New Mexico History

Mescalero Apache The Mescalero's call themselves Shis-Inday, “People of the Mountain Forests," or Mashgalénde / Mashgalé-neí / Mashgalé-õde, “People close to the mountains." Spanish settlers...

Though gender roles and responsibilities were well defined in Apache culture, Apache women held prominent roles in Apache society. Women often accompanied warriors on...

Unlike many of the missions in New Mexico, St. Joseph Apache Mission in Mescalero was a labor of love, built as a gift to...

New Mexico has an enormous amount of intriguing fodder for “based on a true story” westerns should that genre ever come back into style....

Land grants, water rights, and property ownership have consistently been a point of contention and ongoing conflict in New Mexico, long before the region...