The Westerner Blog – Voices of the West

A new perspective on New Mexican history

February 4, 2019 admin News

From The Westerner Blog It’s one of the most complicated stories to come from Santa Fe’s 400-year-old Palace of the Governors. Don Pedro Villasur, commander-in-chief of the Spanish forces of the then-Spanish colony of New Mexico

Parrots may have been bred by Native Americans 1,000 years ago in SW

August 15, 2018 admin News

From The Westerner Blog Native Americans may have kept a breeding colony of scarlet macaws in the American Southwest starting more than 1,000 years ago, a new study finds. The birds were raised for their