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- Ernesto B. Vigil, long time Chicano activist and former member of The Crusade for Justice, delivers a talk entitled, "Sra. Juanita Montoya de Martinez/Story to her grandson : the rebellion of 1847". Vigil describes events leading to The Taos Revolt, a popular insurrection in January 1847 by Mexicans and their Pueblo allies against the United States' occupation of present-day northern New Mexico during the Mexican-American War. Vigil shares his family's memories of the events, the role of his great-grandfather Pablo Montoya, and the long term affects of what transpired on Mexican and indigenous people. He also explains the overwhelming Spanish and Mexican influences on place names in the Southwest and answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Dr. Rubén O. Martinez, director of the Julían Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-06-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Ernesto B. Vigil, long time Chicano activist and former member of The Crusade for Justice, delivers a talk entitled, "Sra. Juanita Montoya de Martinez/Story to her grandson : the rebellion of 1847". Vigil describes events leading to The Taos Revolt, a popular insurrection in January 1847 by Mexicans and their Pueblo allies against the United States' occupation of present-day northern New Mexico during the Mexican-American War. Vigil shares his family's memories of the events, the role of his great-grandfather Pablo Montoya, and the long term affects of what transpired on Mexican and indigenous people. He also explains the overwhelming Spanish and Mexican influences on place names in the Southwest and answers questions from the audience. The event is convened by Dr. Rubén O. Martinez, director of the Julían Samora Research Institute at Michigan State University.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-06-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Margaret Pauline Stenson talks about serving with her husband as a teacher in the American Indian Native Service in the Alaskan territory beginning in 1933 and later at a Navajo reservation in the southwest. Stenson talks about how the couple was first assigned to teach at an Eskimo village on an island off the Seward Peninsula, returned to the University of Michigan in 1937 to complete their graduate degrees and then went back to Alaska to work in 1938. She recalls learning about the start of World War Two and the Japanese invasion of the Aleutian Islands over the radio, describes the native school where she taught, war security measures, receiving supplies via freighter once per year, the severe cold, cooking reindeer meat, her class sizes, and her fellow teachers. Stenson says that the only real adjustment she had to make when she and her husband finally returned to the lower 48 was remembering how to drive a car. Stenson is interviewed by Elsie Hornbacher.
- Date Issued:
- 1984-02-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
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- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Midwest Chicano Latino Activism Collection (MICHILAC)