My name is Emma Moya. Our Familia arrived in La Villa de Albuquerque (Arabic for white oak), 34 years after Gen. De Oñate in 1598. The Trujillo’s – built a huge hacienda on the present day Manzano Day School across Central south of the Rio Grande in 1680 – the area was not attended. Instead…
Tag: Grandparents
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…
Abel Aguilar / Villanueva
My dad’s mother, the hardest working person that I have ever known in my whole life, she raised six, my grandfather was often gone working somewhere. He was a political person, he worked politics a lot in Vegas and he did other things, but my grandmother, which was his wife, she was an amazing hard…
Helen Nasheiwat / Albuquerque
My name is Helen Nesheiwat. Originally we’re from Jordan. We’re from New York but originally from Jordan. But we came a long time ago from Jordan. So we spent all our life in New York, and then ten years ago we moved to New Mexico. The reason we moved to New Mexico? First of all,…
Wilfred Luis Gallegos / Villanueva/Cañones
Yo soy de Villanueva. De haya soy. Nos conocimos en la construcción. En el trabajo. Éramos carpinteros los dos. A ella la pusieron en un trabajito conmigo. Y yo no traía lápiz. Por eso se enamoro por el lápiz. Y lo tengo por hay, el lápiz, fíjese. Y le escribí una carta. Y luego con…
Tierra Hudson / Moriarty
I’m Tierra Hudson. I go to Moriarty High School… so this year I’m a senior, and it’s been a crazy year. Everyone says senior year is so easy, it’s a breeze. No, they lied (laughter)… It’s pretty rough (laughter)… Yeah so I live in a rural part of town and my biggest thing is opportunity,…
Higinia Gallegos / Cañones
My name is Higinia Gallegos and I was born and raised in Cañones. I went to school in Gallinas, left at a young age, out to work porque there’s nothing to work here. I went out and worked, it’s not easy to go out and work for somebody else rather than to be able to…
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