Villanueva Traditions We have our own traditions and folklore, ours is Las Posadas which is religious as well as Los Pastores. Los Pastores is a musical play that has been around here for many years; we got the play from an uncle of my mother’s that his family had in 1902. It is all in…
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Randy Jiron
Location: Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico Topics: Native American, Farmer, Culture, Indigenous, Agriculture Quote: “Growing with the land you just don’t go into the land and just step on her, you respect the land, mother earth. We are happy to see the sun come up and we are thankful for him to come up, to warm, to…
Ralph A.Vigil II / Pecos
Name: Ralph A. Vigil II Location: Pecos, New Mexico Topics: Agriculture, Water Rights, Family, History, Northern New Mexico My name is Ralph Vigil, Jr. I’m from here, from Pecos. I’ve lived here all my life, 38 years. I was born in Las Cruces but been in here in Pecos, raised up on the east side…
Juan Carlos Martínez / South Valley
(English translations below) Mi nombre es Juan Carlos Martínez. Vivo en Isleta y Bridge y tengo 4 años de estar aquí en Albuquerque. Solo e visitado Houston, Tejas. Y el lugar este me gusta mucho por ser tranquilo, bien pacifico el ambiente, no esta muy poblado como otros estados. A pesar de que es algo…
Jimmy Gutierrez / Questa
So my name is Jimmy Gutierrez, I grew up in a very small town, in Questa (New Mexico). The crazy/interesting thing about Questa is its hugely Hispanic, and not only Hispanic, like there is only a few family’s that really run the town and as it runs the village of Questa is incorporated, which means…
Humans of New Mexico 