Rick Hendricks The Indian New Deal

This Fireside Chat took place on Sunday September 25th, 2022 at the Santa Fe Woman's Club in Santa Fe New Mexico. The event was hosted by the New Mexico Chapter of the National New Deal Preservation Association

Rick Hendricks, PhD, is the New Mexico State Records Administrator. He was State Historian from 2010 until 2019. He received his BA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1977 and his PhD from the University of New Mexico in 1985. He also studied history of Spain in the Americas at the Universidad de Sevilla. Rick is a former editor of the Vargas Project at the University of New Mexico. After the conclusion of the Vargas Project, he worked at New Mexico State University, most notably on the Durango Microfilming Project, helping to produce and edit a 1,400-page guide to the collection. At NMSU Rick also taught courses in colonial Latin America and Mexican history. He has written extensively on the history of the American Southwest and Mexico. He has written, cowritten, and coedited more than twenty books. His most recent book, Pueblo Indian Sovereignty: Land and Water in New Mexico and Texas (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2019), was coauthored with his long-time writing partner, Malcolm Ebright. Malcolm and Rick have a new book coming out soon on Pablo Abeita of Isleta Pueblo.