Tlapoyawa, Kurly

At age 20, Tlapoyawa set out to write this book as a resource for his sister, whose public school teachers refused to accept any information about Mexikan history that did not come directly from a book. He began to take what he was being taught by maestros and jefes of Mexikah Dance, as well as his mother and the books she had saved for him from the Chicano Movement, and put them into an accessible format geared for youth. Even though most of the "official" written histories available are full of the same old stereotypes and Eurocentric misinterpretations, Tlapoyawa did begin to find books tha...