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From: Debbie Reese <dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 09:12:20 -0500
Good morning,
I'm a bit late in joining the conversation, and in an hour will head to the library to get LITTLE ROJA RIDING HOOD.
I've been traveling, so am playing catch-up this morning. Reading that LITTLE ROJA is set in northern New Mexico caught my eye. I'm from Nambe Pueblo, which is located just a few miles from Santuario (people who grew up there call it "Santuario").
My remarks are in response to what Susan shared on the CCBC-Net website (in the link KT provided). It is interesting to me, to read some of the context she shares there. The part of that page about the shrine in Chimayo.
El Santuario de Chimayo is a Catholic church. The Spanish, and the Catholic church, were brutal when they moved into our homelands... So brutal that the pueblos staged a revolt (The Pueblo Revolt of 1680) and drove the Spanish out. Churches were burned, priests were killed. Sounds harsh--I know--but it was war. Wars are violent. The leader of that revolt was a man from San Juan Pueblo. His name was Po'Pay. There is a statue of him in the new visitors center in DC in the US Capitol Visitor Center (http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/national-statuary-hall-collection/popay). When the Spanish returned to our homelands 12 years later, negotiations took place by which we were able to maintain our traditional religions. Over time interesting things developed (the Matachines dance done by several pueblos is one example), and a great many Pueblo people practice both, Catholicism, and, their own Pueblos ways of worship.
One of the things people do, as Susan noted, is go to Santuario at Easter.
The pilgrimage takes place on Good Friday. People I know (including family) made/make that pilgrimage--not to honor Santo Nino de Atoche with crosses or shoes--but to ask that saint for help. When I was a kid, that room was crammed full of items people left there, like crutches and leg braces, that were no longer needed, because prayers to that saint had helped someone heal. People went/go there to ask that saint to look out for loved ones in the armed services, or to ask the saint to help someone who is in the hospital, or having emotional/mental difficulties. There are photographs there, too.
In the first part of her post, Susan says she set the book in Northern NM, and says that in some ways, it is still "the wild, wild west" and "a harsh environment." (Having grown up there, I wouldn't call it harsh. Maybe the winter... sometimes it is harsh.)
Anyway, this wild and harsh environment is the framework that gave rise to the wolf in her story. In the sketch, the wolf has a headband on, but since she doesn't mention Pueblo people anywhere, I assume the headband is meant to invoke a Hispanic guy with a machismo characterization.
Fascinating. Now! Off to get the book.
Debbie
Debbie Reese, PhD Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Email: dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com Twitter: debreese
Website: American Indians in Children's Literature
_at_ http://americanindiansinchildrensliterature.net
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Received on Thu 25 Sep 2014 09:12:56 AM CDT
Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 09:12:20 -0500
Good morning,
I'm a bit late in joining the conversation, and in an hour will head to the library to get LITTLE ROJA RIDING HOOD.
I've been traveling, so am playing catch-up this morning. Reading that LITTLE ROJA is set in northern New Mexico caught my eye. I'm from Nambe Pueblo, which is located just a few miles from Santuario (people who grew up there call it "Santuario").
My remarks are in response to what Susan shared on the CCBC-Net website (in the link KT provided). It is interesting to me, to read some of the context she shares there. The part of that page about the shrine in Chimayo.
El Santuario de Chimayo is a Catholic church. The Spanish, and the Catholic church, were brutal when they moved into our homelands... So brutal that the pueblos staged a revolt (The Pueblo Revolt of 1680) and drove the Spanish out. Churches were burned, priests were killed. Sounds harsh--I know--but it was war. Wars are violent. The leader of that revolt was a man from San Juan Pueblo. His name was Po'Pay. There is a statue of him in the new visitors center in DC in the US Capitol Visitor Center (http://www.aoc.gov/capitol-hill/national-statuary-hall-collection/popay). When the Spanish returned to our homelands 12 years later, negotiations took place by which we were able to maintain our traditional religions. Over time interesting things developed (the Matachines dance done by several pueblos is one example), and a great many Pueblo people practice both, Catholicism, and, their own Pueblos ways of worship.
One of the things people do, as Susan noted, is go to Santuario at Easter.
The pilgrimage takes place on Good Friday. People I know (including family) made/make that pilgrimage--not to honor Santo Nino de Atoche with crosses or shoes--but to ask that saint for help. When I was a kid, that room was crammed full of items people left there, like crutches and leg braces, that were no longer needed, because prayers to that saint had helped someone heal. People went/go there to ask that saint to look out for loved ones in the armed services, or to ask the saint to help someone who is in the hospital, or having emotional/mental difficulties. There are photographs there, too.
In the first part of her post, Susan says she set the book in Northern NM, and says that in some ways, it is still "the wild, wild west" and "a harsh environment." (Having grown up there, I wouldn't call it harsh. Maybe the winter... sometimes it is harsh.)
Anyway, this wild and harsh environment is the framework that gave rise to the wolf in her story. In the sketch, the wolf has a headband on, but since she doesn't mention Pueblo people anywhere, I assume the headband is meant to invoke a Hispanic guy with a machismo characterization.
Fascinating. Now! Off to get the book.
Debbie
Debbie Reese, PhD Tribally enrolled: Nambe Pueblo
Email: dreese.nambe_at_gmail.com Twitter: debreese
Website: American Indians in Children's Literature
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