GARADATOS
  • About Garadatos
    • Acerca de GaraDatos
  • Special Edition Issue - Espejitos
    • A rugged social landscape
    • Forming the image of the new settler
    • Latina Imprints
    • A New County
  • Issues
    • No. 3 (April, 2023)
    • No. 2 (June 2022)
    • No. 1 (May 2022)
  • Resource Organizations
  • Glossary -DEI vs. regressive paradigms
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Umatilla County Landscape


Life wasn't always rough for these pioneering women. Their submissive, kind, and quiet demeanor helped them overcome situations that would perhaps today be recognized as racially marginalizing. Several of them grabbed the county by the horns and tamed it. None sat by and allowed life to happen around them as much as they constructed their lives the way they understood would be the best path for their growing families. 

What their lives were like, their adaptation to that sometimes kind, often mean, always rugged social environment, is the subject of the content in this section. 


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Rosita in her daughter Delta's words​


​Rosamaría Zapata de Martínez, "Rosita," died in 2018 of Alzheimer's disease. She lived in Umatilla County for over 38 years. The younger of 2 daughters, Delta Colbray, describes her adjustment to life in Echo, and her lessons to her children on work. 

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  • About Garadatos
    • Acerca de GaraDatos
  • Special Edition Issue - Espejitos
    • A rugged social landscape
    • Forming the image of the new settler
    • Latina Imprints
    • A New County
  • Issues
    • No. 3 (April, 2023)
    • No. 2 (June 2022)
    • No. 1 (May 2022)
  • Resource Organizations
  • Glossary -DEI vs. regressive paradigms
  • Submissions
  • Contact
  • Around the Community