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50-YEAR Anniversary of the Return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo
Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Source: Taos Pueblo
Taos Pueblo, its Tribal Council, Governor’s Office and War Chief’s Office, who are responsible for asserting the Pueblo’s sovereign and inherent rights to protect its people and its lands, its culture and its way of life will observe the fifty-year anniversary of the “Return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo” on December 15, 2020 as a quiet private remembrance due to the on-going dangers of the pandemic.
We respectfully invite observance of that day in spirit, the anniversary of the date when PL 91-550, the Blue Lake legislation was signed into law by President Richard M. Nixon. We especially thank all those who supported us in the long 64 year struggle many who are no longer with us and we are thankful that these ancestral lands were rightfully returned to Taos Pueblo.
In 1906 the Taos Pueblo people and its lands, its culture and its way of life were severely threatened when Blue Lake and surrounding lands that are an integral part of the Taos Pueblo culture and traditions were taken away from the Pueblo by the Federal Government to become a federal Forest Reserve. After this occurred a struggle began that was to last 64 years through numerous Taos Pueblo administrations and generations of Taos Pueblo people, until 1970, when Blue Lake itself was returned through PL 91-550.

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