Nuestro Río

From: Jack Loeffler
Length: 28:51

Nuestro Río is a thirty-minute radio program that focuses on Hispano/Latino heritage in the American Southwest, especially the Colorado River and Río Grande watersheds. It is hosted by cultural preservationist, Roberto Mondragon, and features voices of musician and former organizer, Chuy Martinez; Angélica Marasalon of the Southern Nevada Water Authority; archeologist, Nathan Harper, of the Las Vegas Springs Preserve; radio personality Richard García; historian and acequia scholar Estevan Arellano; Hispano rights activist, Dolores Huerta; Arizona Congressman, Raúl Grijalva; New Mexico Congressman, Ben Ray Lujan; author, Devon Peña; and folklorist and scholar, Enrique Lamadrid. Nuestro Río was produced in Santa Fe, New Mexico, by Jack Loeffler. Read the full description.

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From: Jack Loeffler

Dsc_0146_small Nuestro Río is a thirty-minute radio program that focuses on Hispano/Latino heritage in the American Southwest, especially the Colorado River and Río Grande watersheds. It is hosted by cultural preservationist, Roberto Mondragon, and features voices of musician and former organizer, Chuy Martinez; Angélica Marasalon of the Southern Nevada Water Authority; archeologist, Nathan Harper, of the Las Vegas Springs Preserve; radio personality Richard García; historian and acequia scholar Estevan Arellano; Hispano rights activist, Dolores Huerta; Arizona Congressman, Raúl Grijalva; New Mexico Congressman, Ben Ray Lujan; author, Devon Peña; and folklorist and scholar, Enrique Lamadrid. Nuestro Río was produced in Santa Fe, New Mexico, by Jack Loeffler.

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