Editing Taos, New Mexico (section)

===U.S. territory and statehood===
Mexico ceded the region to the U.S. in the [[Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo]] in 1848 after the [[Mexican–American War]]. After the U.S. takeover of New Mexico in 1847, Hispanics and American Indians in Taos staged a rebellion, known as the [[Taos Revolt]], in which the newly appointed U.S. Governor, [[Charles Bent]], was killed. New Mexico was a territory of the United States beginning in 1850 and became a state in 1912.

For historical reasons, the American flag is displayed continuously at [[Taos Plaza]] (both day and night). This derives from the time of the [[American Civil War]], when Confederate sympathizers in the area attempted to remove the flag. The Union officer [[Kit Carson]] sought to discourage this activity by having guards surround the area and fly the flag 24&nbsp;hours a day.<ref>{{cite book|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=nfwRPe99u6QC | author= O'Neill, Zora | title=Santa Fe, Taos, & Albuquerque| publisher=Moon Handbooks| year=2006| page=95| access-date= July 24, 2009 | isbn=978-1-56691-879-4 }}</ref>

[[Anton Docher]], the "Padre of Isleta", first served as a priest in Taos before leaving for [[Isleta]] in 1891.<ref>{{cite book | author=Crane, L. |title=Desert Drums: the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, 1540–1928 | year=1972 |publisher=Rio Grande Press}} {{page needed | date = October 2022}}</ref>