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Show 32 When New Mexico got too far out of line, as in the matter of taxation, she could be checked by the Congress: With the admission of New Mexico to statehood, however, a sharp reversal occurred in these tendencies. The termination of the Territorial government created a clear distinction between State and Federal authority and the center of control over the Pueblos shifted from Santa Fe to Washington. Thus the Pueblos came to be treated more and more as other Indian tribes (Federal Indian Law, 902). The turning point was marked by the Congressional requirement that the Enabling Act for New Mexico include the language cited above clearly stating the position of the Congress by its insuring maintenance of Federal controls in relations between the Pueblo Indians, the state of New Mexico, and the actions of citizens of New Mexico. That it was correct for the Congress to assume this position would be affirmed by the Supreme Court's findings in the Sandoval Decision, 1913. VI In order to enable you to appreciate the reality of the control of relations with the Indians by individual colonies, we reproduce here examples of the actions of particular colonies as found in the Cyrus Thomas introduction to Charles C. Royce, compiler, Indian Land Cessions in the United States (Bureau of American Ethnology, 18th Annual Report, Part 2, Washington, GPO, 1899), selected from pp. 562 to 640. |