A Bonilla Family Tree: Context, Resistance & Reading Indigeneity

Barrios of Yauco: Red indicates Barrios where Bonillas were based

My latest blog post, is a Guest Post: A Bonilla Family Tree, is about the reading the larger context of Juan Eusebio Bonilla Salcedo’s life and family. This is one of my prima Teresa Vega’s ancestors, who was lynched in Yauco in 1890. Radiant Roots Boricua Branches is her blog. Appreciate this opportunity to delve into her Boricua branches!

Please read both posts at: Decolonizing My Family Tree: Revisting Juan Eusebio Bonilla Salcedo

One Reply to “A Bonilla Family Tree: Context, Resistance & Reading Indigeneity”

  1. This sounds like my mother’s family. Because of her large percentage of taino DNA she was selected for sterilization by Dr cornelius packard rhoads. By 1970 one third of all puerto women were sterized. Is this called genocide?

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