Valdez, Juan (Valdez, NM)

Authors

1140 1. 007

Document Type

Audio

Publication Date

5-27-1975

Comments

Irrigation, Water Rights, land inherited by his father and later sold to relatives who continue to farm and use water from the acequias for irrigation. Women were in charge of managing water to irrigate their plots and sustain their families with the produce and crops they harvested while their husbands migrated out of state for seasonal jobs during the Spring and Summer. Places of reunion for socializing : La Resolana, telling chistes, cuentos de brujas, bailes, cleaning the crops. Conversation ends singing farewell corrido and other stories about superstitions.

Recommended Citation

Anselmo Arellano collection (MSS 1140), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University Libraries, University of New Mexico