American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions will celebrate the grand opening of its new headquarters with food, music and art.
Defranco Sarabia and Jahsanna Randolph do communications work for American Indians in Texas at the Spanish Colonial Missions .Even as an elementary school student in the 1960s, Ramon Juan Vasquez was an activist. He got into trouble at school for refusing to eat the lettuce and grapes served to him for lunches. called for by the United Farm Workers union organized by Cesar Chávez and Dolores Huerta, and only then did they relent.
Communications Coordinator Jahsanna Randolph added that “so many different things can play into someone’s quality of life.” At the time, “there was no building, no staff, no money, and everything was being funded out of their pockets,” he said of founders Steve Casanova, Raymond Hernandez, Mickey Killian, Linda Ximenes and Vasquez y Sanchez.
When AIT-SCM began, “the whole purpose of the organization was to fight the Archdiocese [of San Antonio] and the State of Texas to get back human remains that were taken from the missions,” he said. Appropriately, the first show is a retrospective exhibition of his father’s artworks, with prints of some notable works including detailed drawings of the missions available for sale in the artisan shop next door.The cultural mission of AIT-SCM includes a dance theater, the Yanaguana Singers, culinary arts, missions tours, an annual pow wow and events including the freeat the Mission Marquee Plaza this Saturday evening from 5-11 p.m.
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