Session 3—Living Cultures: Genízaro Traditions Today—Panel

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2021-10-25T16:17:50.000Z

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Session 3—Living Cultures: Genízaro Traditions Today—Panel

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Chavela Trujillo, Delilah Trujillo, Dexter Trujillo, Virgil Trujillo, Patricia Trujillo, PhD This session features an intergenerational panel conversation exploring how Genízaro identity and traditions are passed down from elders to younger generations. Chavela Trujillo comes from a long line of Genízaro families from El Pueblo de Abiquiú, New Mexico. From a young age, her parents instilled the importance of culture, land, and self-sufficiency in her and her siblings. With her parents' guidance, Chavela was taught her Spanish/Indigenous heritage as well as other traditions such as acequia irrigating, livestock work, and food preservation. She has continued learning and sharing her knowledge with the younger generation of youth from the Pueblo. Chavela and her sister also assist in teaching the Native dances for annual feast days. Chavela spends her free time running her own small business, Extreme Abiquiú Horseback, where she gives horse-riding lessons. Delilah Trujillo continues to live near El Pueblo de Abiquiú, New Mexico, where she was raised and is a steady presence in community activities. She has danced since she was a little girl. Her interest has grown into keeping the attire as traditional as possible so she has made note of changes and is now making regalia that will be passed down to younger generations via El Pueblo de Abiquiú Library & Cultural Center checkout system. Her recollections include many oral history interviews and internships in Historypin and Migrations. She has studied family and local histories extensively through the Historypin Memories of Migration program. Dexter Trujillo is recognized as the Ceremonial Leader for the Pueblo of Abiquiú because he has always kept the traditions going, from feast day dances to songs to drumming to the preservation of traditional societies. He has the sacred duty of ringing the bell when there is a death in the Pueblo. He is an Hermano de la Morada del Alto and also helps with the Morada de Moque and anywhere else he is needed, including the other seven or eight missions of the parish. Virgil Trujillo is a deeply rooted Genízaro of Santo Tomas El Apostol Pueblo de Abiquiú. His knowledge of Genízaro and community history has been influenced heavily since early childhood by many elder relatives and neighbors. He currently leads history tours for the Pueblo in order to teach visitors about the Genízaro story and can point out visual evidence still existing in the immediate area. Patricia Trujillo, PhD, session moderator, is the deputy cabinet secretary of the New Mexico Department of Higher Education. Prior to her appointment, she earned tenure in English and Chicana/o Studies and served as founding director of the Office of Equity and Diversity at Northern New Mexico College, where she oversaw programming to address access and inclusion for historically underserved populations in higher education. Born and raised in the Española Valley of Northern New Mexico, Trujillo has dedicated her career to improving social engagement via critical education, social justice, and community-based participatory methods. In service to the historical and cultural community, Trujillo serves on the boards of the Northern Rio Grande National Heritage Area, Tewa Women United, NewMexicoWomen.org, Los Alamos National Laboratory Foundation, and she is the out-going creative writing editor of the Journal of Chicana/Latina Studies. Trujillo teaches in the areas of Chicana/Chicano studies, Southwest literature, and New Mexico culture, and has published work in academic books and journals on these topics.

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44 min 26 sec

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