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MOTHER’S DAY 2019

Photo of Denise Chávez in front of a mural depicting a woman carrying a basket of food on her head

By Denise Chávez
“I imagine my mother Delfina listening intently to her transistor radio wherever she is now, in the Great Unknown humming Bendito surrounded by the Ancestors.”

TEACHER WARRIOR

Photo of Chábá Davis Watson

By Ninabah Davis
“In the month of May we celebrate Mother’s Day to honor our mothers, grandmothers and aunts, and for this Mother’s Day I would like to share a story about my late paternal Grandmother who was named Chábáh Davis Watson.”

LOVING LA LLORONA

Photo of a woman dressed like a ghost holding both arms out in front of a large cottonwood tree

By Rica Maestas
“A nostalgic tie to childhood, La Llorona was one of the first stories I remember hearing, sitting under the tree in my grandmother’s yard.”