Making their mark
Arizona Latinas blaze a trail and make history
By Christine Marín, Ph.D.
As educators, social workers, labor leaders, entrepreneurs, scholars, judicial representatives, homemakers, nurses, ranch wives, or as political representatives, Hispanas/Latinas have not been strangers in Arizona’s history. It is important that their stories be recalled and remembered as we approach Arizona’s 100th anniversary of statehood in 2012. It is also important to maintain an awareness of the historical and cultural heritage of Arizona’s women of Hispanic origin, and to recognize their longstanding contributions to the development of our state. After all, they are among the state’s “trailblazers” – women who established a strong social, cultural and political presence prior to Arizona’s statehood. Women from the Hispanic families of Tomás de Belderrain, Mariano Urrera, Manuel de León, and Manuel Ygnacio de Arvizu, men who served as military officers in their Spanish
presidio in Tubac in the 1750s. And let us recall the Mexican women whose families established large ranches as early as 1821 in southern Arizona, families like those of Manuel Amado and the Carillo brothers, Francisco
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