In this lesson, students will analyze traditions tied to celebrations/holidays in their community using interviews and primary artifacts to create a presentation on how historic celebrations and cultural interactions/movements have influenced today's celebrations in Colorado. (Click images to enlarge)
Group of protesters in Center, CO
Striking against the Finerman Company in Center, CO., 1970
Hermanos del Concilio #19, Alamosa, Colorado
founder of la Sociedad Protección Mutua de Trabajadores Unidos. Original portrait located in the SPMTU hall in Antonito, CO
Two men standing with a Churro sheep, SLV but exact place and date unknown
Graduation portrait of Erinea García (later Erinea García de Gallegos), holding her diploma and a bouquet of roses in her lap. She graduated from Antonito High School in Antonito (Conejos County) in 1918.
Brothers José Filiberto Martinez, far left with violin and Gaspar Martinez, 2nd left with guitar, play with a rural folk band in San Luis Valley, Colorado, 1915-20.
View of a colcha by Hispanic American Teresa Vigil of San Luis (Costilla County), Colorado. The embroidery of a rural scene in the San Luis Valley depicts men fishing in a stream, a woman cooking a fish and a man in a horse-drawn wagon.
Interview with Theresa Vigil, including description of colcha embroidery (at 12:15)
