UNM-Taos Library: The Return of Blue Lake: Books &amp; Journal Articles

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Books & Book Chapters on Blue Lake

Books (including book chapters) listed in chronological order.

Taos Pueblo and Its Sacred Blue Lake by Marcia Keegan; Forewords by Stewart L. Udall & Frank Waters
Call Number: E99.T2 K43 2010 (UNM-Taos Library), Indigenous People - IP 970.489 Kee (Taos Public Library)
ISBN: 9781574160994
Publication Date: 2010-08-01
Expanded anniversary edition. Originally published 1972.
The return of Blue Lake: 20-year Commemoration Celebration, September 7 & 8, 1991, Taos Pueblo by Taos Pueblo. Commemoration Committee.
Call Number: Special Collection: SC sw 978.953 T171r (Taos Public Library)
Publication Date: 1991
Note: Non-Check Out
The Taos Indians and the Battle for Blue Lake by R. C. Gordon-McCutchan; Foreword by Frank Waters
Call Number: E99 .T2 G67 1991 (UNM-Taos Library), Special Collection - SC sw 978.9 G665t (Taos Public Library)
ISBN: 9781878610126
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
Originally Published 1991
Pueblo Profiles by Joe S. Sando; Alfonso Ortiz (Contribution by)
Call Number: E99.P9 S188 1998 (UNM-Taos Library), Indigenous People - IP 970.49 San (Taos Public Library)
ISBN: 9780940666399
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
Chapter 10, "The Blue Lake Story, Taos Pueblo."
Four Square Leagues by Malcolm Ebright
Call Number: F791 .E37 2014 (UNM-Taos Library), Indigenous People - IP 978.9 Ebr (Taos Public Library)
ISBN: 9780826354730
Publication Date: 2014-01-01
Chapter 11, "Taos Pueblo and the Return of Blue Lake"
Available as a eBook for UNM-Taos Students; click on title above.
Sacred Blue Lake by Costanza Pollier (author), Vanessa Balleza (illustrator)
Call Number: JUV PZ7.1 Sac 2017 (UNM-Taos Library)
ISBN: 9780692911198
Publication Date: 2017-04-18
Children's Book
Indigenous Peoples and Sacred Natural Sites by Jonathan Liljeblad & Bas Verschuuren (Editors)
ISBN: 9780815377009
Publication Date: 2018-12-20
Chapter "Taos Pueblo Blue Lake: A Legacy of Cultural Perseverance" by Vernon Lujan.
Not currently available at UNM-Taos or Taos Public Library

Journal Articles on Blue Lake

Articles listed in chronological order.

Dean M. Kelley. “Guest Editorial: The Impairment of the Religious Liberty of the Taos Pueblo Indians by The United States Government.” Journal of Church and State, Volume 9, Issue 2, Spring 1967, pp. 161–164. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/9.2.161
Archibeck, Ronald P. "Taos Indians and the Blue Lake Controversy." Diss. University of New Mexico, 1971. UNM Digital Repository. https://digitalrepository.unm.edu/hist_etds/257/
Bodine, John J. “Blue Lake: A Struggle for Indian Rights.” American Indian Law Review, vol. 1, no. 1, 1973, pp. 23–32. https://doi.org/10.2307/20067803
Witheridge, David E. “Guest Editorial: No Freedom of Religion for American Indians.” Journal of Church and State, vol. 18, no. 1, 1976, pp. 5–19. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcs/18.1.5
Bodine, John J. “Taos Blue Lake Controversy.” Journal of Ethnic Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 1978, pp. 42-48.
Deverell, William F. “The Return of Blue Lake to the Taos Pueblo.” The Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. 49, no. 1, 1987, pp. 57–73. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26404208
Hecht, Robert A. "Taos Pueblo and the Struggle for Blue Lake." American Indian Culture and Research Journal Vol. 13, No. 1, 1989, pp. 53-77. Https://uclajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.17953/aicr.13.1.m73205856v8567x6
Gordon-McCutchan, RC. "The Battle for Blue Lake: A Struggle for Indian Religious Rights." Journal of Church & State. 1991, Vol. 33, No.4, pp. 785-796. doi:10.1093/jcs/33.4.785
Graybill, A. “‘Strong on the Merits and Powerfully Symbolic’: The Return of Blue Lake to Taos Pueblo.” New Mexico Historical Review, Vol. 76, No. 2, 2001. pp. 125-160. https://ejournals.unm.edu/index.php/nmhr/article/view/2343
Berger, Bethany."Natural Resources and the Making of Modern Indian Law." Connecticut Law Review. 404. https://opencommons.uconn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1406&context=law_review

Other Academic Material

Stumpff, Linda Moon. "Through the Taos Pueblo Lens: Values and Emerging Strategies for Protecting Wild Lands and Waters."
From the Enduring Legacies Native Cases Initiative, a multiparty project that offers culturally relevant curriculum and teaching resources in the form of case studies.