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My name is Christina and I am 49 years old. My nickname is "qui-qui" pronounced “kwee-kwee”. I don’t know what it means or why my dad started calling me that. Hee Hee
I believe “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. ” —Article 1 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) I have no tolerance for the Crimes of Genocide, Racial Discrimination, Discrimination against Women and Torture in any country. I also support the rights of the Child, All Migrant Workers and their family members and All Indigenous Peoples.
Please visit the Indigenous Environmental Network Website
I live in Vancouver, Washington with my husband Chuck, our daughter Kim, our dog Sparkie and our cats Keylee and Boo-Boo. We have lived in Vancouver since 1995. Prior to that we lived in Ventura, California and Santa Clarita, California. I was born in southern California and still consider my hometown to be Santa Clarita. I have 4 siblings. 3 of them older and 1 younger. 3 sisters and one brother. All of them live in California. My parents are in their 80s and live in a nursing home and we feel blessed that they are still with us. I was raised in a typical Chicano family. I am the descendant of Opata, Pima and Apache Indians (INDIGINEOUS TO THIS CONTINENT)who inter-married with German (possibly Jewish)and French immigrants who immigrated to Mexico.

The Opatas primitive name was"Joir-Ra-Hua" or "Joyl -Ra-Ua".
Included in this group are the Opata, Teguima, Eudeve and Jova Tribes. These indigenious tribes occupied the Opateria in the central and northern regions of Mexico and into southern Arizona. At one time they occupied areas of the Matape, Moctezuma, Middle Yaqui, San Miguel, Bavispe river valleys. Their territory extended from the Huachuca Mountains of southern Arizona into Central Sonora, Mexico.
The Opatas occupied an extensive area in the eastern and central parts of the state of Sonora, which corresponds now to almost all of the Sahuaripa and Moctezuma districts and parts of Ures and Arizpe. The center of the Opata civilization was located in the Sahuaripa region. Many Opata moved north across the U.S. border to Arizona and California in the late 1800s.
The tribal formations were distributed among the towns of Arizpe, Huepac, Bacoachi, Chinapa, Banamichi, Sinoquipe, Baviacora, Guasavas, Oputo, Bacadeguachi, Nacori, Bacerac, Bavispe, Guachinera, Oposura, Cumpas, Cuquierachi, Cucuta, Teuricatzi, Tepachi, Terrapa, Pipita, Yecora, Nacozari, Batepito and Corodeguachi.
Their languages are classified as Uto-Aztecan/Southern Uto-Aztecan/Sonoran/Cahita.
These tribes were/are also known as Opatas, Opates, Teguimas, Teguimes, Eudeves, Eudebes, Heves, Hegues, Heguis, Dohemas, Dohemes, Aibinos, Egue, Sisibotaris, Jovas, Jobals, Jovals, Ovas and Obagg'ata, Batucos, Huapec, Huazabas, Bacerac, etc. At times they were called by the names of their leaders or settlements by the missionaries.
Their leaders were Sisibotari, Cruz Vesve, Pablo Quilme, Miguel Sol, Bautista Sol, Dorame, Rafael Tanori, Juan Tanori, Espiritu, Dolores, Guiterrez, Antonio Baiza and many more.
To learn more about the Opata Tribes, visit my site at http://www.opatas.com or write to me at [email protected]
Please feel free to add me or send me a message anytime!
Take care and have a good day

My Interests



I have many interests. Angels, Anthropology, Archeology, Native American Indian Cultures, all Ancient Cultures, Art, Beads, Beadwork, Bicycling, Birds of Paradise, Butterflies, Camping, Cats, Cooking , Crafts, Crop Circles, Dragonflies, Dogs, Ducks, Ferrets, Fractals, Frogs, Golfing, Hummingbirds, Indigenous Peoples, Kayaking, Learning, Mandalas, Mazes, Technology, Photography, Macro Photography, Photo restoration, Puffins, Sewing , Singing and Wolves.

Check out my beadwork gallery:

first nations

Moses J. Brings Plenty

Loups-Wolves - sacred spirit ~Native American chant~ Enigma
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5zUomoea6Y


I'd like to meet:



Kim and Brandon

Ricky and TJ

Nana and Tata! This is a picture of their 50th Wedding Anniversary in 1999. They are both in a nursing home now. Please pray for them!

Grandmother

Grandfather

Great-grandmother

I believe in love, true love and that people can really find their soul mates.

Sparkie

WHAT THE?? KITTY GOT A TREAT! WHERE'S MINE!!!!!!!!

Cool Pic of JD. You like?

Congratulations Junior!

/mspobj

Music:

I like most types of music. I even like some Heavy Metal., but not too much (ha ha). I don’t like certain types of Rap.

My favorite musician is Carlos Santana.

I like Celine Dion, Gloria Esteban, Christina Aguilera, Bette Midler, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Charlotte Church, Jewel, Sarah Mclauchlan, Dianna Ross, Patti LaBelle, Dianna ross, Etta James, Macy Gray, Mariah Carey, Carrie Underwood, Alicia Keys, Faith Hill, Shania Twain, Martina McBride and Lee Ann Womack, Andrea Menard, Josh Groban, Robert Mirabel, Andrea Bocelli, Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw, Garth Brooks, John Mayer, Nat King Cole, Herbie Hancock, Al Jarreau, Luther Vandross, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and of course Barry White. These are not in order of preference.

Movies:

I like Action, Adventure, Animation, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Documentary, Drama, Family, Fantasy, History, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, TV mini-series, some Thrillers and Western. I don't like horror movies at all!
One of the funniest movies I've seen is called Bringing up Baby , 1938. Starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. "In this screwball comedy, heiress Susan is determined to catch a stuffy paleontologist and uses her pet leopard, Baby, to help get his attention. The elements of this farce include a yappy terrier who steals and buries an irreplaceable fossilized bone, a pompous big game hunter, a rich old aunt, a jealous fiancée, and a case of mistaken identity involving a second, and vicious, leopard. Written by Fiona Kelleghan {[email protected])
Another movie I thought was just so funny was Popeye 1980 starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall.
Movies of the 70s I like: Godfather, Godfather II, One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest, Star Wars, Taxi Drive, Appocalypse Now, Alien, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Jaws, The Deer Hunter, Young Frankenstein, All the President's Men, Rocky, Deliverance, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Blazing Saddles.
Movies of the 80's I liked Color Purple Star Wars V and VI Indianna Jones and the Last Crusade Rain Man The Goonies ET Ferris Bueller's Day Off Back to the Future Die Hard The Princess Bride (hee hee) Stand by Me Terminator Popeye
Movies of the 90s that I like: Dances with Wolves Thunder Heart Smoke Signals Last of the Mohicans 500 nations Last of the Dogmen Shindler's List The Matrix Saving Private Ryan Forrest Gump Terminator 2 Toy Story Lion King Braveheart Fargo Green Mile
Movies of the 2000s I like: All the Lord of the Ring movies, The Departed, The Pianist, Hotel Rwanda, The Missing, Windwalker, Coyote Waits, Into the West, Rattatouille, Apocolypto, Bourne Ultimatum, Gladiator, Letters from Iwo Jima, Finding Nemo, Little Miss Sunshine, 3:10 to Yuma, The Incredibles.

Television:

LOST! DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES! UGLY BETTY! Big Bang Theory, CSI, Project Runway, Bones, House, Boston Legal, Two & Half Men, American Idol, Gray's Anatomy, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, Fox News

MY FAVORITE CELEBS:

Books:


Cycles of Conquest
Rudo Ensayo: A Description of Sonora & Arizona in 1764,
The Opata: An Inland Tribe,
Marobavi: A Study of an Assimilated Group in Northern Sonora,
A Survey of Indian Assimilation in Eastern Sonora, Personal Narrative of the Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico, California, Sonora, and Chihuahua,
Unknown Mexico,
Pueblo of the Hearts,
Remnant tribes of Sonora: Opata, Pima, Papago and Seri in handbook of the Middle American Indians,
Themes of Indigenous Acculturation in Northwest Mexico,
Where the Dove Calls,
Pre-Hispanic Occupance in the Valley of Sonora, Mexico - Archaeological confiramtion of Early Spanish Reports,
Merejildo Grijalva: Apache Captive, Army Scout,
Los Tucsonenses,
Wandering Peoples,
Tubac Through Four Centuries,
Pimeria Alta Missions and More,
The Flower in the Skull - Alcala,
The Desert Remembers My Name - Alcala
Books of the Southwest The University of Arizona Library Electronic Text Projects,
Nacori Chico, Mexico: March 3-5, 2003,
ALGUNOS DATOS SOBRE LA ETNOGRAFIA DE LOS PIMAS Y LOS OPATAS Y SU IMPORTANCIA EN LA ARGUELOGIA EN EL NORESTE DEL ESTADO DE SONORA, EN EL SIGLO XVII. Arguelologo Cesar A. Quijada - INAH.
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THIS IS WHAT I WANT TO DO TO MY WORK COMPUTER! HA HA
BELOW ARE PICTURES OF ART BY MY FAVORITE ARTISTS!
Albert Biernstadt
Passing Into Womanhood by Howard Terpning
Plunder from Sonora by Howard Terpning
With Mother Earth by Howard Terpning
Apache Woman by Howard Terpning
Cheyenne Mother by Howerd Terpning
Holy Man of the Blackfoot by Howard Terpning
Medicine Man of the Cheyenne
Pride of the Cheyenne
Ready for the Dance by Howard Terpning
Shield of her Husband by Howard Terpning
The Rivers Gift by Howard Terpning
The Strength of Eagle by Howard Terpning
Karen Noles
Karen Noles
Susan Seddon Boulet
Blue Fire - Kirby Sattler
Natane by Kirby Sattler
Otter by Kirby Sattler
Buffalo by Kirby Sattler
Shadow on the Sun by Kirby Sattler
I am crow by Kirby Sattler
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Henri Petter! I LOVE ALL HIS WORK!
Diego Rivera's Feast of Santa Ana - 1931, Girl with Lillies,
Retrado de Ignacio
Does anyone know who painted this guardian angel? I remember as a small child falling asleep looking at this picture
Jesus Helguera
Charles Marion Russell's Doubtful Handshake
Leonardo Da Vinci's The Last Supper,
Leonardo di Vinci's Female Head (LaScapigliata)
Marjolein Bastin - 1995
Claude Monet's Water Lillies Morning, Frises, Saint-Remy, C. 1889
Thomas Kinkade's Stairway to Paradise, Garden of Promise.
Vincent Van Gogh's Almond Branches In Bloom.
Jess Davila's In High Thoughts.
William Weekes' Guilty Conscience!
Craig Tennat's Rainmaker!!!
Michelangelo Buonarroti's Creation of Man of course.
Try to guess what sculpture is my favorite. ha ha Moses is my second.
Jody Bergsma's ALL OF HER WORK.
Ben Crane's Too funny. Check him out!
David Penfond's Summoning the Storm.
Josephine Wall's Fairylights and Astral Voyage.
Georgia O'Keeffe's White Rose at Larkspur.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater, Mill Run, Penn.
Ansel Adams' Roots, Nevada Fall and Rainbow
T. Chiu's To everything there is.
Lisa Jane's Girl Asleep on Mushroom.
Howard Johnson's Fairy Circle.
James Ayers's Her husband's shirt.
Bill Shaddix'Colorado Moon and
Bill Shaddix'Hot Coffee and a Warm Bed
John James Louis Comfort
Tiffany's Dragonfly Lamp Circa 1902 is my favorite
Filippino Lippi
Botticelli
Bernardino Luini

Heroes:

I have many! These are not in order. PEOPLE THAT HAVE MADE A HUGE CONTRIBUTION TO MY LIFE AND THE WORLD. ALL NATIVE NORTH and SOUTH AMERICAN CHIEFS/LEADERS! My husband, my family, Chief Seattle, Zitkala-Sa, Chief Aupumat, Big Thunder, Luther Standing Bear, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Tecumseh, Black Elk, Black Hawk, Sacajawea, Sarah Winnemucca,Nanye-hi, Bufflo-Calf-Road Woman, Aliquipiso, Winyan Ohitika, Pocahantas, Queen Liliuokalani, La Malinche, Zitkala-sa, Wilma P. Mankiller, Kateri Tekakwitha, Edmonia Lewis, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Maria Tallchief, Nancy Ward, Sisibotari, Cruz Vesve, Pablo Quilme, Miguel Sol, Bautista Sol, Dorame, Rafael Tanori, Juan Tanori, Espiritu, Dolores, Guiterrez, Antonioa Baiza, Gustavo Guiterrez, Roy Cook, Jesus, Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Abraham Lincoln Martin Luther King Jr., Jesse Jackson, Ceasar Chavez, Oprah Winfrey, Dr. Maya Angelou, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Ross Tubman, Tina Turner, The Mexica Movement, Che Guevara, Goyaałé, "one who yawns"; often spelled Goyathlay or Goyahkla (Geronimo), Refugio Tanori, Rosa Parks, Margaret Thatcher, Louis Armstrong, Albert Einstein, Lucille Ball, Jim Henson, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, Ty Pennington, Dennis Banks, Leonard Peltier, The American Indian Movement, John Trudell,and I'm sure I've forgotten a few. ha ha!
You will notice that there is no picture of Jesus in the slide show because no one really knows what he looked like, right?
My sister Mary is the hero in my earliest childhood memories as I often suffered from nightmares and to this day I am a very vivid dreamer. So as a child that must have been very frightening.My sister is amazing! I admire her because despite all that she has been through in her life she's still a strong woman. She's a survivor. She's a warrior! I am so proud of her.

My Blog

Myspace.com Blogs - MESSAGE FROM LEONARD PELTIER AND HIS NEW OFFICIAL SITE, THE LPDOC. May 18,

http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.... ...
Posted by qui-qui on Fri, 30 May 2008 01:54:00 PST

Martin Luther King "I have a dream"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbUtL_0vAJk ...
Posted by qui-qui on Wed, 28 May 2008 11:19:00 PST

Martin Luther King / Ron Paul [Youtube banned this clip]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBtL3NIcAvU ...
Posted by qui-qui on Wed, 28 May 2008 11:16:00 PST

Grijalva Hearing Panel I -- Opening Statements

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuyvF-kjIsQ ...
Posted by qui-qui on Wed, 28 May 2008 10:53:00 PST

Grijalva Hearing Opening Statements

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlgBUtX1HCo ...
Posted by qui-qui on Wed, 28 May 2008 10:52:00 PST

Indians Invade Mount Rushmore-1970

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Wd1uLgV7mc ...
Posted by qui-qui on Tue, 27 May 2008 02:51:00 PST

Incident at Oglala (Part 04)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdVPNX0GlPI ...
Posted by qui-qui on Tue, 27 May 2008 02:44:00 PST

Incident at Oglala (Part 05)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0guABBXrLE ...
Posted by qui-qui on Tue, 27 May 2008 02:44:00 PST

Incident at Oglala (Part 03)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13egnw7DFY4 ...
Posted by qui-qui on Tue, 27 May 2008 02:43:00 PST

Incident at Oglala (Part 01)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSVf0oLR2Rk ...
Posted by qui-qui on Tue, 27 May 2008 02:42:00 PST