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Maya's nickname is Quechi

Diego in his T-Ball uniform

Diego's 5th birthday party

Same party

Bugs Bunny

Certification of Mexican Nationality

Ensenada Museum

My tata (maternal grandfather) weaving a fishing net. He was a fisherman and canoe builder.

circa 1950’s

My grandparents were descended from the coastal band of the Tahue, a maritime mesoamerican indigenous group. They are part of the same Taracahita family made up of Taraumaras (Raramuuri) and Cahita-speaking cultural group where modern day Yaquis and Mayos descend from. The Tahue were a pacific people and only practiced defensive warfare. Their arms were the bow and arrow with tips hardened by fire, the throwable dart with obsidian end, the macana with obsidian knives and the shield made of lizard skin. Tahues were agriculturists; they cultivated corn, beans, pumpkin, chile, cotton, guayaba and plum; they collected wild fruits like prickly-pear-tuna, pitahaya and the seeds of mezquite. They fished in the rivers and the sea where they obtained a great variety of fish and seafood that constituted an important part of their diet. They collected salt from the numerous natural deposits that formed on the coast. Tahues spun and weaved cotton to make blankets and clothing, that they printed with the colors obtained of wild plants, like indigo that abounds in the region.
My people were characterized as being skilful potters who produced pieces of ceramic beautifully decorated and of great resistance for domestic use.
They practiced the ball game, that was common to all the mesoamerican towns. In fact, my grandfather spent sundays playing the modern version of the ball game (UIama). My people practiced the ways of the feathered serpent (know as Quetzalcoatl in the nahuatl name).