Background Information:
These video interviews are part of the Gabriel Meléndez Papers. The interviews, conducted by Gabriel Meléndez and Walter Archuleta, were of regional community elders - a relationship formed through extended kinship and cultural ties. The intentions of the interviewers 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.
Original VHS tapes were digitized and uploaded in MP4 format onto UNM Digital Repository by CSWR Archivist, Samuel Sisneros.
For bios of the primary investigators / interviewers and learn more about the collection see finding guide to the Gabriel Meléndez Papers (MSS 1148), 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 Gabriel Melendez Papers (MSS 1148): Oral History Interviews 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 fellow Feliza Monta Jameson, the objective of the project is consolidate and coordinate CSWR archival collections containing interviews of New Mexico Spanish speakers. The project involves recovering, regenerating, preserving and extending the ethnographic studies done by earlier investigators/researchers. By using current digital and online technologies, this project intends to bridge the accessibility gap between their work (1960s-1990s) and the present. For links to other collections see "Related Materials" in Additional Description in the Gabriel Meléndez Papers finding guide.
Submissions from 2022
Medina, Antonio (El Encinal, NM), . .
Submissions from 2019
Arellano, Anselmo (Las Vegas, NM) - part 1, . .
Arellano, Anselmo (Las Vegas, NM) - part 2, . .
Arellano, Anselmo (Las Vegas, NM) - part 3, . .
Submissions from 1988
Casias, Miguel (San Juan Pueblo / Ohkay Owingeh, NM), . .
Submissions from 1987
Casias, Miguel (San Juan Pueblo / Ohkay Owingeh, NM), . .
C de Baca, Elba with Maria Ignacia Gutiérrez (San Geronimo, NM), . .
Duran, Nicanora (Velarde, NM), . .
Martínez, Marina with son Pedro Martínez (Embudo, NM) - part 1, . .
Martínez, Marina with son Pedro Martínez (Embudo, NM) - part 2, . .
Martínez, Marina with son Pedro Martínez (Embudo, NM) - part 3, . .
Montoya, Agueda with Montoya, Ernestine (Velarde, NM), . .
Rendón, Eliazar (Velarde, NM) - part 1, . .
Rendón, Eliazar (Velarde, NM) - part 2, . .
Romero, José Encarnación (Española, NM) - part 1, . .
Romero, José Encarnación (Española, NM) - part 2, . .
