Salomón Quintero

Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative

Why the Mexica Story Matters

Historical memory shapes more than our understanding of the past. In the final installment of his Raíces series, Salomón Quintero explains why he chose the Mexica as the subject of Flight of the Hummingbird, and why recovering Indigenous history matters to Latino communities today.

Raíces — Our Story, Our Narrative

From Activism to Ancestral Memory: Why I Wrote Flight of the Hummingbird

A new volume of Raíces begins. Volume 1 gave our history a place. Volume 2 gives it a voice. Salomón Quintero, UC Berkeley Chicano movement veteran and 45-year attorney, on the questions that led him from the picket line to writing Flight of the Hummingbird.