Click on the image to make it larger. This is a picture of the San Miguel Mission Church, the oldest church in the USA. Hispanos in New Mexico, especially Santa Fe, need to step up to the plate and volunteer in places where they are "making presentations about us". Or others will and we may not like the results. An example follows. If you do happen to volunteer be truthful and do not promote agendas...
I went and paid my $1.00 to go into the San Miguel Mission, the "Oldest Church". I went into the church itself and sat down to listen to the "historical account" a person was making to what seemed like a group of German tourists. The presentation was no where close to factual. Not even close.
He told them that several hundred Indians from Mexico had decided to relocate/migrate and that when they got to Santa Fe they decided to build the San Miguel Mission on top of another Native American holy place. So that the Mission had had religious significance for over 800 years. But no where in his presentation did he tell the tourists that the "Indians from Mexico" had come with don Juan de Onate.
I personally think that was a horrible oversight. I don't know what effect the talk had on the Germans, but they did not hear the whole truth.
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