Zubiate Collection
Gregorio and Elena Zubiate and baby Lydia
(circa 1944)
"This is the earliest picture I have from my father and mother...This little girl.. my sister, she lived to be eight years old."
Jaime Zubiate's family.
"I met this one grandmother, my father's mother. She was born in 1893 and this is the only time I met her. I was probably around three years old there."
"This is a Tarahumara Indian from Chihuahua. Now the Tarahumara are native from Chihuahua they are true Mexicans and my mother on my mother's side there's some Tarahumara blood.
I know my father's side it's the Basque ancestors but my mother, she is full not full but part Tarahumara and there she is taking a picture with the Tarahumara."
Jaime Zubiate's mother (left) with a friend visit the cave she lived in with her family in Chihuaua.
"My mom would tell me ... when she was little she lived with her family, they were very poor and at one point they actually made a home out of a cave in Chihuahua."
Jaime Zupiate's family visiting Mexico in the 1970s.
"We would go back to Mexico now as tourists, as visitors, because we were living already in California and we're standing in front of a school where my brothers and sisters went when they were still living in Mexico...
I'm the first American citizen - the first one born in the United States."
"Now here is when we were already in California. My mom and dad and brothers, they all worked in the fields. I worked in the fields myself for a few years...
Now throughout this we were also part of the United Farm Workers "
Jaime Zubiate with his brother.
"This is around 1971 and that's me - there's no way he can pick me up like that now."
Jaime Zupiate's family in the 2000s.
"We still live in California. Well most of us - one sister lives in Washington. But we spread out because my mother was like the matriarch, and once she passed away in 2008 everybody kinda had to spread out.
My sister, the one smiling more, she lives in the coast Santa Barbara area - Santa Paula.
My oldest brother, he lives in Murrieta and I have one brother left here but we still keep in touch.
In fact last week we had a Zoom meeting and we kind of had a little family get-together."