A Taste of Sonora: Cocido de Res

A Taste of Sonora: Cocido de Res
By MoKa Hammeken

At my grandmother’s, the famous “cocido de res Sonorense” (Sonoran cooked beef) was known as “puchero” (stew). She would greet us with this dish every time we visited her home on Calle de Xochicalco in Mexico City. My family always delighted in this, though personally I must admit I wasn’t much of a fan.

Cocido-res“Monica,” my grandmother would scold, “How is this possible? This is from where you are from, and it’s beef, how can you not like it? Taste it, it came out really well.”

It was always the same. We would eat this for the first two days because, in her excitement, she would always cook a lot. She really did prepare it well, but honestly I was always holding out for a milanesa, enchiladas, or tacos de canasta.

Now here in Puerto Peñasco, one day a friend of mine called up:

“It’s Tuesday, Cocido de Res day at Lolita’s; do you want some, because they’ll run out.”

“What is it?,” I asked naively.

“It’s like a beef broth with vegetables.”

I still didn’t understand the relationship of one with the other; I heard beef, broth, beef…I could leave the vegetables to the side if I didn’t like them.

“Ok,” I answered.

When my friend arrived at my home with a styrofoam cup, imagine my surprise to see this was the famous dish my family had baptized “puchero”!

I became a bit nostalgic; it was delicious (though not like my grandmother’s). While my friend lived here, she would go to Lolita’s religiously almost every Tuesday for their famous Cocido de Res.

The thing is, one cannot always go out to eat and/or buy enough for the whole family. Plus, what happens when it runs out and you’ve still got a hankering for it?

I decided to go to the phones for a recipe. This is the original, which my mother had jotted down in a notebook that no longer had a cover; it was as old as I. As she explained, everyone adds to or takes away whatever they seem fit based on personal taste. For example, she doesn’t add sweet potato or garbanzo, but she does throw in bone marrow to give the broth flavor, and then eats that on a salted tortilla.

Ingredients:

• ½ kilo of aldilla (skirt steak)
• ½ kilo of sweet potato (there are those who substitute this with chayote)
• 1 oxtail
• ½ kilo potatoes
• 100 gr. Chorizo
• ¼ kilo green beans
• 2 cups garbanzo beans
• 4 zucchini
• 3 soft corn
• 3 pieces of squash
• 3 garlic gloves
• 1 handful of green cilantro
• 2 tomatillos
• 2 teaspoons salt
• 4 liter water
• ½ teaspoon pepper

Preparation:

Soak the garbanzo beans, then peel

Wash and cube beef (not too small)

Separate corn and clean, cut into segments (three or four depending on length)

Place beef in water (cubed pieces, oxtail, and (if you’re up for it) bone marrow) along with garlic and onion and cook to a boil.

Once pot begins to boil, remove foam from top and add garbanzo, corn, and salt.

Once cooked, add chorizo and remaining vegetables. Simmer on low until beef and vegetables are well cooked.

Ready! Serve hot. Ideal for the chilly evenings we’re having.

El Famoso Cocido de Res Sonorense
Por MoKa Hammeken

En casa de mi abuela se le conocía como “puchero” y nos recibía con él cada que íbamos de visita a su casa en la calle de Xochicalco en México, que mi familia se lo celebraba mucho pero que en lo personal no era muy fan.

-Mónica- me regañaba mi abuela – ¿Cómo es posible? Pero si es de tu tierra, y es de carne ¿cómo que no te gusta? Pruébalo, si me queda bien bueno-. Siempre era lo mismo; los primeros dos días comiendo eso porque en su entusiasmo hacía muchísimo. Si le quedaba muy bueno pero yo la verdad estaba esperando una milanesa, enchiladas o tacos de canasta.

Reflejos: Foto de Ray J. Manley, Ciudad Obregón en 1947

 

 

The modern metropolis of Ciudad Obregón in the rich Yaqui Valley is an indication of what Mexico hopes to accomplish in the future. Irrigation as brought new lands under cultivation. Area is large wheat producer.

A modern farming scene in Sonora’s rich productive Yaqui Valley

Aportacion de Joaquín Hndez. al Historico Cajeme.

 

«Los Yaquis – Los Combatientes mas Obstinados sobre la Tierra»

«The Yaquis – Most Stubborn Fighters on Earth»

Fotos: Raquel Padilla Ramos

Quién y cómo fué la Vida de Emilio Kosterizlitzky en Sonora

Originario de Polonia, muy joven vino al país y adquirió carta de ciudadanía mexicana. Radicado en el Estado causó alta en la Guardia Nacional el 1o. de marzo de 1873 a las órdenes del coronel Ángel Elías. En 1876 fue nombrado mariscal de Colonias Militares.

En 1882 fue ascendido a capitán de auxiliares del Ejército y comisionado en el Escuadrón de Colonias. Ascendió a mayor y pasó a mandar el grupo de gendarmería fiscal establecido en Magdalena.

En junio de 1906 desalojó a los rangers americanos que el gobernador Izabal usó para someter a los obreros en Cananea. Ascendió a coronel en 1907. En febrero de 1912 se retiró del Ejército después de 35 años de servicios. En junio siguiente fue llamado a filas para combatir a las partidas orozquistas que invadieron el Estado y ganó la acción de La Dura.

Extend History:

My dear friend, Mark Kasal stopped by Calvary Cemetery the other day to see if he could find Col. Emilio Kosterlitzky’s gravesite. It took the staff (all Hispanic) a long time to locate it and they finally did after he looked Emilio up on Wikipedia on his cell phone and gave them the date of his death. There were other names similar to his last name but the others were spelled differently. None of them knew anything about the Colonel.

Next to him is his daughter, Anita who died at only 17. She was an accomplished musician and had recently had a performance at the Ebell Club in Los Angeles.

Emil Kosterlitzky was born on November 16, 1853 in Moscow, to a German mother and Russian Cossack father. He was noted for his language ability; he spoke English, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Italian, Polish, Danish and Swedish. In his teens, Emil joined the Russian Navy as a midshipman. By 1871, at the age of 18, he deserted his ship in Venezuela. Kosterlitzky then traveled to the Mexican state of Sonora, where he changed his name to Emilio and joined the Mexican Army.

During the 1880s he fought in the Mexican Apache Wars. He also assisted American troops pursuing Apaches across the border under the 1882 United States–Mexico reciprocal border crossing treaty. Kosterlitzky became known to the American troops, who called him the «Mexican Cossack». In 1885, Kosterlitzky was appointed commander of the Gendarmería Fiscal, the customs guard for the Mexican government, by President Porfirio Díaz.

In 1913, Kosterlitzky was captured in Nogales, Sonora, by revolutionaries during the Mexican Revolution. He was jailed until 1914, when he, his wife, Francesca, and two daughters moved to Los Angeles, California, in the United States, where he became a translator for the U.S. Postal Service. During World War I, he pretended to be a German physician. He returned to Mexico in 1927, to investigate a plot against the government of the state of Baja California. Kosterlitzky died in Los Angeles on March 2, 1928, and is buried in Calvary Cemetery in East Los Angeles.

1884 Mapa Oficial del Estado de Sonora, por C. E. Herbert

1884 Mapa oficial del estado de Sonora República de México levantado y ejecutado de medidas, reconocimientos proprios y de otras fuentes fidedignas. Por el Ingeniero Civil C. E. Herbert .

Description:

Later edition with significant improvements of this extremely rare map of the State of Sonora, colored by Districts. The Royal Geographical Society in its 1885 Proceedings remarked of this map: “This map…is drawn on a larger scale than any yet published, and contains details not to be found in other maps of this same country”.

The map was apparently intended for the use of potential investors or land purchasers in Sonora, especially those interested in mines, which along with coal fields, are specifically noted. On the whole, this is a beautifully detailed map of the area that sets forth its physical features, towns, roads, rivers, ranches, and railroads in minute form.

The map also shows the Eastern coast of Baja, California, and the far southern part of Arizona. Although this map may seem late, it represented a genuine advance in the mapping of Mexico, which was geographically poorly understood at the time.

Although praising Herbert’s map of Sonora as “good,” Merrill, concerned primarily with mining interests, decries the lack of accuracy in Mexican maps available at the time. Because of its emphasis on mines, this map, as Merrill intimates, would have been an important one at the time of its publication.

Yaqui Tribal ID Cards (Border-Crossing Document)

Don’t Leave Home Without It
By Lee Allen

“What we did wasn’t just for us, it was for every single tribe in America,” said Pascua Yaqui Tribal Chairman Peter Yucupicio.

He’s talking about the first-in-the-nation creation of an Enhanced Tribal ID card, the key part of a program now successfully under way among the tribe’s 18,000 members, who are settled in almost every U.S. state. Pascua Yaqui is the first federally recognized American Indian tribe to develop a border-crossing document that is in full compliance with mandates of the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI). “When Homeland Security requirements started to become more complex and laws began to change, we began to see increased problems with our people going north and south across the border with Mexico,” Yucupicio says. “The Yaqui, Tohono, Zuni and Apache tribes have a long history of cross-border travel for family visits, a pattern established with the very beginnings of our legends, but times have changed.”

Following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, security on all U.S. borders was tightened in many ways, including the new requirement that all travelers entering the U.S. present a passport or other acceptable identification documentation. Enforcement of that requirement began June 1, 2009, just as the Pascua Yaqui tribe entered into a Memorandum of Agreement with the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to create an Enhanced Tribal Card (ETC). Bonnie Arellano is tribal liaison for CBP Field Operations: “If you look at the 560-plus tribes across the country—and the 22 nations I represent in Arizona—many (such as the 250,000 members of the Navajo Nation) have no tribal identification document. This Enhanced Tribal Card is a way for WHTI and Homeland Security to work together with nations in coming up with a process that works well as a travel document and can also be used for a variety of purposes within tribal confines.”

Pascua Yaqui council members began work on such a document as early as 1998 in an effort to facilitate the travel of tribal members who want to come and go across the Mexican border without having to go through the whole screening process each time. Tribal authorities worked with both the American and Mexican governments, but progress was slow. “You can’t do it alone. You need the blessing, trust and cooperation of all the agencies involved,” said Yucupicio.

That happened when Border Security Program Manager Arellano, who lived and worked in Indian country while growing up, came on board as the first tribal liaison for CBP Field Operations. “I was able to connect the dots from this side to the Department of Homeland Security and get things done a whole lot quicker. We really hit the ground running with the proposed Enhanced Tribal Card because the urgency to get this done was there.”

The free card identifies the holder as a tribal member, provides a physical description, name, date of birth and a unique tribal enrollment number, as well as a photo and a fingerprint impression. The fingerprint is important because it allows a quick swipe and scan at a port of entry. “The Enhanced Tribal Card works in conjunction with any existing tribal ID cards,” said Arellano. “It’s like having two credit cards with different limits. The ETC is the gold card because while it enhances travel, it also allows a look at the tribes themselves, a card that’s theirs, something they can relate to, that also serves as a security document within the confines of their nation.”

Alvaro Obregon «Oviachic» Dam on «Top Ten Highest Dams In The World»

La Presa Alvaro Obregon «Oviachic» en el Top 10 de las mas Grandes del Mundo

Construction for the Alvaro Obregon Dam took five years to complete, beginning in 1947. The largest Dam in the state, it is built on the river Yaqui. It is also the 10th highest Dam having 244 meters height. Not only is it important for local irrigation and hydraulic works, it is also a tourist attraction because of the beauty of the surrounding scenery.

A dam is a man-made structure built across a river. Most dams are built to control river flow, improve navigation, and regulate flooding. However, some dams are built to produce hydroelectric power. Dams all over the world have hurt some species. The highest dam in the world is Rogun Dam. Here is a top 10 highest dams list. The sight of a dam one of the largest and most complex structures that humanity has ever created can be quite breath taking.

Rogun Dam:- The highest dam ever built is the Rogun Dam, across the River Vakhsh in the southern part of Tajikstan. There were intial problems in building this dam and the project was shelved temporarily. However later on a partnership was formed with Russia in order to complete the project, accomplished in 1990. This dam is 335 meters high, making it the highest dam in the world today.

Nurek Dam:- This Dam stands next to rogun Dam on Vakhsh river in height. The Dam located in central Asia this is the world’s largest rock fill dam and is the second highest dam in the world as well. It was constructed between 1961 and 1980. Nurek Dam has 9 units generating hydroelectric power. These units were installed between 1972 and 1979.

Grand Dixence (Switzerland):- Grand Dixence is the third highest dam in the world with 285 meters height. Built to hold back Lac Des Dix in Switzerland, it is 4 kilometers long and it holds 400 million cubic meters of water. Though the river Dixence is one of the smaller rivers in the area, water collects here in large quantities due to tunnels which bring in water from other sources. It is also the highest Dam in Europe.

Inguri (Georgia):- Inguri is amongst the highest dams in the world with a height of 272 meters. It is a hydroelectric dam located in Georgia. The Inguri power station is located in Abkhazia where the dam is built on the Inguri River. Construction of this dam began in 1961 however it was completed only in 1987. There are five generators at the Inguri Power Station.

Chicoasen (Mexico):- It is located about 40 km from Tuxtle, capital of the Mexican state of Chiapas. It is also known as Sumidero Canyon and canyon is regarded as an important tourist attraction in the state of Chiapas. The chicoasen is the home to a great variety of wildlife including corocodiles. It is the 5th largest dam in the world with a height of 261 meters.

Tehri Dam (India):- The Dam was constructed amidst the ensuing chaos of opposition. Tehri dam was built close to the town of Garhwal, India, in order to trap the water from the basin of the uppen Ganga, at the Bhilanganga and Bhagirathi confluence. The height of the dam is about 260 meters and it is the 6th highest dam in the world.

Xiaowan Dam:- It is seventh highest dam in the world with a height of 258 meters. It is also going to be the world’s 4th largest Dam in terms of hydroelectric power. Construction on the Xiaowan Dam was started in January of 2002, and continues today. This hydroelectric arch Dam, on the River Lancany in South West China. Each power-generating units will have a 700 MW capacity.

Rocky Point – Circus Mexicus XX – Puerto Peñasco, Sonora

Nineteen times RCPM have traveled south of the border, set up a stage and put on a rock-n-roll party they call Circus Mexicus. And 19 times you, the fans, have not disappointed.

Now, Roger, Jim, PH and Nick are excited to host their biggest and best Circus Mexicus fiesta ever.

On June 11, 2011, Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers invite everyone to go down together to Rocky Point, Mexico, sit side-by-side in the cantinas and celebrate life through rock-n-roll at CIRCUS MEXICUS XX!

This will be one of the biggest weekends ever for RCPM and something no fan will want to miss.

Tickets for Circus Mexicus XX go on sale Monday! Tickets will be $30 in advance and $35 the day of the show.

The festivities for Circus Mexicus XX will kick off Friday night at JJ’s Cantina with PH Naffah’s annual Hot Dog & A Smile charity BBQ. All proceeds go to benefit the children at Esperanza Para Los Niños Orphanage. You can find more information at http://www.esperanzaparalosninos.com/.

To help celebrate the 20th Circus Mexicus, RCPM are inviting back some old friends who have performed at past Circus Mexicus events.

Headlining Friday night at JJ’s are the Hickman-Dalton Gang! Join Colorado’s two guitar legends, Johnny Hickman (Cracker) and Jim Dalton, as they play songs from their extensive collective catalog. And they may even throw in a few covers. If you’ve never seen a Hickman-Dalton show, just about any and every song is fair game.

Also appearing at JJ’s: Arizona’s Tramps and Thieves and Random Karma. And look for additional guests to be announced in the coming weeks!

On Saturday, it’s the second annual Rock and Soccer beach tournament. Details on sign-up and teams will be coming soon! Last year’s inaugural tournament was a huge success. This year’s games are being played on the beach at the reef.

That night, it’s four hours of rock-n-roll under the stars and fireworks in the sandy lot near the Sonoran Sea and Chango’s Bar. Opening for Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers Saturday night, Aaron Beavers and Shurman!

And Sunday, it’s one of our oldest traditions, the Mañanathon Hangover Bash at JJ’s with discounts on Bloody Mary’s and plenty of Mexican Moonshine to let your cups overflow.

In Praise of the All-American Mexican (Sonoran) Hot Dog

By JOHN T. EDGE
Published: August 25, 2009

“THE problem with American hot dogs is that they’re American,” said Tania Murillo, standing beneath a pink and blue bunny-shaped piñata, as she rang up an order of tortillas at Alejandro’s Tortilla Factory.

“A ketchup-and-mustard hot dog is boring,” continued Ms. Murillo, a high school senior. “They’re not colorful enough. You’ve got to make them colorful, and pile on the stuff. The best hot dogs come from Sonora,” the Mexican state immediately to the south. “Everybody knows that.”

In Tucson more than 100 vendors, known as hotdogueros, peddle Sonoran-style hot dogs — candy cane-wrapped in bacon, griddled until dog and bacon fuse, garnished with a kitchen sink of taco truck condiments and stuffed into split-top rolls that owe a debt to both Mexican bolillo loaves and grocery store hot dog buns.

Many, like Ruiz Hot-Dogs on Sixth Avenue, work step-side carts with two-item menus of Sonoran hot dogs and soft drinks. Set in dirt and gravel parking lots, beneath makeshift shelters, under mesquite tree arbors, these peripatetic vendors serve fast food for day laborers, craftsmen and policemen, the typical patrons of traditional hot dog stands in any town.

Other champions of the Sonoran style, like El Güero Canelo, with two Tucson outlets, have evolved from carts into full-scale restaurants. (At the Twelfth Avenue location, two of the three spaces where burritos, tacos and hot dogs are cooked and assembled remain on wheels, but the prospect of mobility is now far-fetched.)

One Sunday afternoon, as a mariachi band played, an after-church crowd, half Anglo and half Hispanic, thronged El Güero’s outdoor dining pavilion. Babies cried. Teenagers table-hopped. And parents argued that, rather than order a second hot dog, children should fill up at the salsa bar at the back of the pavilion, stocked with peeled cucumbers, sliced radishes and chunky guacamole. Front and center on every third table was a Sonoran hot dog.

For at least the last 40 years, likely longer, borderland vendors, in Tucson and elsewhere, have been refashioning the hot dog with a cloak of bacon, a clump of beans and a chop of tomatoes and onions, followed by squirts of mayonnaise, mustard and salsa verde. (Ketchup and other condiments show up, too. More recently, some vendors have begun offering a topping of crumbled potato chips.)

In a dozen or more cities across the United States, these Mexican takes on the American hot dog are ascendant — from Chicago to Denver to Los Angeles, where illegal street vendors selling so-called danger dogs to late-night crowds play hide-and-seek with the local health department.

Only in Tucson, however, do locals like Ms. Murillo cede hot dog provenance to Mexico. In Tucson, bacon-wrapped, Mexican-dressed hot dogs are not ascendant. They’re dominant.

A Mexican-American take on the hot dog aesthetic was relatively late to arrive. In 1940s Arizona, tamales were known, at least among speakers of colloquial English, as Mexican hot dogs. By the 1950s, true tamales were gaining mainstream status stateside, and American hot dogs had, more than likely, jumped the gate into Sonora and Baja and elsewhere.

The date at which bacon-wrapped hot dogs became known as Mexican hot dogs is unclear. The mystery deepens when you factor in that Sonora, one of the states most often cited as ground zero for bacon-wrapped hot dogs, is a locus for cattle ranching, not pig farming.

History of the Yaquis Sonora (Tribe with Rights)

In 1939, Mexican President Cardenas granted the Yaqui tribe official recognition and title to their land. this brought some improvements for the Yaquis, whose ancestral lands were party turned into a reservation (zona indígena) by presidential decree. For the first time in Mexican history, the federal government agreed to the establishment of a separate territory for its native inhabitants.

QUESTION:

The . Great Yaqui Nation Submitted by MAIC Member Ted Glines, Yaqui – from the official Yaqui Nation Website.

The Yaqui were never baffled militarily by the Spanish, acquisition alternating expeditions of conquistadores in battle. However, they were auspiciously adapted to Christianity by the Jesuits, who assertive them to achieve into eight towns: Pótam, Vícam, Tórim, Bácum, Cócorit, Huirivis, Benem, and Rahum.

For abounding years, the Yaqui lived affably in a accord with the Jesuit missionaries. This resulted in ample alternate advantage: the Yaqui were able to advance a actual advantageous economy, and the missionaries were able to apply the abundance created to extend their missionary activities added north. In the 1730s the Spanish colonial government began to adapt this relationship, and eventually ordered all Jesuits out of Sonora. This created ample agitation amidst the Yaqui and led to several rebellions. Further, the Franciscan priests never accustomed to be their religious leaders, abrogation the Yaqui with no western religious ties.

Yaqui baton Juan Banderas (executed 1833) admired to affiliate the Mayo, Opata, and Pima tribes, calm with the Yaqui, to anatomy an accord abstracted from Mexico in the 1820s, but the accomplishment bootless and the Yaqui remained aural the ambit of Mexican acknowledged authority.

The nation suffered a assumption of brutalities by the Mexican authorities, including a notable annihilation in 1868 area 150 Yaqui were austere to afterlife by the army central a church.

Another arresting (and failed) accomplishment to win ability was led by the Yaqui baton Cajemé in the 1880s. afterward this war, the Yaqui were subjected to added atrocity beneath the administration of Porfirio Díaz, who implemented a action of aboriginal transfer, in adjustment to abolish the Yaqui from Sonora so that he could animate clearing from Europe and the affiliated States. The government transferred tens of bags of Yaqui from Sonora to the Yucatán peninsula, area some were awash as disciplinarian and formed on plantations; abounding of these disciplinarian died from the barbarous alive conditions. abounding Yaqui fled to the affiliated States to escape this persecution. Today, the Mexican city of Cajeme is called afterwards the collapsed Yaqui leader.

ANSWER:

It appears they have Some rights in Mexico and more rights in Arizona, but as I understand they were never given all of the rights they deserve. their tribes were split between Arizona and Mexico (and still are) according to Treaty this would give them the right to cross the border into the U.S. without Immigration papers. all they are supposed to need is Proof that they are Yaqi. this is done with every known Indian tribe in Canada, but of course the U.S. will never miss an opportunity to discriminate against anyone or anything that hints of being Mexican, so all Indian Treaties are honored at the Canadian border and disregarded at the Mexican border.

In 1939, Mexican President Cardenas granted the Yaqui tribe official recognition and title to their land. this brought some improvements for the Yaquis, whose ancestral lands were party turned into a reservation (zona indígena) by presidential decree. For the first time in Mexican history, the federal government agreed to the establishment of a separate territory for its native inhabitants.

On September 18, 1978, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona became federally recognized: The Pascua Yaquis have a status similar to other Indian tribes of the United States. This status makes the Yaqui eligible for specific services due to trust responsibility that the United States offers Native American peoples who have suffered land loss.
Why do latin immigrants claim to be «Native American»?

Native American has become the most misused appellation in the western hemisphere. It is actually a word coined in my lifetime to describe our peoples and tribes here in the USA. The ones who came up with this term wanted to replace American Indian with it. In the last several years, uninformed people are passing this specific name to all the indigenous of the western half of the world. I am American NDN, from Calif, and I speak Spanish. Those people and the Mexicans were here long before the Americans got here. Many of us still speak their language, and English too. The problem comes when you try to give these people the name that is supposed to be reserved for us. The Mexican Indians do not claim to be American from Los Estados Unidos de Mexico. Same with any of the other countries from south of the border. They only begin to claim this name and this status when «la Migra» is after them. The fact is, Native American is a legal term describing Natives from within the borders of the USA, and our tribes. Nobody else from another country is entitled to this name, just like a Tarahumara from Mexico is not entitled to be called a Miwok from Calif.

Yaqui Lopez vs Yvon Durelle?

Yaqui Lopez for the win by fifteen round decision. Lopez is a little bit of a better fighter than Durelle is in this one. Lopez simply had the bad luck of fighting in a Light Heavyweight division which featured such superstars like Michael Spinks, Matthew Saad Muhammad, John Conteh and Victor Galindez. Too many talented boxers and he just never had the breaks of winning a Light Heavyweight title–not even briefly. Yvon Durelle is the obscure fisherman who gave Archie Moore one of the most exciting knockdown and drag-out fight in history and he came so close to pulling off the unthinkable upset. It was a fight which really transcended the sport. It was simply breathtaking that he could knock down one of the greats three times in a single round. However, in the rematch Moore figured him out and took him out in three rounds.