"How great must be the pain in our hearts on seeing ourselves violently despoiled of our rightful ownership, all the more when this violent despoilment was executed while they threatened us with the illegal pretext of removing us from our pueblo and distributing us among the others of the Territory. Please, Your Excellency, see if by chance the natives of our pueblo for whom we speak are denied property and the shelter of the laws of our liberal system. Indeed, Sir, has the right of ownership and security that every citizen enjoys in his possession been abolished?"
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Rafael Aguilar and Jose Cota, of Pecos Pueblo, to governor Manuel Armijo (Mar. 9, 1829) as quoted by John L. Kessell, Kiva, Cross, and Crown (1979)
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