'I may have nothing, I may have no money, but I am rich … because of what I know now, and who I am,” said Brenda Pacheco, a descendant of the original Canary Islander families that settled what is now the city of San Antonio.
Brenda Pacheco and her cousin, Jeanette Pacheco-Garcia, set up an altar every year in the Mission San José granary to honor their ancestors, who are direct descendants of the original 16 Canary Islander families who settled in what is now the city of San Antonio.Each year, the National Park Service invites families descended from the original mission residents to create altars for a Día de los Muertos display in the Mission San José granary.
When she was growing up in the 1950s and ’60s, Pacheco said “neither side of the family ever talked about their Native American lineage.” Brenda Pacheco explains where her family’s house once stood on the other side of the eastern wall of Mission San José on Tuesday.“And that’s where the house still sits,” Pacheco said, reminding that it once stood in the literal shadow of Mission San José.
The family eventually found its way to a ranch in Christine, Texas, where her great-grandfather Felice Romero would work as a vaquero and live with his wife, Antonia. On the altar inside the granary, a black and white image of her grandmother Selia Romero Escobar is displayed draped with a pink lace mantilla she wore to church every Sunday. Accompanying the photograph are a pair of ceramic salt and pepper shakers she owned and a blue enameled ladle and spoon representing her work as a cook on the Christine ranch.
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