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Nina Otero-Warren was born to a prominent Spanish land-owning family in Los Lunas, New Mexico, then a territory of the United States. She moved with her family to Santa Fe when her uncle Miguel Otero was appointed teritorial governor, and it is with that city that she is most closely identified. Otero-Warren was intimately involved in the history of New Mexico through her own activities and those of her large, politically active family. Under the guise of widowhood, she gained the freeedom to campaign for suffrage, run for public office, serve as an appointed official, homestead land, and form a real estate company. The matriarch of a large family of sisters, nieces, and nephews, she also led an active social life, striking up friendships with the artists and writers who settled in Santa Fe in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1936 she published Old Spain in Our Southwest. Charlotte Whaley has drawn on interviews with family members and friends, letters, contemporary new accounts, and memoirs to bring to life a woman who successfully negotiated complicated cross-cultural terrain and created a life that transcended the boundaries imposed by early twentieth-century society.

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Nina Otero-Warren of Santa Fe
Charlotte Whaley
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO PRESS ALBUQUERQUE
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1994 by Charlotte T. Whaley
All rights reserved. First Edition
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Whaley, Charlotte, 1925
Nina Otero-Warren of Santa Fe / Charlotte Whaley. 1st ed.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: The years at Los LunasSanta FeA keystone fallsThe educator
Las dosThe matriarchEpilogueChronology.
ISBN 0-8263-1529-1
1. Otero-Warren, Nina, 1881-1965. 2. Hispanic AmericansNew Mexico
Santa FeBiography. 3. Santa Fe (N.M.)Biography. 4. Los Lunas (N.M.)
Biography. 5. Hispanic American childrenEducationNew Mexico. I. Title.
F804.S29S759 1994
978.9'5600468--dc20 94-3214
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Boxed figure is the number of children in the fourth generation Circled figure - photo 2
Boxed figure is the number of children in the fourth generation.
Circled figure is the number of children in the fifth generation.
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In
memory
of
Jack,
Bergere,
and
Cristina
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Contents
Introduction
1
Chapter One
The Years at Los Lunas
7
Chapter Two
Santa Fe
45
Chapter Three
A Keystone Falls
77
Chapter Four
The Educator
101
Chapter Five
Las Dos
131
Chapter Six
The Matriarch
167

Page x
Epilogue
205
Chronology
211
Notes
213
Bibliography
241
Index
247

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Introduction
Nina Otero-Warren, a descendant of Spanish conquistadores, was herself a pioneer. Suffragist, educator, politician, homesteader, writer, and business entrepreneur during the early decades of the twentieth century, she was on the forefront of the first wave of feminism in the country her ancestors had explored and settled three hundred years earlier. In many ways, her life paralleled the life of Santa Fe itself, in that both selected what they wanted from the changes introduced by the Anglo-Americans who poured into New Mexico at the turn of the century, while both retained the spirit and grace of their eighteenth-century Spanish heritage.
Changes came rapidly to New Mexico after the arrival of the railroads in 1881, the year Nina was born. With easier access to new markets in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, American capitalists gradually began appropriating the land and the livelihood of the early aristocratic ricos. The Spanish colonials who had been socially and politically prominent landowners during New Mexico's territorial days found their influence diminishing and the customs and training of their
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ancestors disappearing at an alarming rate. The Anglosall those U.S. immigrants whose nationalities were other than Indian, Spanish, or Mexicanbegan taking over in the name of progress and prosperity.
Mara Adelina Isabel Emilia (Nina) Otero-Warren attempted to preserve the best of her native culture and at the same time find a place for herself in the emerging new order. She lived in Santa Fe from the time she was sixteen until her death at eighty-three, moving there in 1897 from Los Lunas, New Mexico, where she was born into a distinguished family that traced its origins back to eleventh-century Spain.
Conservative in many ways, but rarely a conformist, Nina Otero-Warren had an easy grace and intelligence that attracted others to her. While her marriage in 1908 to cavalry Lieutenant Rawson Warren failed, she maintained her strong sense of personal worth and, with her family's support, proceeded to build several stellar careers for herself. She had no children of her own, but after her mother's death she helped bring up her nine brothers and sisters and some of their offspring in the "Big House" at 135 Grant Avenue, now one of Santa Fe's historical landmarks.
Nina took advantage of the new era opening for women in 1914, when the demand for woman suffrage began earnestly in Santa Fe. As a leader in Alice Paul's Congressional Union, helping through her fluency in English and Spanish to persuade both Anglo and Hispanic women to join the fight for the franchise, she became one of the CU's most influential organizers.
From 1917 to 1929, Nina served as superintendent of public schools in Santa Fe County, first by appointment and then by winning election to the position that had previously been held by men. In 1922, she became the Republican party's nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives, the first woman to win a primary election in New Mexico. In the days of the Roosevelt presidency and the Work Projects Administration, she was made director of the state's
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