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Teresa Urrea: The Mexican Joan Of Arc (A Latino USA Podcast)
Photo by the University of Texas at El Paso Library, Special Collections Department, Victor Mendoza photograph collection, PH031.
In 1892, the Mexican dictator Porfirio Díaz exiled Teresa Urrea from Mexico.
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He called her the most dangerous girl in Mexico. She was only 19 years old.
Teresa Urrea was a “curandera,” or a healer, a feminist, and a revolutionary. She was born in 1873 in Sinaloa, Mexico. Her mother was Cayetana Chávez, a part-Tehueco Indigenous woman, who worked in the ranch of Don Tomás Urrea, a rich hacendado, and Teresa’s father.
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Cayetana Chávez was only 14 years old when she gave birth to Teresa.
Teresa grew up with her mother in separate quarters from her father’s hacienda, but when Teresa was 15 years old, her mother disappeared. She moved into her father’s ranch in Cabora in the state of Sonora.
She became an apprentice to Huila, a Yaqui curandera. Teresa learned how to heal using plants