Original sentence: The Tierra Amarilla Grant was created in 1832 by the Mexican government for Manuel Martinez.Tierra Amarilla is best known as the focal point of an armed struggle between the Alianza Federal de Mercedes led by Reies Tijerina and government officials in 1967
Edited sentence: A gunfight in the courthouse ensued resulting in Tijerina and his group fleeing to the south with hostages.Army lieutenant described the village as "the center of Mexican population of northwestern New Mexico".In 1866 the United States Army established Camp Plummer just south of Los Ojos (established in 1860) to rein in already decreased Native American activity on the grant.In 1877 a U.Las Nutrias, the site of the contemporary community, was founded c.The National Guard, FBI and New Mexico State Police successfully pursued Tijerina, who was sentenced to less than three years.The Tierra Amarilla Grant was created in 1832 by the Mexican government for Manuel Martinez and settlers from Abiquiu.The courthouse was raided by land rights activists who were attempting to make a citizen's arrest of the district attorney "to bring attention to the unscrupulous means by which government and Anglo settlers had usurped Hispanic land grant properties".The first post office in Las Nutrias was established in 1866 and bore the name Tierra Amarilla, as did the present one which was established in 1870 after an approximately two-year absence.The grant holders were unable to maintain a permanent settlement due to "raids by Utes, Navajos and Jicarilla Apaches" until early in the 1860s.The military encampment was deserted in 1869.The territorial legislature located Rio Arriba's county seat in Las Nutrias and renamed the village in 1880.When Tierra Amarilla became the county seat the villagers built a courthouse that would serve as the focal point of an armed struggle between the Alianza Federal de Mercedes led by Reies Tijerina and government officials in 1967