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By George Sanchez

Forgotten humans appears on the plight of the population of northern New Mexico. It begins with a heritage of the world together with the Spanish interval. headquartered round Taos, it seems to be on the humans, the land, group assets of the interval, and schooling. incorporated are pictures, illustrations, a desk of inhabitants of Spanish good, land prestige acreages of 1970, and a comparability of recent Mexico college budgets.

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Land Status Acreages 61 III. Comparison of New Mexico School Budgets 72 Page ix ILLUSTRATIONS PHOTOGRAPHY BY GEORGE I. SÁNCHEZ Inherent Beauty Frontispiece Old Folks 4 Canyon Walls 4 Ranchos de Taos Church 5 Church Buttresses 5 At the Fiestas 20 A French-New Mexican 21 Mora Valley 36 Mesa 37 Handicrafts 52 Farm Home 53 Threshing 53 Panorama of Taos 68 Taos Fiestas 68 Chile Harvest 69 Cash Crop 69 Harwood Foundation 84 Harwood Library 84 Rural School 85 Smithy 85 Vocational School 92 Tannery 92 Sangre de Cristo 93 Gorge of the Rio Grande 93 Page xi FOREWORD Mario T.

On the other hand, the government must also establish new educational programs that would lead to the further economic and cultural integration of New Mexicans. Concerning the latter strategy, Sánchez first stressed that the key to the educational success of New Mexicans was a recognition that they were not like other Americans. That is, New Page xxi Mexicans possessed a unique history and culture that schools needed to acknowledge and take into consideration in successfully teaching New Mexican children and relating to their parents.

Indeed, he believed that it was vital. However, he also believed that it would have to be education tailored to the specific needs of Mexican-Americans. It would have to be a progressive and culturally sensitive form of education if it were to succeed as the key element in the uplifting and integration of Mexican-Americans. More than any other figure in Chicano history, Sánchez pioneered in not only critiquing the schools of the Southwest but in proposing new strategies and objectivesstrategies and objectives that later became accepted if still controversial proposals, such as bilingual and bicultural education.

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