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Whether we call it Columbus Day, Día de la Raza, or Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I value it all the same.
It’s not a day of rage. It’s a day to remember our ancestors and remind ourselves to look toward the future. They persevered, they adapted, they birthed a new world.
It’s not a day of rage. It’s a day to remember our ancestors and remind ourselves to look toward the future. They persevered, they adapted, they birthed a new world.
The photo is one of my great great grandmothers on her wedding day. I know very little about her but when u was young I told my mom I hoped I would grow up to look like her because she was so pretty.
She was “full blood” but married a mestizo from a village over the mountain.
She was “full blood” but married a mestizo from a village over the mountain.
Women like her were in a way the most pivotal piece of the history of New Spain.
Very few Spanish women came to the new world, unlike the British colonies. These women - whether by force, by choice, or some combination of the two - are the mothers of our cultures and nations.
Very few Spanish women came to the new world, unlike the British colonies. These women - whether by force, by choice, or some combination of the two - are the mothers of our cultures and nations.
In New Mexico, we really didn’t celebrate Columbus Day but rather Día de la Raza.
If you’re Mexican or Mexican adjacent - you’re familiar with Malintzin, or La Malinche. Little is known, but her role was critical in the collapse of the Mexica.
https://daily.jstor.org/who-was-la-malinche/
If you’re Mexican or Mexican adjacent - you’re familiar with Malintzin, or La Malinche. Little is known, but her role was critical in the collapse of the Mexica.
https://daily.jstor.org/who-was-la-malinche/
If you’re hispanoparlante, this is a pretty cool feature length film out of México about her.
