Oral history interview, Virginia Maestas, 2013 (audio and summary)

Her parents and grandparents; American Indian relatives; types of work done by her parents;sheep herding; women's domestic work for pay; Great Western Sugar Company; brothers in military in WW II and Korea; housework; illnesses; bad housing for farm workers; problems at school due to knowing no English; Casey Junior High School; racism; prejudice; her work at stores; cultural gap between her and Anglo children; embarrassment about Latino food; parents divorced; defense industry; GED as adult; University of Colorado at Boulder; Metropolitan State University; teaching; religion; bilingual education; baseball leagues;
ID: 
BCLHP-MKM-346
Location: 
Boulder; San Luis Valley; Longmont; Pueblo; Lafayette
Date: 
10/31/2013
Time Period: 
1920s-30s
1940s
1950s-1965
1966-1970s
1980s-90s
2000-2013
Keywords: 
Indian relatives; Native Americans; sheep herding; domestic work for pay; Great Western Sugar Company; brothers in military in WW II and Korea; housework; illnesses; bad housing for farm workers; problems at school due to knowing no English; Casey Junior
People Shown or Mentioned: 
Virginia Maestas; Abe Maestas; Veronica Maestas; Valerie Maestas
Location of Original: 
Maria Rogers Oral History Program at Carnegie Branch Library for Local History, Boulder Public Library
Producer: 
The Boulder Weekly
Interviewer/Narrator: 
Jeff Dodge