Midwest Mestiza

12/14/2025

Tlayudas are yummy, pero en Oaxaca es el mole que me llama! So many interesting foods and drinks to try!

12/07/2025

Lovely boutique hotel near everything!

12/02/2025

Love this!

12/01/2025

It was a special privilege to visit this site, a day I will always be thankful for.

11/28/2025

Just a reminder that turkeys were first domesticated by pre-Maya peoples who lived in what is now the modern-day Mexican states of Veracruz, Puebla, Oaxaca, and Chiapas almost 4,000 years ago. Happy Thanksgiving everyone! Get your share of guajolote while you can. 🍗🍗🍗

11/28/2025

Día de los Mu***os en Oaxaca…so many beautiful decorations! These adorned entrances to so many businesses make the entire city feel like a two week party!

11/24/2025

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11/23/2025

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10/26/2025

As you go shopping for a Halloween costume - remember this:
Pocahontas is not a Disney princess!

Her real name was Matoaka. Pocahontas was her mother's name who had died during Mataoka's birth. Chief Powhatan, her father, called the girl Pocahontas due to her uncanny resemblance to her mother.
Mataoka, as the daughter of a chief, was married to the son of another chief, at a young age and had a child. Subsequently, she was kidnapped by the English colonists and forced to give up her first born child and her husband was murdered. In these adolescent years, she was married off to 26 year old John Smith (Rolfe) and taken overseas and treated like a sideshow - the first indigenous person to be "colonized", dressed up in European standards and showed off to, and by, the Royal family.
She was taken and turned into a Disney story and made into a fairy tale full of romance, adventure, and mystery. But, let's see it for what it truly was. By today's standards, if a youth is given to an adult male and moved overseas, it is human trafficking. Mataoka (Pocahontas) died and was buried at St. George's Church on Mar. 21, 1617.
She never made it back to her homeland. 😒

10/25/2025

Here to learn about Dia de Los Mu***os and so much more! Oaxaca looks pretty beautiful so far!

10/03/2025