500 Years of Native Survival – Balmy Alley, Mission District, San Francisco, California

The Mujeres Muralistas was a group of Chicana/Latina artists in the Mission District who pioneered large-scale, woman-painted outdoor murals. In the words of Patricia Rodriguez: "One big motivation for us was recognizing that there had been no successful women muralists in the Mexican mural movement. We wanted to show that women could also paint large outdoor murals. Another factor was the lack of support from the men painting murals in the Mission District who were also critical of the subjects we wanted to paint. We knew that because we were not harassed by police like the men were, and because we had not suffered by having fought in Vietnam, we had a different visual story to tell. We had the freedom to paint whatever we wanted, and we chose the beauty of women and their Mexican and Latino cultures."

As Muralista Irene Perez put it, "We brought fine art to the streets and added the beauty of women in our culture." The mural celebrating 500 years of Indian resistance was painted in 1992 by Perez. The mural makes reference to Coyolxauhqui – the Aztec Goddess of the Moon.