Santa Teresa Urrea: A Borderlands Curandera in Turn-of-the-Century California

Teresa Urrea's early years were spent in Mexico where she first became a healer, or "curandera." She then spent a number of her years in the borderlands, including the cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles. In these places, Urrea not only healed individual bodies, she also healed the social body with her political activism and advocacy for Latinx and Indigenous communities.

Join us for an illuminating talk given by Professor Jennifer Koshatka Seman from Metropolitan State University of Denver on her book  Borderlands Curanderos: The Worlds of Santa Teresa Urrea and Don Pedrito Jaramillo (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021), winner of the 2022 Américo Paredes Book Award. Jennifer is a lecturer in History at Metropolitan State University of Denver and also works with the Gilder-Lehrman MA program for K-12 social studies teachers. 

Book signing to follow the discussion. Books will be available for purchase through the museum beginning October 1.