La del Piñón, a history of New Mexico by Roy E. Howard, Ph.D. Each wave of conquest brought a leader who is long gone, along with men who stayed and became a long term part of New Mexico history by starting families who are still here today. More information: http://www.cantos.org/music/territorial.html
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This version of history is a New Mexico love story. In each verse, the soldier or worker quits his job, declares he has found what he came for, and lives happily ever after with the girl of his dreams: the girl he found by the pinion tree. In this ballad, the true treasure of New Mexico is characterized as the people who continue to live here generation after generation. Many stories are missing from this sampling of history. This tradition continues to the current generations, as my father found his bride in New Mexico in 1938, I found my New Mexico gal in 1970, and both my sons married New Mexico women in the 1990s. As I write this history, I am surrounded by a vast pinion forest in the Zuni Mountains of my New Mexico home. This is a love song to my wife and an honor song to all the New Mexico women. The true treasure we seek for is not possession and power, but acceptance and relationships. Take time to get to know the people of New Mexico, and you will discover the reason that so many visitors have stayed.
Stories of romance missing from this New Mexico timeline: Sandia People, 25000 B.C; Clovis hunters, 10000-9000 B.C.; Folsom People, 9000-8000 B.C.; Cochise People, 10000-500 B.C.; Mogollon Culture, 300-1400 A.D.; Anasazi People, 1-1300 A.D.; 1200 A.D. the Pueblos are established; 1600 A.D. the Navajo and Apache arrive.
1539 Fray Marcos de Niza and Estevan the moor lead an expedition to find the Seven Cities of Cíbola
1540-42 Francisco Vásquez de Coronado explores from the Gulf of Mexico to Kansas
1580 Friar Agustín Rodríguez leads expedition to New Mexico
1598 Juan de Oñate establishes the first Spanish capital of San Juan de los Caballeros at the Tewa village of Ohke
1692 Don Diego de Vargas recolonized New Mexico (after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680)
1846 Stephen Watts Kearny annexes New Mexico to the United States at the beginning of the Mexican-American War
1863-68 Kit Carson led the conquest of the Navajo Nation and initiated the Long Walk
1923 L.E. Teague, drilling for Midwest Refining Company of Texas, struck oil and started NMs first commercial oil well
Chorus
En mi opinión, la del piñón es el tesoro de esta región
In my opinion, the girl by the pinion tree is the treasure of this region
Vete a tu palacio, hombre barbón; yo seguiré a mi corazón.
Go back to your palace, bearded man, I will follow my heart.
¡Ay. corazón!
Oh my heart!
mi galardón, en mi opinión,
my reward, in my opinion,
es la del piñón.
is the girl by the pinion
Roy E. Howard, Ph.D.
Professor,Retired, Bilingual Education
Western New Mexico University
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cormano.
pancho.
maracas!
ay ay ay ya ya ayeee
mongoose100989 2 years ago
feliz navidad.
yo queiro ano y felizidad.
cormando.
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