Category: Rosarie Salerno

With altruistic intentions, the Spanish Conquistadors and Franciscan friars were committed to protecting the Indios. Their initial goal was to Europeanize the Mexica, integrating them into Christianity and the Spanish culture....

Believing in more than one God, the Aztecs are known as a polytheistic culture. They believed that there was a god for almost every purpose and aspect of Aztec life. It was so intrinsic in their everyday life, ceremonies, daily...

A peaceful and quiet people, the Tarahumara, have an archaeological history of over 2,000 years. They call themselves Raramuri, the “foot runners.” At one time, they inhabited the northern portion of the state of Chihuahua. The...

September 8, 1768 – March 2, 1829 Boulevard Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez runs north from Fremont just west of the entrance to Las Conchas. But, who was Josefa Ortiz de Dominguez? Orphaned at a very young age she was raised by her...

The Pre-Columbian natives of Mexico were mining gold, silver and other minerals long before the Spanish arrived at the New World in 1492. It was not long after the Spanish arrived that they began enslaving the indigenous people...

The areas surrounding Lake Titicaca in the Andes Mountains of South America, near the border of Peru and Bolivia, can trace the domestication of the potato back 8,000 to 10,000 years ago. The lake, with an elevation of 12,500...

August 10, 1644–March 15, 1711 Within 50 years of Columbus’s discovery of the Americas, Spanish Conquistadors overpowered the Native people and their lands. After their conquest, Spain’s aim was to make taxpaying citizens out of...

1651 – 1695 Have you ever wondered who the woman was on the green 200 Peso note? Why is there a picture of a nun? Sor Juana Inés, best known as a poet, is also honored as a scientist, musician, song writer, playwright,...

La Malinche was born circa 1500 CE, the exact date of her birth or death, 1527 (?), is not known for sure. She was born to a nobleman in Oluta, a city in the eastern edge of the Veracruz region of Mexico, on the commemorative...