Thrilled to share that my first book review is out in the @JournlAmEthHist I wrote about Suzanne Crawford’s “Religion and Culture in Native America,” a thoughtful and powerful book that centers Native histories and traditions, and retells the past through Indigenous experiences.
Mercedes Sosa performing "Canción del Derrumbe Indio" in 1967.
Argentine born folk singer, arrested on stage in La Plata, exiled to Europe, and still she never stopped singing.
Un artesano mexicano convirtió un futbolito en una obra de arte monumental… y ganó un premio nacional.
Luis Jesús Vázquez Gabriel, originario de Tizatlán, Tlaxcala (ya ven que si existe), creó “Legado de los Dioses”, un futbolito tallado completamente a mano con figuras inspiradas en dioses mayas y mexicas.
La pieza tomó cerca de 6 meses de trabajo y logró obtener el primer lugar nacional en la Copa de Arte Popular Banamex 2026, destacando entre más de 900 obras de todo México.
#Sabíasque Malintzin habló náhuatl, popoluca y maya chontal cuando fue entregada a los castellanos? Para 1521, es muy probable que ya hablara castellano. Doña Marina nació entre 1509 y 1504 en Painala o Copainala, una pequeña población cercana a la actual Coatzacoalcos. Sin duda que no podemos relegar su papel solamente al de una intérprete, ya que fue mucho más, una mediadora política, diplomática y cultural entre dos mundos que se encontraban. Una superviviente, una mujer que se reinventó gracias a su inteligencia!! Mi colaboración en @adnnoticiasmx sobre esta gran mujer.
Mexican restaurants per capita in USA.
Tacos first appeared in a US newspaper in 1905 - back then, they were considered a lower-class street food, sold on the streets by Mexican immigrants who'd come to work in mines, railroads, and similar jobs.
Map Via: https://t.co/whuFHpXpIR / Data Stuff
Today on the National Day of Remembrance for Indian Boarding Schools, we remember the children who were taken from their families, cultures, and homelands through the Indian boarding school system. We also remember those who never came home.
#OTD in 1962, the first convention of the National Farm Workers Association, led by César Chavez, was held in Fresno, Calif. In 1966, the group became the United Farm Workers of America when it merged with the Filipino Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee.
Archaeologist Solsiré Cusicanqui says that at least half of the ancient ruins in Peru’s Cajamarca Valley have been destroyed. So she's using drones and 3D mapping to preserve them https://t.co/L0b1CFS4rS
Two weeks ago, I helped organize the 8th Annual Cohen Distinguished Lecture at @USCHistory Dr. Vincent Brown’s Black History’s Warning to the World highlighted Tacky’s Revolt and the need to integrate Black histories into American history.
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¡Hoy fue un día especial en el Museo de Edzná!
Un grupo de señoras de la comunidad de Nohyaxché nos visitó y se mostraron muy interesadas en conocer más sobre las mujeres gobernantes de Edzná.
A contemporary vision: Director of Tribal Relations advocates for interdisciplinary connections
An alumnus of the School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Dr. Chance White Eyes leads tribal relations for OSU
Read more: https://t.co/PAKz2KfTOr
The Plunder of Black America: How the #RacialWealthGap Was Made coming out on 2/11! It’s a story of seven families over 400 years and how dispossession led to disinheritance and decapitalization. Circumstances changed. Theft continues. https://t.co/o9bQD8euiM #BlackHistoryMonth
“The beauty of people is to break historical barriers+ understand themselves across ethnic, racial, other kinds of division...[to unshackle] the America we had hoped to build.” #StanfordHistorian@stanfordccsre inaugural Dir. Prof.Camarillo @StanfordDaily
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