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MARCH 23, 2001

In 1998, a group called "Native Americans and Native New Mexicans" claimed responsibility for vandalizing a statue of Spanish conquistador Don Juan de Oñate.

The group cut off Oñate's foot to symbolize his actions against the men of Acoma Pueblo. After they revolted against the Spanish, he ordered the feet of adult men in the Pueblo be cut off.

No one knows where the foot is or much about it happened. But The Albuquerque Journal is looking into it again because a fictionalized account of how it may happened appears in a book called "The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams."

The book was written by an author calling himself Nasdijj, who says his mother claimed to be Navajo.

Get the Story:
Oñate's Foot - a Legend Grows (The Albuquerque Journal 3/23)

Relevant Links:
Nasdijj's Website - http://nasdijj.00books.com
Nasdijj Interview, About.Com - http://www.writerexchange.about.com/arts/
writerexchange/library/weekly/aa120500a.htm