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The cultural arts academy Los Cenzontles is a second home for kids in San Pablo, California. Verenice Velazquez explains how this immigrant community holds onto its heritage through music and art.
Dr. Aaron Wright and Charles Arrow explain how their archaeology project in the Great Bend of the Gila has confirmed that the Anza expedition followed Indigenous trails.
Maria Ana Reyes, owner of Lute Farms, recounts her journey migrating to the United States from Mexico and starting an organic farming business with her daughters.
Angel Enriquez Breault from Tucson Clean & Beautiful leads a group of volunteers in conservation efforts along the Santa Cruz River in a project called Reconciliation on the River
The Anza Trail Cultural History Park is a case study for making cultural history accessible using universal design principles. The park is a youth-designed space for people of all ages and abilities serves as a public park as well as an outdoor classroom for the Arizona School for the Deaf and the Blind. Features of the park include a plaza lined with native plants and an accessible pathway with interactive, accessible exhibits.
Duration:
8 minutes, 33 seconds
El Corrido de Anza
El Corrido de Anza uses the traditional form of Mexican narrative song - the corrido - to tell the story of the 1775-1776 Anza expedition to settle Alta California. In partnership with the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail, California-based Mexican roots band, and nonprofit cultural arts academy, Los Cenzontles (The Mockingbirds) wrote and produced this epic corrido and music video highlighting important historic sites and landscapes along the Anza Trail. The corrido creates a musical journey that, through its form and vibrant style, stitches together the past and present. It reminds us of the cultural contributions this diverse group of immigrants brought to the United States and our strong and enduring relationship with our neighbors in Mexico.
The music video stars las cantantes Fabiola and Lucina recounting the Anza expedition story in song. The story is told from the historic sites and landscapes along the the 1200-mile long Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail and sections of the historic route in Mexico. Locations include: the coast of Sinaloa on the Gulf of California (Mar Bermejo) where Captain Anza recruited settlers to join the expedition to Alta California; Las Lagunas on the US-Mexico border; Tumacácori National Historical Park and Tubac Presidio in southern Arizona; the Sonoran Desert National Monument; the Mojave Desert; the Missions of California (Mission San Gabriel and Mission San Antonio de Padua); and, of course, San Francisco.
Los Cenzontles are a Mexican-American roots group and cultural arts academy that has researched, promoted, and even revived Mexican rural musical traditions. Group member Emiliano Rodriguez describes the importance of what they do as "not just preserving the culture, but using tradition to build new tradition." Los Cenzontles was founded by musician and educator Eugene Rodriguez in 1994. They are based in San Pablo, California. Learn more about their music and cultural arts academy on the Los Cenzontles website.
El Corrido de Anza was written by Los Cenzontles founder and Executive Director, Eugene Rodriguez, and lyricist Gilberto Gutierrez Silva. A corrido is a traditional Mexican narrative ballad with a particular structure. This corrido consists of 45, four-line stanzas, that tell an inspiring historical portrait of the Anza expedition from its start in Mexico’s Sonoran Desert to its final destination, the founding of the San Francisco Presidio.
A quarterly call between NPS and partners to share work happening along the Anza Trail. A recap of past and upcoming Anza 250 events with a panel including Natalie Hagar, Beverly Lane, Jana Kilpatrick, Tom Walsh, and Scott Gale.
A quarterly call between NPS and partners to share work happening along the Anza Trail. A recap of past and upcoming Anza 250 events with a presentation by Dr. Aaron Wright.
We've developed a video resource for teachers and parents to use at home. Our partners at the Environmental Education Exchange (E3) have developed a video presentation of a popular in-person classroom program about the Anza expedition of 1775-1776. Exploring the Anza Trail is an interdisciplinary program developed for 4th-grade students by E3, a non-profit organization that provides programs for the advocacy of environmental and cultural literacy.
Duration:
49 minutes, 40 seconds
Last updated: April 27, 2026
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