Rodriguez, Eufelia,Dominguez, Margarita and Pilar

Authors

1140 1. 030

Document Type

Audio

Publication Date

1977

Comments

Memories of the time when she was in school  in Chamisal, her teachers. She attended middle school in Taos close to her mother's job. Her mother was a dressmaker. Attended to San Cristobal School until her mother passed away. The Christmas celebrations when she was young; knocking at neighbors' doors to ask for sweets, Indian dances, el día de San Lorenzo celebrated on August 10. Las Pascuas [Easter] celebrations: meatless days, comían panocha, tazajos [Squash jerky], posole. Los Penitentes processions, funerals, capirotada y arroz con pasas, how they prepared panochas, los molinos. Foods during Christmas; empanaditas, posole, chicos, menudo. Her mother used to work in their ranch and out cleaning for other people. Two other elder females talk about their chores in the ranch, family stories, growing with grandparents, poverty and economic struggles during the Great Depression. Games they used to play when they were little girls; 'El Gato pie rincón'  y el 'juego del ratón' and other cuentos they remember when they used to work in La Cienega.

Recommended Citation

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