Dr. Bernardo Gallegos, A Remembrance on Indigenous People's Day

Today, on Indigenous People's Day, I express my condolences to the family of my dear, departed friend and colleague, Dr. Bernardo Gallegos, an outstanding scholar whose work, I feel, has never gotten the attention it deserves.  He passed away peacefully last week in his home.

I encourage you to read his work that addresses Indigeneity and education, including his autobiographical writings from his experiences growing up in New Mexico as a Genizaro.

Dr. Gallegos spoke to my class a couple of years ago on his powerful autobiography that had just gotten published at the time, Postcolonial Indigenous Performances: Coyote Musings on Genízaros, Hybridity, Education, and Slavery (2017). Appearing below is a notice of his funeral services to be held in California this weekend.

Thank you for your friendship and for being an inspiration to so many, myself included, through your outstanding contributions to scholarship.  Thank you for sharing and theorizing of your numerous life stories that always seemed to track back to your youth and the fountain of insights related to having grown up as a Genizaro, nourishing your powerful intellect and generous heart and spirit.

A number of his other publications appear below.

May you rest in peace, my friend.  What a difference you made and will continue to make in the world.

-Angela Valenzuela

Dr. Bernardo Gallegos

Publications

• Gallegos, B. P.. (2018). Reflections on the Social Foundations of Education. Educational Studies, 54(1): 55-62.
• Gallegos, B. P.. (2016). Education and Indigenous Slavery in New Mexico. American Educational History Journal, 43(1): 16.
• Gallegos, B. P.. (2015). Sixteenth Century Indigenous Scholars of El Colegio de Santa Cruz de Tlaltelolco. Professing Education, 10(1): .
• Gallegos, B. P.. (2012). The Education of Hummingbird Boy. The Sophists Bane: A Journal of the Society of Professors of Education., 6(1): .
• Gallegos, B. P.. (2017). Postcolonial Indigenous Performances: Coyote Musings on Genízaros, Hybridity, Education, and Slavery. Postcolonial Indigenous Performances: Coyote Musings on Genízaros, Hybridity, Education, and Slavery.
• Gallegos, B. P.. (2010). Handbook of Research in Social Foundations of Education.
• Gallegos, B. P.. (2004). Performance Theories and Education, Power, Pedagogy, and the Politics of Identity.
• Gallegos, B. P.. (2003). Indigenous Education in the Americas: Diasporic Identities, Epistemologies, & Postcolonial Spaces, Special Issue: Educational Studies Journal.
• Gallegos, B. P.. (1991). Literacy, Education, and Society in Colonial New Mexico, 1693 to 1821.
• Gallegos, B. (2010). Introduction: Globalization, Institutions, and Power. Handbook of Research in Social Foundations of Education.
• Gallegos, B. P.. (2010). Curriculum Studies in Relation to the Field of Educational Foundations. Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies. 5.
• Gallegos, B. P.. (2010). Subaltern Curriculum Studies. Encyclopedia of Curriculum Studies. 7.
• Gallegos, B. P.. (2010). "Dancing the Comanches", The Santo Nino, La Virgen (of Guadalupe) and the Genizaro Indians of New Mexico. Indigenous Symbols and Practices in the Catholic Church. 24.