Background Information:
These 40 video interviews are part of the Center for Southwest Research Anselmo Arellano collection. The interviews, conducted mostly by Anselmo Arellano, were of regional community elders - a relationship formed through extended kinship and cultural ties. The intentions of the interviewer and the participants were to document and transfer community knowledge and local and family history for educational purposes and also to preserve Nuevomexicano culture and spoken Spanish language. Most of the interviews were part of Arellano's research on the history/culture of the Las Vegas, New Mexico area. (See also the Spanish Language Audio Interviews series from his collection.)
Original VHS tapes were digitized and uploaded onto UNM Digital Repository by CSWR Archivist, Samuel Sisneros.
For bio of Anselmo Arellano and to learn more about the collection see finding guide to the Anselmo Arellano collection (MSS 1140), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, Zimmerman Library, University of New Mexico.: New Mexico Archives Online
Copyrights:
The video files are made accessible for purposes of education and research. Reproduction of works protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners.
New Mexico Spanish Language Archival Recovery Project:
The Anselmo Arellano collection's Spanish language oral History interviews series is one of the ethnographic oral history collections archived at the Center for Southwest Research (CSWR) that are part of the New Mexico Spanish Language Archival Recovery Project. Initiated in 2025 by archivist Samuel Sisneros and Center for Regional Studies graduate fellow, Feliza Monta Jameson, the objective of the project is to consolidate and coordinate CSWR archival collections containing interviews of native New Mexico Spanish speakers. The project involves recovering, regenerating, preserving and extending the ethnographic studies done by earlier investigators, researchers and producers. By using current digital and online technologies, this project intends to bridge the accessibility gap between their work (1960s-1990s) and the present. See all project collections at: New Mexico Spanish Language Archival Recovery Project
Submissions from 1998
Herrera, Feliciano (Cleveland, NM), . .
Mondragón, Fidelina (Cañon de Ratón, NM), . .
Rivera Arellano, Ana (Springer, NM), part 1, . .
Rivera Arellano, Ana (Springer, NM), part 2, . .
Romero, Alberto (Mora, NM) part 1, . .
Romero, Alberto (Mora, NM) part 2, . .
Sandoval, Benjamin (Albuquerque, NM) part 1, . .
Sandoval, Benjamin (Albuquerque, NM) part 2, . .
Trujillo de Romero, Ermelina (Mora, NM), . .
Valdez, Lucas Ismael (Las Aguitas, NM), . .
Vigil, Paul and Francis (Sringer, NM), part 1, . .
Vigil, Paul and Francis (Sringer, NM), part 2, . .
Submissions from 1997
Aragón, Jesuscita, . .
Garcia, Lazaro (Mora, NM), . .
García, Lazaro (Mora, NM) part 1, . .
García, Lazaro (Mora, NM) part 2, . .
Garduño, Esquipula (Wagon Mound, NM), . .
Mares de Pino, Gabrielita (Buena Vista, NM), . .
Martínez, Timoteo (Colmor, NM), . .
Montoya, Zack and Eloisa (Wagon Mound, NM), part 1, . .
Montoya, Zack and Eloisa (Wagon Mound, NM), part 2, . .
Sandoval Chávez, Teresa (Wagon Mound, NM), . .
Sandoval, Damacio and Sandoval Lucia (Las Vegas, NM), . .
Sandoval, Damacio and Sandoval Lucia (Las Vegas, NM), part 2, . .
Submissions from 1996
Aragón, Jesusita (Las Vegas, NM), . .
Chacón de Gonzales, Herminia (El Paso, TX), . .
Mares de Pino, Gabrielita (Albuquerque, NM), part 1, . .
Mares de Pino, Gabrielita (Albuquerque, NM), part 2, . .
Otero, Dolores and García, Evelyn (San Antonio, NM - near Las Vegas), part 1, . .
Otero, Dolores and García, Evelyn (San Antonio, NM - near Las Vegas), part 2, . .
Submissions from 1995
Aragón, Jesusita (Las Vegas, NM), . .
Baca, Erlinda, . .
Zamora, Maclovia (Albuquerque, NM), . .
Submissions from 1994
Gonzales, Manuel and Mary Gonzales (Los Bueyeros / Gallegos, NM) - part 1, . .
Gonzales, Manuel and Mary Gonzales, (Los Bueyeros / Gallegos, NM) - part 2, . .
Maestas, José Eulogio and Clorinda Salazar de Maestas (El Cañoncito, NM) - part 1, . .
Maestas, José Eulogio and Clorinda Salazar de Maestas (El Cañoncito, NM) - part 2, . .
Martínez de Romero, Elaiza; Martinez, Nicolas (Monte Aplanado, NM), . .
Martínez, Miquela and family (Monte Aplanado, NM), part 1, . .
Martínez, Miquela and family (Monte Aplanado, NM), part 2, . .
Martínez Olivas, Carolina (Mora, NM), . .
Martínez Salazar, Celina (Las Vegas, NM), . .
Mascareñas de Duran, Alicia (Rainsville, NM), . .
Rainsville Church Restoration and Landscape (Rainsville, NM), . .
Vásquez, Claudio (Ojo Feliz, NM) - part1, . .
Vásquez, Claudio (Ojo Feliz, NM) - part 2, . .
Submissions from 1993
Hererra, Frank ((El Rito, NM), part 1, . .
Hererra, Frank ((El Rito, NM), part 2, . .
Vialpando, Roberto (Alcalde, NM), part 1, . .
Vialpando, Roberto (Alcalde, NM), part 2, . .
Submissions from 1991
Aragón, Jesusita (Las Vegas, NM), . .
Arellano, Manuel and Eduardo (Aurora, CO.), . .
Submissions from 1986
Arellano, Federico and Petra (Visalia, CA), . .