From The Santa Fe New Mexican:

Feb. 8, 1913: Fifteen leaders from 11 of the 19 pueblo tribes of New Mexico, some of them gay with vari-colored blankets, red and white moccasins and big silver earrings, presented themselves today at the Interior Department in Washington, D.C., to ask the secretary to accept their 600,000 acres of land in trust, that it might avoid state taxation.

Feb. 8, 1988: Two Soviet citizens passed through Santa Fe this weekend to listen to a Mozart concert and bring a message of peace. Composer Alexandr Zhurbin and publisher Georgi Andjaparidze of Moscow paid a brief visit to the city after participating in the Soviet-American Citizens’ Summit conducted last week in Alexandria, Va.