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FILE - In this June 1, 2005, file photo, Reies Lopez Tijerina, 79, a land grant activist who led a 1967 raid on the Rio Arriba Courthouse in New Mexico, poses for a photo in Albuquerque, N.M. Lopez Tijerina, a champion of Chicanos' land-rights claims and the leader of a group that raided a northern New Mexico courthouse nearly 50 years ago, has died, Monday, Jan. 19, 2015, at age 88. Family representative Estela Reyes-Lopez said the prominent activist died Monday at an El Paso, Texas, hospital, of natural cases. Nephew Luis Tijerina also confirmed the death. (AP Photo/The Albuquerque Tribune, Stacia Spragg, File)
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