Chapter 3 Decolonial New Mexican@ Travels: Music, Weaving, Melancholia, and Redemption Or, “This is Where the Peasants Rise Up!” (original) (raw)

2014, The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship

is where most of the Serrano-Sandoval-Lucero-Archuleta family dynasty has lived since the sixteenth century-and before. Do ñ a Teofila Jaramillo lived her entire life in the village of Ca ñ ones, where in 1936 she married Salomon Serrano, another lifelong resident of Ca ñ ones. Many of Don Salomon and Do ñ a Teofila's surviving relatives, friends, and loved ones remain in that village. But many more live in the neighboring pueblos of Abiqui ú , Medenales, Coyote, the Santa Clara Pueblo-indeed, throughout R í o Arriba county. During Dona Teofila's early lifetime, the R í o Arriba was unequaled in its sheepherding industry. The end of that lifeway forced the Serrano family to become part of a twentieth-century human diaspora. Serrano family members now live as far away as Santa Fe, Albuquerque, Denver, southern Colorado, Utah, California, and Washington State. Yet, even at distant removes from the New Mexican territories, all continue to claim Ca ñ ones, Abiqui ú , Coyote, and the R í o Arriba as their ancient homeland. The family's reverence for Do ñ a Teofila's life brought them back from far and near to the Sangre de Cristo mountains. They gathered high above the Gen í zaro village of Abiqui ú , E. D. Hernández et al. (eds.), The Un/Making of Latina/o Citizenship