That’s when the federal government returned the Blue Lake watershed to his tribe. “Now we don’t have to hide when we go up into the mountains,” said Suazo, a former Taos Pueblo governor.

J.R. Logan TAOS — Forty years ago, President Richard Nixon signed a bill that returned Blue Lake and its watershed to Taos Pueblo — 48,000 acres that the tribe had long considered sacred.

Today is the 50th anniversary of the Blue Lake Act, signed into law by President Richard Nixon, which returned 48,000 acres of sacred, traditional land to the Taos Pueblo Tribe of northern New Mexico ...

The hike: Five miles inland from Arcata, the earthy hamlet of Blue Lake boasts sunny skies, the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre - a leading trainer of clowns for the Cirque du ...