(Martínez) Pacheco, Teófila

Authors

3 of 9

Document Type

Audio

Publication Date

3-1972

Comments

Conversation about 'el alto costo de la vida', Indian funeral customs, funeral customs in the Hispanic community in the past, final will and inheritance process, mourning her late husband, her cynical views on 'padres' [priests] who in her opinion, were not honest, like Padre Kooper (a scammer German priest who took advantage of the Abreu family and the people of the town, and who led a libertine life). Story of the construction of the church during the tenure of a French priest named Leon de La Belle who married a rich woman from Santa Fe. Stories of the Penitentes in Truchas, Trampas, and Córdova. A story of the closing of a church that served the Indians and how they reopened it. Discussion about the naivete and good hearted ways of the Hispanic people and how the government and the white man took advantage of that good nature of the Hispanic people.

Recommended Citation

Interview of Téofila Pacheco de Martínez, 1972, Alejandro López Papers (MSS 943), Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, University Libraries, University of New Mexico