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Mummified body of Chicana author found in New Mexico home after she had been dead for a year
much more, with pictures, at Daily Mail link aboveA 70-year-old woman whose mummified body was recently discovered in her Santa Fe apartment has been identified as a Chicana activist, teacher and author.
Santa Fe police said the decomposed remains of Barbara Salinas-Norman - known as Bobbi - were found last week and authorities say she may have been dead for more than a year.
A preliminary autopsy suggested that Ms Salinas-Normal died of natural causes in her apartment after becoming a hoarder and a recluse, cutting off her own sister and brother-in-law.
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Stories from friends and family suggested Salinas' life had been unraveling for some time. She often slept in her car and washed up in the bathroom at a local library.
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The New Mexican reports that Salinas-Norman founded and ran a publishing company called Pinata Publications in the office of her then-husband, Sam Norman, an Oakland lawyer.
She began writing, illustrating and publishing her own books designed to help Mexican American children identify with their culture. She gave up teaching to write full time in 1983.
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