Object Record
Images
Metadata
Accession number |
2024.7 |
Catalog date |
2024-04-02 |
Cataloged by |
Layla |
Collection |
Penitente Collection |
Catalog Number |
2024.7.4 |
Object Name |
Relic, Religious |
Source |
Ruben Archuleta |
Year Range from |
1900 |
Year Range to |
1937 |
Description |
Sociedad Proteccion Mutua de Trabajadores Unidos (S.P.M.D.T.U) cuadernos y divisas (badges and emblems). Badges and Emblems from the S.P.M.D.T.U. The artifacts were donated pinned to a wooden frame. Three of the badges contain dates: 1900, 1933, 1937. All have the S.P.M.D.T.U acronym. Ruben E. Archuleta discusses this orginization and their connection to the Penitente in his book /Land of the Penitentes: Land of Tradition/. Beginning around the 1920s, the Penitente orginization and the S.P.M.D.T.U unified under a mutual understanding of the needs of their communities. While the primary focus of the Fraternidad was on their religion and their Hermanos, the Penitente also cared deeply about their communities. Around this period, the S.P.M.D.T.U orginized for the rights of Hispanic workers in southern Colorado and northern New Mexico. Hispanic groups of the region turned to both the Penitente and the Socidad for protections against the racism and discrimination they experienced, threatening their lives within Colorado and New Mexico. Both orginizations realized the benefit of uniting their efforts to aid Hispanic populations of their regions. In Antonito, Colorado, in 1922, the Penitente order and the Sociedad filed a formal agreement to help their communities through hardship, and to protect these populations from the intense racism, discrimination, and violence experienced in employment, housing, education, and society/governance at large in Colorado (Archuleta, 72-73). Bibliography: Archuleta, Ruben E. /Land of the Penitentes: Land of Tradition/. Pueblo West, Colorado: EL JEFE, 2003. |