Victor David López in the Ruins of a Colonial Building

Victor David López in the Ruins of a Colonial Building

Victor David López, a retired schoolteacher, traces his family history back to the early Genízaros and Hopi who first lived on Abiquiú land. He remains devoted to researching and understanding the legal history of the land grant. As López notes, the Pueblo de Abiquiú was long referred to as an Indian pueblo, but in a 1909 patent document, the U.S. government referred to the community’s inhabitants as “the converted half-breed Indians of the Pueblo of Abiquiú.”

Photo by Russel Albert Daniels