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AKA: Tio Carlos, Tio Charles. (1847-1929) German-born Jew who arrived in the Taos area in 1865; apprenticed to and soon partnered with merchant/trader Adolph Letcher, who moved A. Letcher and Company to Las Vegas. Married Adele Nordhaus. Bought out Letcher in 1874 and formed the Charles Ilfeld Company, with its flagship store Ilfeld's on the Plaza in Las Vegas. Eventually five Ilfeld brothers were involved in the mercantile business of New Mexico, and the stores expanded to Watrous, Tecolote, Santa Rosa, Pastura, Corona, Gallup, Raton, Magdalena, Mountainair, and Farmington. At the time of Ilfeld's death, the company did much of the wholesale and retail distribution in northern New Mexico.
State Historian webpage on Charles Ilfeld

First organized in 1922 by a group of Santa Fe anthropologists, writers, and art patrons as the Pueblo Pottery Fund, with the purpose of preserving and reviving the arts and crafts of the Pueblo people by collecting outstanding examples and making them available for study and inspiration. The group also sought to preserve many examples of Native American weavings and baskets gathered during archaeological and anthropological research. Incorporated as the Indian Arts Fund (IAF) in 1925, the group eventually amassed a superb collection of traditional Southwest Indian pottery, textiles, baskets, jewelry, paintings, clothing, and other objects. When the IAF disbanded in 1972, the collection was deeded to the School for Advanced Research and is now overseen by their Indian Arts Research Center.

AKA: IARC. A division of the School for Advanced Research (SAR), established in 1978 to house the collection of Native American art left to the SAR after the disbanding of the Indian Arts Fund. The goal of IARC is "to bridge the divide between creativity and scholarship by supporting initiatives and projects in Native studies, art history, and creative expression that illuminate the intersections of the social sciences, humanities, and arts."

AKA: ICCC; Civilian Conservation Corps, Indian Division; CCC-ID; Indian Emergency Conservation Work; IECW. Division of the Civilian Conservation Corps program, 1933-1942, aimed specifically at male Native American tribal members 17-35. The ICCC focused on works around tribal lands including erosion control, roads, bridges, clinics, and dams, and was noted for a strong emphasis on education programs and vocational training. Approximately 85,000 Native Americans enrolled in the program.

First motion picture filmed in New Mexico, 1897. An early effort of the Edison Company, featuring Isleta Pueblo.

See Indian Reorganization Act

AKA: Indian New Deal, I.R.A. Enacted June 18, 1934. The Act was intended to restore a greater degree of communal control over land to tribal Native Americans, reversing the practice of breaking up reservation lands and assigning parcels to individuals (as had been established under the Dawes Act). The Indian Reorganization Act was designed to reinforce autonomy, sovereignty, and economic independence for the tribes, but the Act has been legally challenged several times.

Resort, golf course and ski area built in 1975, on Mescalero Apache land on Sierra Blanca Mountain near Ruidoso. The resort was the first such to be built on reservation land, and became the model for similar tribal projects around the country, providing income for the tribe and employment for tribal members. The Inn offers 273 rooms, convention space, big game hunting, skiing, an 18-hole golf course, and a casino (one of the first to be developed on tribal land, before such practice became common.)

See New Mexico Museum of Space History

AKA: Roswell UFO Museum. Roswell, on Main Street in a former theater. Non-profit educational organization founded in 1991 by two men involved in the history of "The Roswell Incident". The Museum features a range of displays on the Incident in particular and theories on UFOs in general; with no particular agenda, displays contradicting one another sometimes appear side-by-side. The Research Center houses an extensive collection of UFO books, videos, and clippings, plus several donated collections from UFO researchers. The Museum draws thousands of visitors from around the world, particularly during the Roswell UFO Festival, during which it hosts lectures.

Officially referred to as "relocation centers" or "relocation camps". Three internment camps for Japanese-Americans were located in New Mexico during WWII, in Lordsburg, Ft. Stanton, and most notably in Santa Fe, where over 4,500 men were incarcerated 1942-46. (Initially reserved for interned Japanese-Americans, the Lordsburg and Ft. Stanton camps were later during WWII used for enemy POWs, mostly German and Italian; when these POWs were brought in, the Japanese-American internees were moved to the Santa Fe camp.) Book by the National Park Service: Confinement in the Land of Enchantment.
State Historian webpage on Internment Camps in New Mexico

See Gallup Inter-Tribal Indian Ceremonial

See Sibley's New Mexico Campaign

See Roswell Iron Cross

See Socorro Isopod