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camera icon © Miroslav Liska/Dreamstime Today is the 50th anniversary of the Blue Lake Act, signed into law by President Richard Nixon, which returned 48,000 acres of sacred, traditional land to the Taos Pueblo Tribe of northern New Mexico after a 64-year struggle. Blog Post Honor Indigenous history at these 15 sites where visitors can learn about the extensive connections tribes have with today’s national parks. See more › Blue Lake lies high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains at the top of the Rio Pueblo de Taos, whose waters run through the tr...

"Now we don't have to hide when we go up into the mountains," Gilbert Suazo said in a recent interview. "Now, we can freely go where we want to go on our lands and not have to worry about getting arrested or prosecuted." Suazo, a Taos Pueblo councilman and former tribal governor, said the joy of being able to practice his Native religion unencumbered by outside control was indescribable. It was a spiritual burden finally lifted 50 years ago, when he and his fellow tribal members conducted their first ceremonials after President Richard Nixon signed legislation in Washington D.C., returning th...

That’s when the federal government returned the Blue Lake watershed to his tribe. “Now we don’t have to hide when we go up into the mountains,” said Suazo, a former Taos Pueblo governor. “Now, we can freely go where we want to go on our lands and not have to worry about getting arrested or prosecuted.” Suazo and fellow tribal members conducted their first ceremonials in December 1970 after President Richard Nixon signed legislation returning Blue Lake to the people of Taos Pueblo. However, many who started the 64-year journey to have the sacred lands returned nev...