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Article: PART-INDIAN STAYED LOYAL TO SPANISH CAUSE.(Local News)
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- The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
- Article date:
- September 12, 2009
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Byline: MARC SIMMONS
Long known to historians of colonial New Mexico is the name of Jose Lopez Naranjo. In the years after 1700, he played a key role in defending the province from hostile Indians.
Details of his career are thin, but the scraps of information we do have suggest that he was a multitalented individual.
The late Fray Angelico Chavez indicated that Jose's father was Domingo Naranjo, an Indian from Mexico, probably an Aztec or Tlaxcalan. The mother is not identified, but Fray Angelico said that records classify Jose as a lobo, or person of mixed ancestry.
Oddly, writers of history have usually identified Naranjo as a native ...