People scramble after man who identified himself to the Journal as Ryan Martinez pulls a gun during a rally outside the Rio Arriba County building in Española on Thursday. The man scrambling at lower left was not the man shot.
People scramble after man who identified himself to the Journal as Ryan Martinez pulls a gun during a rally outside the Rio Arriba County building in Española on Thursday. The man scrambling at lower left was not the man shot.
Activists held banners reading “Do Not! Resurrect Oñate.” They broke out into chants of “Land Back.” And several, including Jennifer Marley of San Ildefonso Pueblo gave speeches with a wired microphone denouncing colonialism.
They were there to celebrate Rio Arriba County officials’ decision to postpone plans to relocate a controversial statue of conquistador Juan de Oñate just outside the County Annex building Thursday morning in Española.
8+ pictures of Juan de Oñate statue rally in Española
Rescue workers attend to a man who was shot at a rally outside the Rio Arriba County building in Española, Thursday, September 28, 2023.
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Jennifer Marley, San Ildefonso Pueblo, and other hug after a man was shot during a rally outside the Rio Arriba County building, in Española, Thursday, September 28, 2023. The rally was in protest of a statue of Juan de Oñate that was to be resurrected.
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A woman screams at a man wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat, after a man was shot during a rally outside the Rio Arriba County building, in Española, Thursday, September 28, 2023. The rally was in protest of a statue of Juan de Oñate that was to be resurrected.
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Ryan Martinez
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Ryan Martinez, right, touches a shrine made from a pedestal where a statue of Juan de Oñate was to be placed outside a Rio Arriba County building in Española on Thursday. Moore, a veteran Journal photojournalist, had engaged both the accused shooter (Martinez) and the victim in the moments before the shooting.
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Jacob Johns, Hopi/Akimel O'odham, from Spokane Washington, stands in front of an altar made from a pedestal where a statue of Juan de Oñate was to go. This is during a rally outside the Rio Arriba County building in Española on Sept. 28, 2023. He was later shot during the event.
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Jacob Johns, left, Hopi/Akimel O’odham, from Spokane, Wash., holds a sign while Justine Teba of Santa Clara speaks during a rally outside the Rio Arriba County Annex building in Española on Sept. 28. Johns was shot later in the rally.
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Jacob Johns sings in front of an altar made from a pedestal where a statue of Juan de Oñate was to go, during a rally outside the Rio Arriba County Annex building in Española on Thursday.
Workers with Rio Arriba County remove the sculpture of Juan de Oñate in June, 2020. A ceremony re-dedicating the statue on Thursday, over three years later, has apparently been postponed.
Nearly a year after a protest that resulted in a shooting, the statue of Juan de Oñate that sparked the conflict remains absent from the lead of the “La Jornada” sculpture in front of the Albuquerque Museum.
APD officers take armed members of the New Mexico Civil Guard into custody after a man was shot by one of their members while demonstrators try to take down the statue of Don Juan de Onate Statue in Old Town during a protest on Monday June 15, 2020.
An APD officer right, takes a member of the New Mexico Civil Guard into custody after a man was shot during the protest to remove the statue of Don Juan de Onate Statue in Old Town l .Photographed on Monday June 15, 2020.Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal
An armed member of the New Mexico Civil Guard stands by as curandera Alma Rosa Silva-Banuelos burns incense during a demonstration to remove the statue of Juan de Oñate in Old Town Albuquerque in 2020.
Part of the multi-figured scupture "La Jornada" by Sculptors Reynaldo "Sonny" Rivera and Betty Sabo at the Albuquerque Museum in Old Town commissioned through the City of Albuquerque Public Art Program on Monday, July 7, 2014.
Workers with Rio Arriba County removed the scupture of Juan de Onate from the Onate Center in Acalde Monday June 14 2020. Crowds of people for and against the removal lined Highway 68 in front of the center.
The sculpture of Juan de Onate, that was removed from the Onate Center, now sits in the corner of the Rio Arriba County maintenance garage in Acalde, Wednesday April 14, 2021.
em041421d/jnorth/The pedistal where a sculpture of Juan de Onate stood outside the Onate Center in Acalde until it was removed last June. Photo shot Wednesday April 14, 2021. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)
jt061320g/a sec/jim Thompson/Workers try to do a controlled fall of the Juan de Onate statue in the lead of the "La Jornada " sculpture in front of the Albuquerque Museum. Tuesday, June,16, 2019. (Jim Thompson/Albuquerque Journal)
apl061520jASECTION /Pierre-Louis/Journal/061520 . Curandera Alma Rosa Silva-Banuelos burns incense during a demonstration to remove the statue of Don Juan de Onate Statue in Old Town .Photographed on Monday June 15, 2020.Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Journal
A worker uses a jackhammer to chip away the footings of Juan de Onate in the lead of the "La Jornada " sculpture in front of the Albuquerque Museum. Tuesday, June,16, 2019.
Onate High School is pictured in Las Cruces, New Mexico, on June 17, 2020. The Las Cruces School Board voted Tuesday, July 14, 2020, to drop the name of Don Juan de Onate y Salazar from a high school in southern New Mexico after years of pressure and amid a movement to reexamine the Spanish colonial past in the American Southwest.
