Editing Juan de Oñate (section)

===Texas===
In 1997 the City of [[El Paso, Texas|El Paso]] hired the sculptor [[John Sherrill Houser]] to create an [[equestrian statue]] of the conquistador. In reaction to protests, two city council members retracted their support for the project.<ref name="nyt02"/> The [[US$|$]]2,000,000 statue took nearly nine years to build and was kept in the sculptor's Mexico City warehouse. The statue was completed in early 2006, transported in pieces on flatbed trailers to El Paso during the summer, and installed in October. The controversy over the statue prior to its installation was the subject of the documentary film ''The Last Conquistador'', presented in 2008 as part of [[PBS]]'s ''[[P.O.V.]]'' television series.<ref name="pov">[https://www.pbs.org/pov/lastconquistador/ POV – The Last Conquistador]</ref><ref>Vimeo: [https://vimeo.com/25785588 ''The Last Conquistador'']</ref>
 
The City of El Paso unveiled the eighteen [[ton]], {{convert|34|ft|m|adj=mid|-tall}} statue in a ceremony on April 21, 2007.  Oñate is mounted atop his [[Andalusian horse]] and holds the [[La Toma]] declaration in his right hand. It is one of the [[List of the tallest statues in the United States|tallest statues in the United States.]] According to Houser, it is the largest and heaviest bronze equestrian statue in the world.

The statue precipitated controversy due to Oñate being tried and convicted for many crimes including brutality against the Ácoma Pueblo tribe,<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Perez |first1=Frank |title=Deconstructing Eurocentric Tourism and Heritage Narratives in Mexican American Communities: Juan De Oñate as a West Texas Icon |last2=Ortega |first2=Carlos |publisher=Milton: Routledge |year=2020 |isbn=978-0-367-13679-6 |location=New York |pages=76 |language=en}}</ref> and was protested by groups such as the Ácoma tribe during the development of the project as well as at the inauguration. To defuse some of the controversy, the statue was renamed "The Equestrian".<ref>{{Cite web|last=The 12 Travelers of the Southwest|date=|title=The Equestrian {{!}} XII Travelers Memorial of the Southwest|url=https://www.xiitravelers.org/onate.html|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref> The statue was vandalized in June 2020.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=12 June 2020|title='The Equestrian' Don Juan de Oñate statue at El Paso airport vandalized|url=https://kfoxtv.com/news/local/the-equestrian-don-juan-de-oate-statue-at-el-paso-airport-vandalized|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref>