Of Bloodlines and Conquistadors

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4.6 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 May 2018

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Hispanos have lived side by side the Pueblo people for centuries—mixing cultures, identities and even bloodlines. But recently, tensions have risen among the two populations over Santa Fe's annual conquistador pageant, known as La Entrada, which celebrates the arrival of the Spanish.

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0:00.0	What's good, y'all?
0:05.9	You're listening to Co-Twitch.
0:06.9	I'm Gene Demby.
0:07.9	Shereen is out this week.
0:10.2	On this episode, we're talking about colonialism and slavery and identity in the American South.
0:16.2	West.
0:17.2	Ha ha, plot twist, Southwest.
0:18.5	Alright, so this is a really complicated and messy story.
0:22.2	It's about the way people try to memorialize the past.
0:24.3	And it's about a fraught history and some racial dynamics that most of us are not going
0:28.4	to be too familiar with.
0:30.0	The story comes from our play cousins at Latina USA.
0:32.2	They're not trying to give too much of it away.
0:34.2	So I'm just going to turn it over to Maria Hinoosa and Maggie Freeling.
0:40.8	You wore this on your head.
0:42.2	Yes, I wore this during the Andracha.
0:45.2	It's missing some of the padding, so it looks a little odd.
0:48.6	This is Thomas Baca.
0:50.3	My producer, Maggie and I are at his house in a small town just north of Santa Fe in New
0:56.3	Mexico.
0:57.6	And Thomas is showing us a costume.
1:00.2	So actually when you see those paintings of the conquistadores and things like the Spanish
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