MANITO
![Black and white photo portrait of Leonard Martinez, age 27](https://newmexicohumanities.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/NMHC-Blog-Manitos-web30.jpg)
By Leeanna Teresa Martinez y Torres
“Manito: Examining and Deconstructing New Mexico’s Tri-Cultural Myth; ‘Patterns of Migration’
Mama’s easy, un-flinching and quick-to-respond reply to this unfamiliar term, word, name, was curious to me. Manito.”