Little Sister Lozen

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023

Little Sister Lozen was a respected Apache warrior and medicine woman. She resisted Apache placement onto reservations alongside her brother, the Warm Springs Apache chief, Victorio, his successor Nana, and later Geronimo. With outstretched hands, it was said she was...

Kewa Women’s Co-op

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 11, 2023

According to oral and recorded history, the Santo Domingo people have consistently made and traded jewelry, including heishi, a shell drilled and ground into beads and strung into necklaces. Generations of Santo Domingo women have passed down this art. Recent...

Emma Estrada, Parteras of New Mexico

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

Prior to the arrival of the United States Army in 1846, no known doctors are known to have practiced in New Mexico. After that, a combination of vast distances and sparse, rural population in New Mexico contributed to a continued shortage of trained medical...

Curanderas – Women Who Heal

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

While curanderas have existed in many societies throughout history, Curanderas (female healers) and curanderos (male healers) spread with Spanish society as it expanded globally from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Because many curanderas also became...

Captive Women and Children of Taos County

by MyProject ByFranziska | Feb 10, 2023

From the seventeenth century into the nineteenth century, raiding and trading human beings, especially women and children, occurred with regularity in New Mexico. Native Americans took and traded human captives among themselves as well as in the communities in...