1.1.3 Cobos Interview, camera 1, part 3 - 6/16/1994

Authors

• 1 cam1 part3

Document Type

Video

Publication Date

1994

Comments

Continuation from part 2 with conversations about interviewing people, how he got started in Wagon Mound, recounts cuentecito de la gara en la Iglesia, and discusses NM word usage, first informant in his language studies, anecdotes of various interviews he did in Northern NM and Albuquerque, New Mexican folklore and canciones (“en tema no en forma”), romances españoles and corridos; politca in UNM and  Highlands, George I. Sanchez, 1940 racist questionnaire at UNM, Cuarto Centenario and LULAC’s opposition, Americano tourism,  La Conquistadora imagery and name change to Our Lady of Light, Oñate celebrations, mistreatment of Native Americans, Hispano / Native American relationships, NM colonial history; El Paso del Norte / Ciudad Juarez naming, general colonial history; return to discussion on Latin American work as with US federal government  and translator “la censura” in San Antonio, return to US armed services in Virginia, military intelligence work, return to teach Spanish classes in Maryland, end of tape.

Recommended Citation

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