to such places as Fort Union, Gila Cliff Dwellings, and Salinas Pueblo Missions national monuments and Chaco Culture National Historical Park. "Julia Stiles gets real". Thousands of tourists annually visit the White Sands National Monument, Bandelier, Capulin Volcano National Monument, El Morro. Smith. The natural attractions of New Mexico include Carlsbad Caverns National Park and the Aztec Ruins National Monument. Jennifer L. The Federal government protects millions of acres of beautiful New Mexico as national forests and monuments.

(General material, Sundance). Cacti, yuccas, creosote bush, sagebrush, and desert grasses cover the broad, semiarid plains that cover the southern portion of the state. April 12, 1999. Despite New Mexico's arid image, heavily forested mountain wildernesses cover a significant portion of the state. Part of the Rocky Mountains, the broken, north-south oriented Sangre de Cristo (Blood of Christ) range flanks both sides of the Rio Grande from the rugged, pastoral north through the center of the state. Government lands include the Cibola National Forest, headquartered in Albuquerque and the Santa Fe National Forest, headquartered in Santa Fe. 14. The landscape ranges from wide, rose-colored deserts to broken mesas to high, snow-capped peaks. 153, n. The states of New Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Utah come together at the Four Corners in the northwestern corner of New Mexico.

v. The 37 °N parallel forms the northern boundary with Colorado. Time. Texas also lies south of most of New Mexico, although the southwestern boot-heel borders the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora. The western border with Arizona runs along 109 °W. "10 Things About Her: Julia Stiles' career is a class in teen stardom". The eastern border of New Mexico lies along 103 °W with Oklahoma, and 3 miles (5 km) west of 103 °W with Texas. Jeffrey Ressner. See: List of New Mexico counties.

(10 Things). Republicans Steve Pearce and Heather Wilson and Democrat Tom Udall represent the Land of Enchantment in the United States House of Representatives. 11. Domenici until January 2009. July 9, 1999. New Mexico sends Democrat Jeff Bingaman to the United States Senate until January 2007 and Republican Pete V. The Independent (London). Johnson in 1964.

"Shakespeare goes to the prom". Bush in 1988, and no Democrat has done so since Lyndon B. Charlotte O'Sullivan. W. (General material). No presidential candidate has won an absolute majority here since George H. 415-7. Bush (by just 366 popular votes) in 2000.

Detroit, Michigan: Gale, 2002. In these exceptions, New Mexicans supported Republican President Gerald Ford over Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter in 1976, and Democratic Vice President Al Gore over Texas Governor George W. In Newsmakers 2002. In national politics, however, New Mexico occupies the dead center, giving its 5 electoral votes to all but two Presidential election winners since statehood. "Julia Stiles". The Democratic Party generally dominates state politics, and as of 2004 50% of voters were registered Democrats, 33% were registered Republicans, and 17% did not affiliate with either of the two major parties. Sarah Partin. A state house of representatives with 70 members and a state senate with 42 members comprise the state legislature.

(General material). All three are Democrats. January 2003. 92-3, 155. Vigil. 11. Madrid, and State Treasurer Robert E. 100, n. Other Constitutional officers, all of whose terms also expire in January 2007, include Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron, Attorney General Patricia A.

v. For a list of past governors of the State of New Mexico, see List of New Mexico Governors. Glamour. Governors serve a term of four years and may seek reelection. "Julia speaks her mind". Governor Bill Richardson and Lieutenant Governor Diane Denish, both Democrats, will face re-election in 2006. Gia Kourlas. The Constitution of 1912, as amended, dictates the form of government in the State.

(The 60's). The capital of New Mexico is Santa Fe. February 5, 1999. E30. The controversial Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, deep in salt formations near Carlsbad readied for storage of nuclear wastes during the 1990s. The New York Times. The Sandia National Laboratories, founded in 1949, carried out nuclear research and special weapons development at Kirtland Air Force Base south of Albuquerque. "This Time, Man, The 60's Go, Like Faster". The state quickly emerged as a leader in nuclear, solar, and geothermal energy research and development.

Caryn James. High-altitude experiments near Roswell in 1947 reputedly led to persistent claims that the government captured and concealed extraterrestrial corpses and equipment. (Stockard Channing and The Business of Strangers). Albuquerque expanded rapidly after the war. December 7, 2001. E8. Top-secret personnel there developed the atomic bomb, first detonated at Trinity site in the desert on the White Sands Proving Grounds vaguely near Alamogordo on July 16, 1945. The New York Times. The United States government built the Los Alamos Research Center in 1943 amid the Second World War.

"At the Movies: Understanding a Dragon Lady". The admission of the neighboring State of Arizona on February 14, 1912 completed the contiguous 48 states. Dave Kehr. Congress admitted New Mexico as the 47th state in the Union on January 6, 1912. (10 Things). Albuquerque, on the upper Rio Grande, incorporated in 1889. 18. Confict with the Apache and the Navajo plagued the territory until Apache chief Geronimo finally surrendered in 1886.

July 8, 1999. Despite destructive overgrazing, ranching survived as a mainstay of the New Mexican economy. Financial Times. Conflicting land claims led to bitter quarrels among the original Spanish inhabitants, cattle ranchers, and newer homesteaders. "Martin Hoyle enjoys a film that turns the Bard's almost unplayable comedy into a teenage coup". The cattle kindgom could not keep out sheepherders, and eventually homesteaders and squatters overwhelmed the cattlemen by fencing in and plowing under the "sea of grass" on which the cattle fed. Martin Hoyle. Outlaws included Billy the Kid.

(Mona Lisa Smile). Cattlemen feuded between each other and with authorities, most notably in the Lincoln County War. B8. The railway encouraged the great cattle boom of the 1880s and the development of accompanying cow towns. December 19, 2003. The new town of Albuquerque, platted in 1880 as the Santa Fe Railroad extended westward, quickly enveloped the old town. The New York Times. The Santa Fe Railroad reached Lamy, New Mexico, 16 miles (26 km) from Santa Fe in 1879 and Santa Fe itself in 1880, replacing the storied Santa Fe Trail.

"Creeping 1953 Feminism Without Quite Dispelling Dreams of Prince Charming". The Roman Catholic Church established an archbishopric center in Santa Fe in 1875. Stephen Holden. Union troops withdrew after the conclusion of the war. (A Guy Thing). The Arizona Territory split as a separate entity in 1863. B31. Kit Carson helped to organize and command the 1st New Mexican Volunteers to engage in campaigns against the Apache, Navajo, and Comanche in New Mexico and Texas.

January 17, 2003. Union troops captured the territory in early 1862. The New York Times. During the American Civil War, Confederate troops from Texas first occupied New Mexico. "A Hangover Is the Least of His Problems". With this purchase, the United States established its sovereignty over all of the present state of New Mexico. Stephen Holden. The United States acquired the southwestern "boot heel" of the state and much of southern Arizona in the Gadsden Purchase of 1853.

(10 Things). Indian agent with a headquarters at Taos, and fought the Indians with notable success. 7. Carson accepted an 1853 appointment as U.S. July 26, 1999. Native American plundering led Kit Carson to abandon his intent to retire to a sheep ranch near Taos. The Jerusalem Post. Regardless of its status, slavery never took a significant hold.

"Good teen fun". Some (including Stephen Douglas) maintained that the territory could not restrict slavery, as under the earlier Missouri Compromise, while others (including Abraham Lincoln) insisted that older Mexican legal traditions, which forbade slavery, took precedence. Adina Hoffman. The people of New Mexico would determine whether to permit slavery under a constitution at statehood, but the status of slavery during the territorial period provoked considerable debate. January 20, 2003. The territory, which included Arizona and parts of Colorado, officially established its capital at Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1851. Variety. Texas transferred eastern New Mexico to the federal government, settling a lengthy boundary dispute. Under the compromise, the American government established the New Mexico Territory on September 9, 1850.

Review of A Guy Thing. The Compromise of 1850 halted a bid for statehood under an antislavery constitution. Dennis Harvey. The change of national authority allowed Anglo-American culture to come to New Mexico. (General material). This new territory included most of the western half of present-day New Mexico. 192. Under the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo of 1848, Mexico ceded much of the American Southwest to the United States of America.

December 2001. On meeting Kit Carson, General Kearney commanded Carson to guide his men to California. 231, n.6. Kearny entered Santa Fe without opposition in 1846 during the Mexican-American War, and his forces occupied the city, making New Mexico a United States territory. v. American General Stephen W. Cosmopolitan. The United States of America annexed Texas as a state in 1845; the status of the territory of modern-day New Mexico was finalized with the 1848 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the conclusion of the Texas War.

"The Hottest Chicks in Hollywood". New Mexico authorities captured a group of Texans who embarked an expedition to assert their claim to the province in 1841. Leslie Goober. The breakaway Republic of Texas claimed the territory north and east of the Rio Grande when it seceded from Mexico in 1836. (The Prince and Me). He joined a caravan for Santa Fe, and made Taos, his home and headquarters as he made a living as a teamster, cook, guide, and hunter for exploring parties until 1840. 80, 86. American frontiersman Kit (Christopher) Carson, apprenticed to a saddler in the Santa Fe Trail outfitting point of Old Franklin, ran away from his job in 1826.

Variety. March 29, 2004. The Santa Fe National Historic Trail follows the route of the old trail, with many sites marked or restored. "Not a Fresh 'Prince'". The dry southern Cimmaron route offered poor short grass and little wildlife. Scott Foundas. The rugged Mountain Division passed over Raton Pass and rejoined the more direct Cimarron Division near Fort Union, New Mexico. 74. The Trail divided into Mountain and Cimarron Divisions southwest of Dodge City, Kansas.

7 July 2002. Wagon caravans thereafter made the 40- to 60-day annual trek along the 780 mile (1,260 km) Santa Fe Trail, usually leaving in early summer and returning after a 4 to 5 week stay in New Mexico. 6, n. Becknell left Independence, Missouri, for Santa Fe early in 1822 with the first party of traders. v. Small trapping parties from the United States had previously reached Santa Fe, but the Spanish rulers forbade them to trade. Trader William Becknell returned to the United States in November 1821 with news that independent Mexico welcomed trade through Santa Fe. Biography. As a part of New Spain, the remainder of the province of New Mexico passed to independent Mexico following the 1810-1821 Mexican War of Independence.

"Stiles and Substance". Napoleon Bonaparte of France sold the vast Louisiana Purchase, which extended into the northeastern corner of New Mexico, to the United States in 1803. Alec Foege. The through development of ranching and some farming in the 1700s laid the foundations for the state's still-flourishing Hispanic culture. April 12, 2001. (General material, college career). They constructed the Church of San Felipe de Nerí (1706). Issue 866. While developing Santa Fe as a trade center, the returning settlers founded the old town of Albuquerque in 1706, naming for the viceroy of New Spain, the duke of Alburquerque.

Rolling Stone. The Apache revolted violently in 1676, and the Pueblo uprising of 1680 drove the Spanish to abandon New Mexico entirely until the campaign of Diego de Vargas Zapata reestablished Spanish control and returned Spanish colonists in 1692. "Is Julia Stiles too cool for school?". Missionaries subjugated Native Americans to forced labor on the haciendas and attempted to convert them to Christianity. Jancee Dunn. Spanish settlers arrived at the site of Albuquerque in the mid-1600s. July 22, 2002. (Twelfth Night). Although the colony failed to prosper, some missions flourished.

The New York Times. Peralta built the Palace of Governors in 1610. "Wayward Currents in Uncharted Waters". As the seat of government of New Mexico since its founding, Santa Fe is the oldest capital city in the United States. Ben Brantley. In 1609, Pedro de Peralta, a later governor of the Province of New Mexico, established the settlement of Santa Fe at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. (General material; biography for younger readers). The Native Americans at Acoma revolted against this Spanish encroachment but faced severe suppression.

Bear, Delaware: Mitchell Lane, 2003. Oñate was made the first governor of the new Province of New Mexico. Julia Stiles. Oñate pioneered the El Camino Real, "The Royal Road" as a 700 mile (1100 km) lifeline from the rest of New Spain to his remote colony. John Bankston. Juan de Oñate founded the San Juan colony on the Rio Grande in 1598, the first European settlement in the future state of New Mexico. October 28, 1999. (General material, Sundance). His maltreatment of the Pueblo people while exploring the upper Rio Grande valley led to long-standing hostility that impeded the Spanish conquest of New Mexico.

The Arizona Republic. Coronado camped near an excavated pueblo today preserved as Coronado State Monument in 1541. "Screen Idol-escents". Dispatched from New Spain, conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado led a full-scale expedition to find these cities in 1540-1542. Joe Balthai. Fray Marcos de Niza enthusiastically identified the pueblos as the fabulously rich Seven Cities of Cibola, the fabled seven cities of gold. (The Prince and Me). Word of the pueblos reached Cabeza de Vaca, a Spaniard wandering across south New Mexico in 1528-1536.

B5. The Spanish encountered Pueblo civilization in the 1500s. Newsday (Long Island, N.Y.) April 2, 2004. The Pueblo people built a flourishing sedentary culture in the 1200s, constructing small towns in the valley of the Rio Grande and pueblos nearby. "Prince Charming isn't her crowning achievement". Caves in the Sandia Mountains near Albuquerque contain the remains of some of the earliest inhabitants of the New World. John Andrews. Prehistoric Native Americans used the land and minerals of New Mexico to build an early Southwestern culture millenia ago. Prehistoric Native American ruins indicate a presence at modern Santa Fe.

(Lynda Obst). In European Spanish, the state's name would be spelled Nuevo Méjico. 74-6. Both English and Spanish are officially recognized languages in the state. August 2002. sometimes mistake it for a part of Mexico. 12. For a variety of reasons, some people in other parts of the U.S.

15, n. As a result, the demographics and culture of the state are unique for their strong Spanish, Mexican, and Native American cultural influences. v. It also contains a sizeable Native American population. Premiere. New Mexico holds the distinction of being the state with the highest percentage of people who claim Hispanic ancestry, many of whom are descended from Spanish colonists. "Type A Student". Over its relatively long history it has also been occupied by Native American populations, part of the Spanish colony of New Spain, a province of the Republic of Mexico, and a US territory.

Aimee Agresti. New Mexico (Spanish: Nuevo México) is one of the two southwestern states of the USA. Marc Simmons, New Mexico: An Interpretive History, 221 pages, University of New Mexico Press 1988, ISBN 0826311105 - good introduction. Kern, Labor in New Mexico: Strikes, Unions, and Social History, 1881-1981, University of New Mexico Press 1983, ISBN 0826306756. Robert W.

Paul Horgan, Great River, The Rio Grande in North American History, 1038 pages, Wesleyan University Press 1991, 4th Reprint, ISBN 819562513 - Pulitzer Prize 1955. Tony Hillerman, The Great Taos Bank Robbery and other Indian Country Affairs, University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, 1973, trade paperback, 147 pages, (ISBN 082630530X). Maciel, editors, The Contested Homeland: A Chicano History of New Mexico, 314 pages - University of New Mexico Press 2000, ISBN 0826321992. Erlinda Gonzales-Berry, David R.

Chavez, An Illustrated History of New Mexico, 267 pages, University of New Mexico Press 2002, ISBN 0826330517. Thomas E. Diocese of Las Cruces. Diocese of Gallup.

Archdiocese of Santa Fe. 17% No Religion. 1% Non-Christian Religions. 3% Mormon.

20% Other Protestant. 3% Pentecostal. 4% Presbyterian. 10% Baptist.

37% Protestant