Herrera Tenorio, Francisca (Albuquerque, NM)
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Document Type
Audio
Publication Date
6-20-1984
Recommended Citation
Atrisco Oral History Project (MSS 565), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University Libraries, University of New Mexico.
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Comments
Daughter of Demetria Tenorio and heiress of the Merced de Atrisco. She was an educator interested in preserving the culture and language of the Atrisco culture, especially: historias y cuentos that included personal experience, humor, and wisdom in the form of: dichos, chistes, adivinanzas and cuentos [sayings, jokes, riddles, and stories]. Her views on the importance of preserving the language and oral histories told by her elderly relatives as part of a cultural legacy and core foundation of her Hispanic identity. Memories of her childhood in her parents' ranch and the vineyard they used to have. Drinking wine during the harvesting time. Memories of the hard work his parents used to do as school teachers and ranchers. The value of family time during the meals that was a time of 'plática' and oral histories. Helping her parents with the ranch chores. Views on the changes in the area as more people from outside of the community moved in and the loss of original residents who have moved out of Atrisco or have died as they got old. Her view of the management and maintenance of la Merced; a system of land distribution based on the heirship regulation which became more politicized by the commissioner management and the influence of personal interests in detriment of people's land rights in the community. Reading and explanation of dichos, corridos, cuentos cortos, and refranes based on anecdotal experience in the community. Some of the dichos alluded the disdain for los Indios and the misconceptualized idea of seeing the Indios as peones o brazos de trabajo [labor force] not recognizing that the Hispanic were also a mix of Indian and other races. Some dichos were about health issues. More adivinanzas.