|
|
|
Home > New Mexico
|
New Mexico
The state New Mexico is a located in the southwestern region of the United States of America. It has been occupied by Native American populations and former part of the Imperial Spanish viceroyalty of New Spain, part of Mexico, and a U.S. territory. Among U.S. states, New Mexico has the highest proportion of Hispanic Americans, consist of both recent descendants and immigrants of Spanish colonists. It also has the third-highest proportion of Native Americans behind Oklahoma and Alaska, and the fifth-highest total number of Native Americans behind Texas, Arizona, Oklahoma, and California. The tribes symbolized in the state comprised mostly Pueblo and Navajo peoples. As a result, the culture and demographics of the state are exclusive for their strong Mexican, American Indian, and Spanish cultural influences. The climate of the state is very arid and its territory is mostly enclosed by desert and mountains. At a population mass of 15 per square mile, New Mexico is the sixth most lightly populated U.S. State.
New Mexico still ranks as an essential core of American Indian culture. Both the Apache and Navajo share Athabaskan origin with a Native American population of 134,000 in 1990. Some Ute and the Apache reside on federal reservations inside the state. Mostly in nearby Arizona, the reservation of the Navajo Nation ranks as the largest in the United States with 16 million acres. The prehistorically agricultural Pueblo Indians resides in pueblos scattered all over the state, many older than any European settlement.
The vast majority of whom related from the original Spanish colonists in the northern portion of the state by more than a third of New Mexicans claim Hispanic origin. Most of the significantly fewer recent Mexican immigrants live in the southern part of the state.
There are many New Mexicans who also speak a exclusive dialect of Spanish. New Mexican Spanish has vocabulary often unheard of to other Spanish speakers. Because of the historical segregation of New Mexico from other speakers of the Spanish dialect, the local language preserves some late medieval Castilian terminology considered archaic elsewhere, takes on many Native American words for local features, and contains much Anglicized terminologies for American modern inventions and concepts.
The presence of different indigenous Native American society, the deep-rooted Mexican and Spanish influence, and the assortment of Anglo-American settlement in the region, ranging from pioneer ranchers and farmers in the territorial era to military families in later years, make New Mexico above all diverse state. There are atomic museums and natural history in Albuquerque, which also hosts the well-known Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta.
A huge artistic community thrives in Santa Fe. The capital city has museums of Navajo ceremonial, modern Native American, Spanish colonial, international folk, and other modern art. Another museum pay tribute to late resident Georgia O'Keeffe. Colonies for writers and artists prosper, and the small city filled with art galleries. In August, the city hosts the annual Santa Fe Indian Market, which is the largest and oldest juried Native American art showcase in the world.
Performing arts include the well-known Santa Fe Opera which presents five operas in repertory every July up to August, the Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival held each summer, and the brought back Lensic Theater a key venue for many kinds of performances. The weekend after Labor Day shows off the burning of Zozobra, a 50 ft marionette, during Fiestas de Santa Fe. Writer Lawrence lived close to Taos in the 1920s at the D. H. Lawrence Ranch where there is a shrine said to hold his ashes.
|
|