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Transcript: Commentary: Christmas Eve 400 years ago was the beginning of a Spanish settlement in New Mexico, one of the first European settlements in the country
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- December 22, 2000
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Commentary: Christmas Eve 400 years ago was the beginning of a Spanish
settlement in New Mexico, one of the first European settlements in
the country
Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon
BOB EDWARDS, host:
Most families have their own Christmas Eve traditions. For commentator
Jamie Candelaria Greene, it's time to remember her Mexican ancestors
who settled in what's now the US Southwest 400 years ago.
JAMIE CANDELARIA GREENE:
Four hundred years ago this Christmas Eve, Governor Juan Ju Onate(ph)
established his second settlement, San Gabriel, in what is now New
Mexico. Spanish explorers and missionaries had already been there
for 60 ...