Native Bound Unbound

Native Bound Unbound is working with Santa Fe marriage, baptism, and burial records from 1776, and we are looking for descendants of the people named below.

SANTA FE MARRIAGES
• Felipe Moya, coyote, married to María Vigil; formerly married to Manuela
• Francisco Antonio, Genízaro, married to Bárbara Antonia Martín
• Don Diego Montoya, Spaniard, married to Doña María Francisca Tafoya
• Salvador Tenorio, married to Ana María Rael
• Juan Jesús Abeyta, widower of María Chávez, married to Juliana Fernández
• Diego Antonio González, married to María Candelaria Apodaca
• José María de Ávila, married to María Bárbara Durán
• Domingo Segura, married to María Guadalupe Leyba

SANTA FE BAPTISMS
• José Miguel, child of José Cristóbal González and Inés Ortiz
• María Juliana, Comanche; godparents Tomás Bernal and Estefana Domínguez
• Miguel Antonio, color quebrado, son of Simón Domínguez and Juana Nepomucena Segura
• Juana María, color quebrado, legitimate daughter of Antonio Trujillo and María Ángela Martín
• María Ventura de la Trinidad, coyota, legitimate daughter of Juan Trujillo and Gertrudis
• María Teodora, color quebrado, legitimate daughter of Juan Lucero and Olaya Durán
• María Antonia, Comanche Indian, in the household of Antonio Rivera, a soldier of the royal presidio, and his wife Graciana Prudencia de Sena, Spaniards
• Nicolás Antonio, color quebrado, legitimate son of Juan Antonio Lucero and Rosa Archuleta

SANTA FE BURIALS
• José Vicente, coyote; his mother was Isabel, and his master was Don José Antonio Ortiz
• Manuel Coca, coyote, married to Olaya Segura
• María Ignacia Romero, Spaniard, married to Alonso Rivera
• María Josefa López, coyota, married to Juan Antonio Lucero
• Judas Tadeo, Apache, married to Margarita, also Apache

With support from NM Spirit and in partnership with educators from across New Mexico, Native Bound Unbound is developing lessons for elementary, middle, and high school students about life in New Mexico in 1776.

We invite descendants, genealogists, and community historians to help us reconnect these records to the families.

Contact Native Bound Unbound: https://nativeboundunbound.org/contact/

Join us at University of New Mexico's George Pearl Hall this evening from 4-6pm MDT for a wonderful symposium featuring our executive director, Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez!

We are delighted to welcome Dr. Miguel Girón as Native Bound Unbound’s first Postdoctoral Fellow! Please join us in welcoming Miguel to the NBU team!

We are delighted to welcome Ismael Pardo as a Fellow with Native Bound Unbound!

Listen to Bob Haozous and his daughter, Dr. Emily Haozous, as they have a conversation about the life and legacy of their ancestor Juan de Dios and the complexity of identity. Thank you StoryCorps for recording and facilitating this conversation.

https://nativeboundunbound.org/stories/view/storycorps-bob-haozous-and-emily-haozous/

On this day 346 years ago, the Pueblo Revolt occurred in New Mexico. One of the causes was the forced labor and tribute under the encomienda system active at the time. The video below is "Surviving Columbus" from NM PBS, and tells the story from the Indigenous perspective.

Today, and every day, NBU is committed to helping preserve and share these histories.

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In 1529, Ocelo, the cacique of Guazama in the Province of Nicaragua, brought a formal complaint against the encomendero Rodrigo Núñez. He accused Núñez of entering Indigenous homes, often at night, abducting men, women, and children, transporting them to León, and branding them on the face as slaves. The proceedings that followed preserved witness testimony, examinations of branded individuals, a judgment, and even an appeal.

More than five centuries later, this remarkable record offers a rare window into the experiences of Indigenous communities confronting colonial violence through the courts. It also reveals, in extraordinary detail, how Indigenous slavery was documented, contested, and recorded in the early Spanish empire.

Read the document in the Native Bound Unbound Archives: https://nativeboundunbound.org/archives/bb6f4f2d-2455-4ea5-932c-c7763c5c3d4b/?query=Rodrigo%20Núñez #/ec