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Canary Islands France Freedom Writers Immigration Indigenous Tribal land Disputes Proving Blood lines Language Survival Apache, Sioux, Shoshone Aztlan Aztlanahuac Kokopelli Internet links |
Languages Latin America Library Congress Oceanside, CA North Carolina Minnesota Medievel Links in Spanish Lousiana Maldonado history |
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Television Texas San Antonio Edinburg Hands Across Southwest Chisholm United Way Report Please feel welcomed to send articles and tidbits of historical and genealogical interest to Latinos. |
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thanks to all the Contributors to this Issue: Earlene Covert Anthony Garcia George Gause Gabriel Gutierrez Gary Hoffman Iris Jones Alex King Jackie Lamorie John O. Leal Sharleen Maldonado Jose Rivera Nieves Shirley Pitchforth Charles Sadler John Schmal Robert Smith Mira Smithwick Johanna de Soto Josie Treviño-Treviño Don Gomez Ernest Uribe Bob Waddill Doug Westfall Emily Ortiz Wichmann |
Dear Primos, January 27-29 the
San Diego Genealogical Society hosted GENTECH 2000, a conference
dedicated to "Bringing Genealogy and Technology
Together." Ninety-eight workshops were offered, ranging in
computer literacy from beginners to advanced discussions on fiber and
digital communication. In addition to abundant books for sale and
genealogical displays of many societies, the latest of family history
software was demonstrated. It was an outstanding event and surely
met its goal of bringing family researchers closer to an
understanding of what kind of resources are available through
technology. In addition to my own exploring, I have received URLs
for many valuable sites from our "Surfing Primos." You will
see many websites in this issue.
It is like secret archives are opening their treasures to our
historical awareness. We just have to use the keys of our keyboard to
explore the riches of the world's libraries. Happy hunting. |
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SHHAR involved Events: |
SHHAR
Board
Members:
Bea Armenta Dever Edward B. Flores Mimi Lozano Holtzman Gloria Cortinas Oliver Teresa Maldonado Parker Charles Sadler Laura Arechabala Shane If you'd like to help at any of the events, please call (714) 894-8161. |
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We are a nation of
immigrants. Herbert H. Lehman, |
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The United States, an Immigration
Nation |
| Highly
recommended is an outstanding 20-page sequence of articles about
immigration in the January/February 2000, Vol. 52, #1 of the
magazine - - Preservation.
The articles point out that once again, the United States is assimilating millions of new arrivals, and once again, the influence of new cultures is transforming America life; however, the author identifies and describes the nation's new melting pot as multiple melting pots. |
The
number of foreign-born Americans is now more than 25 million, and
it is increasing more than three times as fast as the growth of the
native-born population. Among the foreign-born: 1 in 2 is Hispanic, 1 in 4 is Asian, 1 in 7 is non-Hispanic white, 1 in 33 is Black. |
| Minorities
will be the majority of the population in California within two years,
and they will probably attain the majority in Texas around 2008. Although flows of immigrants can change dramatically from year to year, the largest suppliers of newcomers to the United States are: Mexico 3,719,000 legal arrivals since 1990 China 430,000 Russia 400,000 As in the past, between 1990 and 1998 immigrants migrated and settled in major coastal cities. |
The
10 biggest magnets were:
East coast |
| Today's
influx of immigrants shows greater economic and racial diversity than
that of 1900, which was dominated by working-class Europeans. Today's
group includes millions of illegal immigrants who live in poverty but
also thousands of physicians, engineers, computer programmers, and other
well-trained professionals, producing "bimodal" levels of
educational achievement. according to demographer William Frey.
In other words, an immigrant is more likely than a native-born American to be either a Ph.D. or a high school dropout. What is being observed are two Americas: One that is young, urban hip, and multiracial, and another that is aging, village traditional, and mostly white. Only one quarter of the native- born population lives in these metros which include the sprawling suburbs surrounding them, but two-thirds of 1990s immigrants live there, according to demographer Frey. |
Below
the big 10 are several other metropolitan areas with smaller but
substantial immigrant populations. Significantly, these
places are seeing more rapid growth than the biggest metros, a
sign that immigrants are spreading out. Between 1990 and 1997, the
Hispanic population grew rapidly in the following areas:
Las Vegas, Nevada more than doubled On a national basis, Hispanics comprise an increasing number of homeowners. From 1994 to 1998, the number of Hispanic-owned homes grew from 3.16 to 3.99 million through the country said Bob Callis, a statistician with the U.S. Census Bureau. Source: The Family Tree, February/March 2000, Vol. X, # 1 |
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United Way Report "American Dream Makers " How the American dream is
being molded by Latinos' daily lives in multicultural Los Angeles. David
E. Hayes-Bautista, professor of medicine and director of the Center for
the Study of Latino Health and Culture at UCLA identifies three areas of
concern to realize the American Dream: Los Angeles Times, 2-7-00 |
| Median 1998 wages for various California ethnic groups: Source: California Research Bureau Orange County Register, 8-19-99 | Anglo
$27,000 Asians $24,000 Blacks $23,000 |
Other
$23,000 Latinos $14,560 |
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Summit
of Mayors |
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first California/Mexico Summit of Mayors, a three-day conference
in Irvine and Santa Ana attracted about 500 participants and was
attended by 40 mayors from Mexico.
The summit evolved from a trip last year to
Guadalajara, Mexico made by Santa Ana Mayor Miguel A. Pulido Jr..
Assisted by Irvine Mayor Christina L. Shea, three other
California mayors, and the Orange County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce,
the aim was to increase cross-border trade, to strengthen business ties
between the two countries. Los Angeles Times, 2-15-00 |
The
following day, in-coming president of the Orange County's Hispanic
Chamber of Commerce, Ruben A.
Smith, had made initial contacts in response to a suggestions
made by Mayor Pulido. Working with California State University, Fullerton, the concept is to build a Web site that will enable municipal governments in Mexico to shop online for used equipment being discarded by towns and cities north of the border, such as fire trucks, ambulances, and other equipment necessary for running a city. Mexico is Orange County's largest trading partner, with $2 billion worth of goods shipped south of the border in 1999, about 20% of the county's total. Orange County Register, 2-16-00 |
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Businesses in Mexico Slowly Climbing Online Abstract from article by
Brendan M. Case, The Dallas Morning News, |
| Only 1.5 million to
2 million Mexicans use the Internet, and even fewer have their own
accounts. Thomas Wenrich, who runs the Mexico city office of
the Boston Consulting Group fears that Mexico
is falling far behind other countries in information technology and
Internet use. He believes that it could limit Mexico's
social and financial effects. Wenrich predicts that Mexican Web Sites would (only) gross $4.6 million in business to consumer electronic sale, compared with an expected $68 million in Brazil, the leader in Latin America. |
| Coso, a
Huichol Indian from the state of Jalisco, moved his family to Mexico
City a few years ago to make the beaded Huichol masks popular in their
impoverished native village. Now the Coso family sells them online
through a company called Novica.
Hugo Martinez thought people outside of Mexico might like to eat candy made out of chili and tamarind pulp. He opened Alimentos Matre online at <lucasworld.com> and has since attracted customers world-side. A new client is Wal-Mart, the Bentonville, Arkansas based retail giant.
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Grupo
Televisa, the world's largest Spanish-language media conglomerate,
announced plans in January to invest $80 million in a portal site, such
as AOL or Yahoo. One of the hottest races is to become Mexico's dominant
portal. Competitors include: Monterrey-based, Todito.com, two Argentine companies, ElSitio.com and Yupi..com and Brazil's, Submarino.com |
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Three new Nickelodeon Television series will feature Hispanic Leads Nickelodeon Executive vice President Cyma Zarghami called the Hispanic-oriented new shows "a rounding out of our efforts to reflect the world of kids. Nickelodeon is the the top-rated basic cable channel.The three shows, among the eight new series for the 2000-01 season, will be: |
| "Taina," a multi- generational series about a 14-year-old Hispanic girl in New York City. | "The Brothers Garcia," which revolves around a Mexican-American family in San Antonio told from the perspective of the youngest of four siblings, described as a Hispanic 'Wonder Years." | "Dora the Explorer" will feature a 7-year old Hispanic girl who lives inside a computer. In every episode, she invites young viewers to participate in an adventure. |
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from article by Frazier Moore, The Associated Press,
2-19-00 Submitted by Win Holtzman |
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Long Beach, California teacher, Erin Gruwell, shocked at the lack of
historical awareness of the Holocaust among a classroom of high school students,
developed a curriculum dealing with injustices based on racial and ethnic
intolerance. Her curriculum was accepted by the school board and she was able to
keep the same students for four years. Inspired by "The Diary of Anne
Frank" and that of a Bosnian teenager Zlata Filipovic, students in
Gruwell's classes between 1994 and 1998 began keeping diaries. The results were
not only increased racial understanding, but improved classroom attendance and
performance. |
Dubbing themselves the Freedom Writers in honor of the '60s civil right activities in October the writing efforts of the students were published, "The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Group of Extraordinary Teens Used Writing to change Themselves and the World Around Them." Grunwell and five of her Freedom Writers went on a cross-country book tour; magazine and newspaper interviews, TV guest shots, even appearing before Congress. (Doubleday; $12.95) Proceeds from the book sale will go towards a foundation to help pay for the college tuitions fees of the Freedom Writers. Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times, 2-13-00 |
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Alfred V. Rascon, Medal
of Honor winner
The nation on February 7, 2000 bestowed its highest military honor on a Mexican American veteran who was not yet a citizen when he used his body to shield fellow U.S. Army soldiers from deadly enemy fire in the jungles of Vietnam. In a White House ceremony 34 years after the fact, former medic Alfred V. Rascon was awarded the Medal of Honor and saluted by President Clinton for "a rare quality of heroism" displayed in deeds that kept North Vietnamese regulars from wiping out his reconnaissance platoon. The nomination of Rascon, who was raised in Oxnard, was held up for years by mishandled paperwork, then high-level Pentagon resistance. |
It was approved only last May, after a seven-year crusade by platoon members of the 173rd Airborne Brigade and other advocates. Chicanos soldiers died in disproportionate numbers and were the highest per capita of the number receiving medals for bravery in the Vietnam War. |
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"The
Black
Legend" Even the Spanish
conquistadores, who
never saw a virgin piece of land they couldn't find reason to violate,
took a pass on the outside keys . . . . |
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Information on the film "Santitos"
was
sent to Somos Primos by four people: Ernesto Uribe, Anthony Garcia,
George Gause
and Charles Sadler. Highly recommended, "Santitos" was compared to
"Like Water For Chocolate" for its general appeal and high quality.
"Santitos" is based on the book called "Esmeralda's Box of
Saints" by Maria Amparo Escandon. The film received a great review in the
LA Times and according to amigos who have seen it, it is a fantastic
movie. It
was showing across the country the first week of February. |
Writer María Amparo Escandón sends her enchanting
heroine on a madcap search for her daughter in a bittersweet journey of
self-discovery. Brought to life through a colorful cast of complex, quirky
characters, and packed with surprises, "Santitos" is a painful comedy
that will touch the heart and soul. The film is co-produced by John Sayles and
directed by Alejandro Springall. The film won the following awards: Sundance Film Festival Latin American Jury Award Rita Award Los Angeles International Film Festival Premio OCIC Organizacion Catolica Internacional Best Hispanic FIlm Santa Fe Film Festival http://www.santitos.com/english/film/film.html http://www.LatinoLA.com http://www.santitos.com http://www.universolatino.net |
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MARCH DATES
March 1, 1790: Congress authorized the first U.S. census March 1, 1845: Pres. Tyler signed a congressional resolution to annex the Republic of Texas. March 1, 1867: Nebraska became the 37th state. March 2, 1836: Texas declared its independence from Mexico. March 2, 1897: President Cleveland vetoed legislation that would have required a literacy test for immigrants. March 2, 1917: Puerto Ricans were granted U.S. citizenship. |
March
3, 1513: Ponce de Leon sailed from Puerto Rico to find the fabled
Fountain of Youth.
March 3, 1845: Florida became the 27th state. March 3, 1931: "The Star Spangled Banner" officially became the national anthem of the United States. March 3, 1956: Morocco gained it's independence from Spain. March 4, 1791: Vermont became the 14th state. March 4, 1897: William McKinley was sworn in as the 25th President. March 4, 1933: Franklin d. Roosevelt was inaugurated president, pledging to lead the country out of the Great Depression. |
March 5, 1766: Spanish official Don Antonio de Ulloa arrived in New
Orleans to take possession of the Louisiana Territory from the French. March 5, 1912: Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sunk NE of Spain, 500 died. March 6, 1480: Treaty of Alcacovas gave the Canary Islands to Spain. March 6, 1836: The siege of the Alamo ended when Mexican troops under General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna captured the mission fort. March 7, 1808: Portugal's regent Dom Joao IV arrived in Rio de Janeiro. |
March 7, 1847: Troops under US General Winfield Scott occupied Vera Cruz, Mexico. March 7, 1911: the united States sent 20,000 troops to the Mexican border in the wake of the Mexican Revolution. March 8, 1782: The Gandenhutten massacre took place as some 90 American Indians were slain by militiamen in Ohio in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians. March 8, 1917: US invaded Cuba for 3rd time. March 8, 1943: Limited gambling legalized in Mexico. |
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March 9, 1731: Canary Island families arrived in San Antonio, Texas. March 9, 1916: Mexican raiders led by Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, N.M., killing more than a dozen people.
March 9, 1990: Dr. Antonia Novello was sworn in as surgeon general,
becoming the first woman and first Hispanic to hold the job. March 10, 1496: Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western hemisphere as he left Hispaniola for Spain. March 10, 1848: the Senate ratified the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the war with Mexico. March 10, 1864 Ulysses S. Grant became commander of the Union armies in the Civil War. |
March 10, 1946: Train derailment killed 185 near Aracaju, Brazil. March 10, 1952: The government of Cuba was overthrown by former president Fulgencio Batista, who ruled as a dictator until 1959. March 11, 1888: The famous "Blizzard of 88" struck the northeastern United States, resulting in some 400 deaths. March 13, 1901: The 23rd president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, died in Indianapolis. March 13, 1925: A law went into effect in Tennessee prohibiting the teaching of evolution. March 15, 1493: Christopher Columbus returned to Spain, concluding his first voyage to the Western Hemisphere.
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March 15, 1767: The seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was born in Waxhaw, S.C. March 15, 1820: Maine became the 23rd State. March 17, 1905: Eleanor Roosevelt married Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York. March 18, 1837: the 22nd and 24th president of the united States, Grover Cleveland, was born in Caldwell, N.J. March 18, 1937: More than 400 people, mostly children were killed in a gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas. March 21, 1603: Ship "San Diego" returned to Mexico with descriptions of the Pacific Coast of Central America. March 21, 1806: Benito Pablo Juarez was born in Oaxaca, Mexico. President of Mexico 1858-1872.
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March 25, 1911: 146 immigrant workers were killed when fire broke out at the Triangle Shirtwaist Co. in New York City. March 26, 1804: The Louisiana Purchase was divided into the Territory of Orleans and the District of Louisiana. March 27, 1512: Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. March 28, 1939: The Spanish Civil War ended as Madrid fell to the forces of Francisco Franco. March 28, 1834: The U.S. Senate voted to censure President Andrew Jackson for the removal of federal deposits from the Bank of the United States. March 29, 1847: Victorious forces led by Gen. Winfield Scott occupied the city of Veracruz after Mexican defenders capitulated. March 30, 1870: Texas was readmitted to the Union. |
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Researching in California |
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Do Stanford University & the U.C. System In 1868, San Francisco's powerful "Big Four businessmen - Leland Stanford, Mark Hopkins, Charles Crocker and Collis Huntington bought the original 80-acre Reno town site. The men were building the western end of the transcontinental railroad. The site -now Reno's casino core - was subdivided, then sold to the city's early residents. The Big Four sold the lots, but not the streets. Downtown Reno was part of a vast real-estate empire the Big four assembled while building the Central Pacific Railroad from Sacramento to Promontory Point, Utah. The Big Four combined their assets into the Pacific Improvement Association, which was used to benefit the California universities. |
The U.C. system is heir to half the Big Four's money and property, the shares owned by Hopkins and Huntington. Stanford one-quarter share was used to build Stanford University in Palo Alto. The other quarter share went to Crocker's heirs, who were not named in the lawsuit because the city could not locate them. Washoe district Judge Steven Kosach must rule in a lawsuit over the city of Reno's policy of charging casinos rent for skywalks built over down-town streets. Stanford and U.C. officials gave no indication what they would do with the streets if they won. The Associated Press, via Orange County Register, 2-14-00 |
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"California as I Saw It:" Full texts and illustrations of 190 works documenting the formative era of California's history through eyewitness accounts. The collection covers the dramatic decades between the Gold Rush and the turn of the twentieth century. It captures the pioneer experience; encounters between Anglo-Americans and the diverse peoples who had preceded them; the transformation of the land by mining, ranching, agriculture, and urban development; the often-turbulent growth of communities and cities; and California's emergence as both a state and a place of uniquely American dreams. |
The production of this collection was supported by a generous grant from the
David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Alex writes that the above is part of a
site called "American Memory". This is an incredible project on the
part of the Library of Congress. I tried searching (in the "full text"
box) for "Manuel Baca, Vaca" and it quickly pulled-up 17 works;
clicking on each presented additional buttons, including a "best
results" one that quickly pulled-up the textual reference! |
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Site for above: http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/calbk:@field(DOCID+@lit(C026)) |
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Information on obtaining
copies of Spanish and Mexican land grants on record in
Sacramento, |
A California Don Manuel Dominguez Don Manuel Dominguez was married to Maria Engracia Cota. He was a delegate from Los Angeles, County to the first constitutional convention at Monterey. Don Manuel was born in San Diego in 1803 he was the son of Don Cristobal Dominguez. Don Manuel was elected a member of Ayuntamiento of Los Angeles. Four years later he was named first "alcalde" |
and was also given the position of judge of the first instance for Los Angeles. Don Manuel's great ranch amounting to ten and a half leagues, or 25,000 acres. The Rancho de San Pedro, extending from the Pacific Ocean on the west to the San Gabriel river on the east. He also clamed Rattlesnake Island. Thanks to Bob Waddill, a descendent of |
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Stealing California's Spanish Heritage Dr. Robert L. Hoover, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology , Cal Poly San Luis Obispo identifies common thievery of items from California missions as a serious threat to protecting the historical heritage of California's missions. Missions San Miguel and San Antonio have been particularly hard hit by thieves. |
| In 1997, the left side of a wooden 1700th century tabernacle door, ca. 35 x23 inches, with a painted head figure carved in relief was stolen. In 1998 an 1800th century head from a gilded, carved, and painted wooden Madonna figure disappeared. The latest theft in 1999 consisted of an 1800th century Mexican oil painting of St. Anthony, ca 19.5 x 13 inches, which was but out of its frame and presumably rolled up by the thief. | Please
tale a careful look at the CMSA web page: http://www.ca-missions.org
where you will see color photos of the stolen items. and contact the
local police where the mission is located.
Noticias para Los Californianos, Vol. 32,
#2, April 2000 |
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California Missions: Earlene Covert <earlenesroots@mindspring.com> invites you to look at her website: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/2740/missions.html |
| I am a historical publisher, doing research on the Grijalva's in America and California. I have information going back to 1518 on Juan de Grijalva up to 1806 on Juan Pablo Grijalva in (Alta) California. Anyone wishing to contribute to this new publication, please contact me, Doug Westfall at: ParagonAG@aol.com, or go to our website: http://www.SpecialBooks.com |
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The Maritime
Heritage Project http://www.maritimeheritage.org
This is a must see site for understanding both the changes in California due to the Gold Rush and the part that steamships made in the development of the west coast. Overland immigration during the Gold Rush is the subject of hundreds of novels and movies, yet it is a matter of record that California's rapid development was due to commerce by sea. When winter storms blocked overland trails during 1848-49, fortune seekers booked passage on anything afloat: 762 vessels cleared eastern ports for San Francisco that first winter after the discovery of gold. By January 1850, 39,888 people arrived in 805 vessels. By the end of 1852, San Francisco was the third most important port in the Nation, after New York and Boston. |
The Maritime Heritage Project is a California non-profit dedicated to preserving California's shipping history from the 1850s to the turn of the Century. The Project focus is on steamships, their captains, and passengers. The Project will include all the ships sailed by Captain James H. Blethen and Captain James H. Blethen, Jr., ancestors of the Project's Founder. The Blethens, both Master Mariners, plied the Pacific Ocean from 1850 through the early 1900s, bringing passengers from Nicaragua and Panama, mail to New Zealand and Australia, and goods from exotic Pacific seaports to San Francisco. Included is ship's log information, paths and ports, Captains, important passengers, books, trivia, other maritime reference sites. Information, contact: TheMHP@usa.net |
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San Diego Historical Society The San Diego Historical Society is located in Balboa Park, San Diego. Our website includes 130 biographies, photographs, unusual stories and a free surname search of their site. Among their collection are more than 2 million photographs plus negative, oral histories, scrapbooks, postcards, newspapers, magazines, and journals. Posted on their website is: The people listed below have each played a significant role in San Diego history. There are, of course, many others. Send us a biography of an important San Diegan - we'll add it to our Research Archives. We may even post it on this page, though it is limited to San Diegans no longer living. Mail your biography to our Research Archives or submit it as an e-mail attachment to webmaster@sandiegohistory.org. http://edweb.sdsu.edu/sdhs/bio/biographies.htm Submitted by Robert Smith |
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Jose Antonio Aguirre
(c.1793- )
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William Templeton
Johnson (1877-1957) |
| Ancestry in
the San Diego Area
Look at http://www.cgssd.org first! With the explosive growth of the San Diego area since World
War II, most people think of the area as a place they came to rather than a
place they came from. But history of European settlement of this area goes back
over 225 years and Asians arrived not long after the Padres. Here are some sites
that can help you find your ancestors who once lived in the area. |
USGenWeb Site
for San Diego County http://www.compuology.com/cagenweb/sdiegcty.htm Microsoft's Sidewalk San Diego section on community http://sandiego.sidewalk.com/link/17319 San Diego Historial Society http://edweb.sdsu.edu/sdhs/ RoadRunner's Around Town feature on San Diego History http://www.san.rr.com/features/history/ by Webmaster Gary Hoffman ghoffman@ucsd.edu. |
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Changes in Adoption Laws From Sacramento Bee, 30 Dec 1999, we read 'The three member Oregon
Appeals Court unanimously upheld the nation's first voter- passed law
giving adopted people access to their birth records. The State lifted
the injunction barring the Health Division from releasing birth
documents and began processing applications. They stated that mothers |
Registrar for vital records stated that the first certificates could
be mailed out by the end of the first week in January. Iris Carter Jones, Legislative Coordinator, |
| Los Ilenos De
Galvez, The Canary Islanders to
Lousiana,
1777 England seized several Spanish boats on Lake Ponchartrain in May 1777. In August 1777, the Spanish Crown commanded the governor and commandant general of the Canary Islands to enlist seven hundred men for service in Louisiana. Emigration to Louisiana offered to the islanders opportunity to escape the deplorable conditions in which they lived. More than three hundred inhabitants of Gomera chose to leave for Louisiana. The recruits appear to have come from five of the seven islands. The immigrant soldiers needed to be between 17 and 36 years of age, at least five feet one-half inch tall, robust and without noticeable imperfections or vice. Preference was given to married men. The wives, children, and close relatives of the recruits would be transported to Louisiana at royal expense. Eight ships transported the 2,010 Islenos from the Canaries. The last ship, El Sagrado Corazon de Jesus, departed on May 31, 1779, but was detained in Havana because the Governor of Havana did not think Louisiana was a safe place due to proximity of the British troops at Baton Rouge. Many of these Islenos never finished the journey to Louisiana. Copies of the passenger lists of the eight ships are in the books referenced. Louisiana Governor Bernardo de Galvez welcomed the first group of Canary Islanders in November 1778. He decided to employ all the immigrant-recruits as settlers only, because of the impossibility of keeping the married recruits in the regiments with their large families. Galvez established the first community, Valenzuela, on Bayou Lafourche, just past Donaldsonville. Today, this is the site of Belle Alliance plantation, and there is an historical marker marking this site as Valenzuela. Galveztown was established on the banks of Bayou Manchac where it joins the Amite River, and as a buffer to the British who controlled the area north of Bayou Manchac. Barataria was established on the west side of the Mississippi River below New Orleans and Terre-aux Boeufs on the east bank. The settlements at Galveztown and Barataria both failed because of continuous flooding. The Islenos in St. Bernard parish quickly adapted to the area and increased their income by fishing and trapping in addition to farming. The Islenos in Ascension and Assumption parishes settled down to farming, the main crop being sugar cane. Many Canary Islanders' descendants today still live in the Bayou Lafourche and St. Bernard areas. The land grants were supposed to consist of bayou front of approximately 576 feet, and a depth of 7,680 feet, but the grants were irregular in size, due to the curving of the bayou. The government supplied them well, sometimes lavishly. Some of them received a cart and two horses valued at 125 pesos. One example, a family numbering seven persons received: 150 ounces of cloth, 30 ounces of printed linen, 4 hats, 10 plain and 4 silk handkerchiefs, 6 pairs of stockings, 16 ounces of cloth of white thread, 4 needle cases, 8 thimbles, 1,000 pins and needles, 3 fusils (flintlocks), 3 pounds of gunpowder, 4 shaving razors, 5 axes, 8 hoes, 2 shovels, 10 ounces of Limburg cloth, 2 1/2 pesos in coin per person, 20 pesos for the purchase of a mare, and a number of other items. The government built the colonists at Galveztown wooden houses, 16 x 32 feet, with a gallery on one side. Sugar cane was brought from the Canary Islands and introduced into Louisiana agriculture. Canary islanders have labored in the sugar industry continuously and have had a large part in making the industry the success it is today. Islenos have distinguished themselves in the War of 1812, Civil War, and WWI and WWII. Although, many remained clannish and aloof from outsiders until the early 1900's, most have since valued education and many have served honorably in governmental positions. All Isleno descendants should be proud of their unique heritage. Sources: Canary Island Migration by Sidney Villere and
Submitted by Johanna de Soto
For more information, contact Los Ilenos De Galvez, idgas@juno.com |
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Welcome to the World Genweb pages representing the Canary Islands. The purpose of these pages is to assist everyone who is researching their Canary Island ancestors. It will be the objective of The Genealogy of the Canary Islands to present information which will assist you in tracking down that elusive Canary Island ancestor. In the coming weeks ahead, we hope to bring you valuable genealogical, historical and cultural information relative to the Canary Islands. |
We urge everyone who wishes to post a query relative to their Canary
Island ancestors to do so here. The information contained in these queries will
then be posted in the Query Page and various indexes to assist others and you
make family connections with each other. My e-mail address is pr_genweb@yahoo.com, My ICQ Address is #5583929 |
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Researching in Texas |
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March 9th, 1731 marks the Arrival of Canary Islanders to San Antonio, Texas A total of fifty-six persons arrived directly from the Canary Islands 269 years ago, and formed the nucleus of the villa of San Fernando de Bexar, present day San Antonio. Under the leadership of Juan Leal Goras, the first regularly organized civil government in Texas was formed. Thank you to to John O. Leal, retired Bexar County Archivist for sending a reminder. |
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American
Presidents Here's a question for the genealogists? What did President George Bush, born 1924, find so intriguing about former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's middle name? The fact is they were
related - - - de la Noye = Delano |
Francis
Cooke and Hester De La Noye had a child in Leiden, Holland and all three
sailed on the Mayflower in 1620. Their daughter, Jane, was Mr. Bush's
"grandmother" eleven times removed.
Hester's sister Marie de La Noye, also had a child in Leiden - a son named Philippe. The name De La Noye became Delano and Philippe's grandchild, seven generations removed was President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The Family Tree, Feb/Mar 2000, Vol. X, #1 |
| You could be related to an American president. Find out, click on: http://www.rootsweb.com to see the family trees of the first nine presidents, as well as those of Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Harrison and Jimmy Carter. The five presidents most Americans likely to be related to (the site says) are Richard Nixon, Franklin Roosevelt, Millard Fillmore, Rutherford Hayes and William Howard Taft. USA Today, 2-21-00 Submitted by Shirley Pitchforth |
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Edinburg George Gause, director of Special Collection at the University of
Texas, Pan American Library, Edinburg, TX writes that they have in their
center two (2) copies of the new and important book, 246 Testamentos de Monterrey: en
resumen genealógico (1999) by Lilia E. Villanueva de Cavazos. |
San Antonio Members of Los Bexareños
of San Antonio operate Casa Navarro,
located in downtown San Antonio, 228 S. Laredo Street. Open on Wednesdays from noon until 4:00 pm and on Saturdays from 10:00 am until 2:00 pm. visitors are individually helped in personal their research by
volunteers. There are copies of Los Bejarenos Genealogical Registers available for review as well as other genealogy materials.Books on genealogy and history are also available for sale. For more information: Contact:
Josie Trevino Trevino, <josiett3@aol.com> |
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Kudos, well done! Feb 5, 2000 Hands Across the Border Flag and Tree Planting Ceremony was held in Corpus Christy, Texas to commemorate 152 years of peace after the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe. The Spanish American Genealogical Association (SAGA) and Descendants of Mexican War Veterans (DMWV) Sent by President Mira Smithwick. |
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The Mapping of the Entradas |
American cartographic tradition in meso America with those of the Spaniards who arrived in 1519. Buisseret concludes that there was considerable syncretism, or mixing of traditions - a welcome tribute to the indigenous peoples of the region. On April 1, 2000 the Texas Map Society will hold its spring meeting. Hosted by the San Jacinto Museum of History will feature six presentations on historical maps. Dr. John Hébert, Chief of the Geography and Map division of the Library of Congress is scheduled to make a presentation. |
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Chisholm Trail Project
The Chisholm Trail is somewhat controversial in that there is no evidence that it was called by that name, in Texas, during its heyday (1866-1882). During that period, several million cattle were driven northward to the railhead in Kansas from as far away as south Texas. Historians have demonstrated that the trail helped the Texas economy that had been decimated by the Civil War. At the request of |
the Fort Worth Convention and Visitors Bureau, a brochure has been prepared by UTA graduate students in Public History. For information on the brochure or spring meeting contact the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography. Email < center@library.uta.edu> The University of Texas at Arlington, Box 19497,
Arlington, Texas, 76019-0497. |
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MAPS: Mexican
researchers, this is a fantastic resource, sent by John Schmal |
| Searching
for a town? Finding a town or where it is located on a map: http://www.com/hpi/us50/index.html Search for an address or email address for an individual at: http://people.yahoo.com Sent
by
George Gause, |
USGS - National Mapping Information - Geographic Names Information System, United States and Territories http://mapping.usgs.gov/ www/gnis/gnisform.html Enter the name of the cemetery you are looking for, the state and county and this link will tell you the GPS location and also draw you a map of where it is located. You can also locate churches, and schools and other locations. Cemetery Records Online http://interment.net/data/ |
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Black Hebrews
Thirty years have passed since the original 39 Black American, led by a Chicago bus driver Ben Ammi, arrived in the Holy Land. Today they number 2,500. They call themselves the Hebrew Israelites, but are known in Israel as the Black Hebrews. The movement's founder, Ammi, believed that Black American descended from the Israelite tribe of Judah. He said they migrated to West Africa after the destruction of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem in AD 70 and were eventually brought as slaves to the United States. |
Acceptance by the government has been slow in
coming. In 1990, the community's members were given permission to stay
indefinitely, providing immigration of more blacks from the United States
stopped. Polygamy is permitted, residents are vegetarians, smoking is
discouraged. Many say they have no desire to go back to the United States. The
children born in Israel speak Hebrew fluently with an American accent. Some have
gone to college. Israeli citizenship has not been given.
Associated Press via Los Angeles Times, 2-13-00 La Voz de Aztlan,
2-9-00 |
| The 23rd honoree in the USPS - Black Heritage Series is Patricia Roberts Harris (1924-1985), educator, lawyer, activist, diplomat, and advisor to presidents. | Call 1 800 STAMP-24 for the USA Philatelic catalog featuring the Black Heritage Series, or visit www.stamponline.com |
| Languages
Japan spends billions of dollars each year on studying English, but the
results have been disappointing. Japanese study English for six years
before they even graduate from high school. However, Japan ranks 18th among 21
Asian countries in average scores on the Test of English as a Foreign
language. Orange County Register, 2-11-00 |
Bilingual Internet Guide for Hispanics Yupi.com, a leading Spanish-language Internet portal has prepared a bilingual Internet guide for Hispanics. The 94-page, bilingual guide was designed to help Internet users optimize their web experience. Though much of the information is general and useful to any user, the guide is geared to Latinos, who some studies say are logging on to the Internet at a faster rate than the mainstream American public. For more information, visit http://www.yupi.com Hispanic, January/February 2000 |
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Dr. Gomez Pereira, The Father of Modern Medicine Dr. Gomez Pereira, M.D. received his
Bachelor Degree in Medicine and Philosophy at Salamanca, Spain. in the 1500s. |
Latino
Internet Links in Spanish:
www.mexico.web.com.mx/mexicot/shtml Submitted by Emily Ortiz
Wichmann, |
| Jaime
Gomez, M.D. President, 5th Centenary of Gomez Pereira 4101 NW 60th Circle Boca Raton, FL, 33496, USA |
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Thanks to Gabriel Gutierrez
for the following article on the roots of the Maldonado name.
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| Searching
France Online English introduction at: http://www.es-conseil.fr/pramona/records.htm French introduction at: http://www.es-conseil.fr/pramona/depouill.htm Numerous family reunions will be organized in the year 2002, in connection with Mobile's celebration of the Tercentennial of its founding in 1702 as the first capital of French Louisiana. |
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Library of Congress, Hispanic Division, Submitted by Sharleen Maldonado http://lcweb.loc.gov/rr/hispanic/hispdiv.html In 1927, Archer M. Huntington, founder of the Hispanic Society of America, established an endowment fund in his name, the first of several important donations for Hispanic studies at the Library of Congress. The second "area studies division" to be founded by the Library, in 1939 the Hispanic Division was established to acquire Luso-Hispanic materials in a systematic fashion. In that same year, the division's reading room, The "Hispanic Society Reading Room," named after the Hispanic Society of New York, was inaugurated to service the Library's growing Luso-Hispanic collections. Although primary emphasis has always been the acquisition of current materials and government documents the Division has also acquired a rich collection of rare items. The Division was instrumental in acquiring significant gifts of manuscripts, music scores, and posters, photographs and films. It made efforts to develop special groups of materials such as collecting folk music from San Antonio, Texas, and pioneering the recording of Hispanic poets. Through the generosity of countless donors, the Library of Congress has amassed the world's finest collection on the history and culture of Latin America, Iberia, and the Caribbean. Many of the rare items were received as gifts, such as rare books donated by Lessing J. Rosenwald and manuscripts given by Hans P. Kraus. Gifts and bequests have enabled the Hispanic Division to purchase materials in various formats, in addition to books and periodicals, and to record authors for the Archive of Hispanic Literature on Tape. Further information on the various Luso-Hispanic collections can be found in the Hispanic Reading Room. Lewis U. Hanke, the first chief of the Hispanic Division, brought with him from Harvard University the Handbook of Latin American Studies (established in 1935), which since 1939 has been prepared at the Hispanic Division. The Handbook reflects the breadth and depth of the Library's Hispanic collections. The Fundación MAPFRE América of Spain, with the assistance from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, financed the retrospective conversion of 53 volumes of the Handbook to CD-ROM format. In remembrance of their father, the children of Lewis Hanke donated funds to the Hispanic Division to place the entire automated database of the Handbook on the World Wide Web. Return to Table of Contents |
| The Oceanside, California City library was awarded a $50,000 grant to establish the Informate project. It is free computer classes to the Spanish-speaking community, instructing them how to use the latest information technology, including Internet and other resources on the new library catalog. Librarian, |
Jose Aponte, has initiated many programs for the Latino community and works
closed with the Oceanside Department of Education on many youth and community
oriented projects. Submitted by Emily Ortiz Wichmann, Oceanside Board of Education |
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The North Carolina State Library has begun a three year initiative to provide improved services to Spanish speakers at libraries throughout the state. The Hispanic population has more than doubled in North Carolina over the past seven years. Current estimates range between 200,000 and 315,000. |
In Forsyth County, the population has grown over 1000% in the last decade from under 2,000, only a few hundred of whom were recent immigrants, to around 25,000, most of whom are recent immigrants from Mexico. Submitted to REFORMANET by Jon Sundrell, 2-7-00 |
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Priest Offers Home to Migrants
One of the larger Episcopal congregations in the nation is the Chapel of St. Martha and St Mary of Bethany in Seattle, Washington. Her 1,200 parishioners are mostly Hispanic men who come and go. The men come from 21 countries. Most have families in Latin American, and they send their earnings home. "They'll get contracts on the boats, then they'll go do orchard crops," says the Rev. Susan O'Shea. "Sometimes they'll work construction; sometimes they do second-shift restaurant work." |
The men are served by the effort
of Rev. O'Shea and many volunteers. Efren Ignacio Victor Guerrero
Villafuerte, 'Nacho' serves as a lay leader at the chapel As
O'Shea explains, he "looks like hell. He
doesn't speak English. He can hardly speak Spanish. but, by
God, the people follow him."
In addition to sending money to their families in Latin America, O'Shea says, "they give me money. They'll come off those fishing boats and tithe. How many people have folks living in the brushes that tithe?" |
| Fervent
prayers rise from the patron outside St. Isidore church in Los Alamitos, Orange
County, California. the worshipers seek divine aid in reopening the
little church built by Mexican field workers in 1922
on Orange county land donated by their patron. Until 1960, when suburban
growth prompted construction of a larger, more modern church, St. Isidore
served all Catholics in the area. Last September the diocese, citing a
lack of Spanish-speaking priests and the old building's vulnerability to
earthquakes, closed St. Isidore and directed its 200-member Hispanic
congregation to join the newer, mostly Anglo parish. The St. Isidore
parishioners, refusing to abandon their spiritual home, meet outside to
worship every Sunday. "I'm proud that my ancestors built this
church," says Leticia Aguilar. "Taking it from us is stealing
from the poor to give to the rich."
Preservation, January/February 2000, Vol. 52, #1. pg. 11 by Joyce Gregory Wyels |
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Indigenous:
Tribal Land Deal Disputes
Small bands of Shoshone Indians once ranged across a vast territory that stretched from the Snake river in Idaho, through most of Nevada to the vicinity of the present-day Joshua tree National Park in California. In 1979, the government agreed to pay the tribe $26.1 million for a portion of the land - as little as 15 cents per acre. When the Shoshones shunned the money, it was place in the U.S. Treasury, where it has grown to $116 million. Payment would amount to $20,000 to every Shoshone man, woman and
child. In the eyes of the government, payment would end the tribe's
claims to its historic homeland. |
The U.S. Congress and President
Harry S. Truman established the Indian Claims Commission in 1946.
The panel and a court that followed it heard more than 600 cases and
paid out nearly $1.5 billion. Some tribal members used their money on perishable items, but others
pooled their resources and invested in economic development.
Several Apache tribes received payments totaling $32 million in the 1960s and 1970s. Much of the money went to help establish logging, beef cattle and tourism operations, including a ski resort, on the Mescalero reservation in south-central New Mexico. Today the largest single unsettled case involves the Sioux. The tribe's eight nations have $538 million in claims money held in trust by the Interior Department. Despite the tribe's size and far-flung nature, it has remained the most steadfast in opposing distribution of the money. The Sioux people's disdain for the U.S. government has been legendary - dating to the massacre of at least 150 men, women and children by the 7th Cavalry in 1890. Los Angeles Times, 2-9-00 |
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Proving California Indigenous Lines |
| The
massive profits generated by California's Indian casinos are prompting
bitter infighting among Native Americans over who qualifies as a member
of the tribe. About 250,000 people living in California claim Native
American blood, according to the California Research Bureau, an arm of
the State Library. About 18,000 Indians belong to the 41 tribes that now
operate or have recently run casinos, according to the state's figures.
Most tribes determine membership by the applicant's percentage of tribal blood: one-quarter, one-eighth or even less in some cases. But blood ties do not necessarily guarantee admission now. Some tribes exclude certain blood relatives if they have not participated in tribal affairs. |
The traditional
system for gaining membership was based on interviews of by
tribal elders of those that claimed Pechanga ties. However that
was changed in 1979 to a
formalized process in which applicants had to prove blood ties - no
matter how thin - to Pechanga ancestors identified either in the 1940
census or through earlier records.
Tribal Chairman Mark Macarro said the change was due to being inundated with membership applications, from an average of 15-30 yearly applications prior to the opening of their casino to 430 applications in 1997. The tribe decided to suspend acceptance of additional members. after the tribe reached 800 memberships. |
| Mark
Macarro's cousin Arlene Macarro, who is one-quarter Pechanga Indian,
says she didn't learn she had lost her tribal membershiip until she
traveled two years ago to her grandfather's grave and was denied entry
by security guards. Given the increasing revenues for the Pechanga
Indians, Arlene Macarro says, tribal leaders are selfishly blocking her
readmission.
Kathy Lewis, a member of the Table Mountain tribe near Fresno and granddaughter of a former tribal chairman was also dropped from a reconstituted membership. The 61 adult who are considered members of the Table Mountain tribe receive more than $15,000 a month as well as other lucrative perks from Casino earnings.
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In 1991
the 44-members Cabazon Indiana tribe, owners of Fantasy Springs Casino
near Palm Springs, barred two members from voting in tribal elections or
receiving any tribal financial benefits. The two, including a former
chairman, had accused the the tribe's management of financial misconduct
and were ordered before a tribal court, where they were stripped of
their tribal rights.
The disputes over recognition of Indians extend to entire groups. About 75,000 Native Americans living in California claim lineage from about 80 tribes that are not formally recognized by the United States. Almost 50 of those tribes are seeking federal recognition, including about 20 that requested it after a 1988 federal law paved the way for reservation gaming, according to the state's Research Bureau. Extracts from article by Tom Gorman and Dan
Morain, Los Angeles Times, 2-28-00 |
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Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival AICLS Humanities Networks, Winter 2000, Vol. 22, # 1 California Council for the Humanities, www.calhum.org |
| California,
one of the most linguistically diverse places in the world, is rapidly
losing it's rich heritage of indigenous languages. Of
at least 98 languages originally spoken in what are now the political
confines of this state, 45 (or more) have no fluent speakers left at
all, 17 have only one to five speakers left, and the remaining 36 have
only elderly speakers. Not a single California Indian language is
being used now as the language of daily communication. The elders do not
in actuality speak their language - rather, they remember how to speak
their language.
There is, however, a rapidly growing movement among California Indians to save their languages: to learn them as second languages, and to develop programs to bring their languages back into daily use. The intense dedication that they have to their cause brings new promise to the future of California Indian languages. |
AICLS's
program is to halt the immediate loss of native language by pairing
fluent master speakers with apprentice learners. Now in its fourth year,
the program has supported one or more teams from each of 15 languages:
Chemehuevi, Hupa, Karuk, Mojave,Northern Pomo, Patwin, Paiute,Tubatulabal, Washo, Western Mono, Wintu, Wukchumni, Yowlumne, Yurok, and Kiliwa (from Baja California). The program has been quite successful, producing a number of young fluent speakers, as well as functioning to implement increased usage of the languages by the native speakers. It has also served as a model for tribes elsewhere in the United States. "Keeping Native American languages alive is not so much a matter of preserving the past, but preserving a future." Buffy Sainte-Marie. |
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Meteorite A group of American Indians says a 16-ton meteorite (about the size of a small car) that will be the main attraction at the Museum of Natural History's new planetarium in New York is a holy tribal object and should be returned to Oregon. The meteorite hit Earth more than 10,000 years ago and was moved by glacial ice to a hillside in Oregon. the Clackamas tribe adopted it as a sacred object, and the rain water that collected in its deep craters was prized for its holiness. |
The Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, which includes the Clackamas submitted a claim for the meteorite to the museum last September, under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. "Songs given to us by the meteorite are still sung today," said Ryan Heavy Head, consultant to the Grand Ronde. Orange County Register, 2-19-00 |
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John Schmal suggests a good book which discusses the Indians taking on the Spanish surnames after they are baptized is to be found on pages 117 to 130 and other pages in James Lockhart's The Nahuas After the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries. It was published in 1992. |
| LOS ANGELES (February 9, 2000) -- Exciting new evidence that may point to the origins of Aztlan has been found. The Mexican Immigrant Monument Committee, that proposes to construct a large monument to honor immigrants from Mexico in the form of an Aztec pyramid "a la" Statue of Liberty, have uncovered an old and forgotten glyph map called "La Siguenza" that depicts the track of the Mexicas from Aztlan to Tenochtitlan. The manuscript is similar to "La Tira de La Peregrinacion" at the Museo Nacional de Antropologia but shows different details and additional information. |
The glyph clearly shows Aztlan but only as the
second station where a group of tribes originated. There is no mistake in
reading the glyph that the true origin of the tribes before they settle Aztlan
was from a land mass (continent?) surrounded by water. The glyph shows an
erupting volcano in the middle of the island (continent) that may have doomed
the ancient land of our ancestors. Could this land mass in the middle of the
body of water be the yet "unproven" continent of Atlantis?
http://www.aztlan.net La Voz de Aztlan, 2-9-00 |
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Aztlanahuac Project is dedicated to collecting and documenting the origins and migrations of the peoples of the Americas, with specific interest in Anahuac (Northern part of the Americas). The project hopes to complete: |
Support projects are:
(4) Art exhibit March 2000, sponsored by the Los Angeles Co. Museum of Art. (5) October conference at the SmithsonianI (6) Mural sponsored by the Los Angeles Indigenous People's Alliance. (7) MusicCD: (8) Interviews into a spoken word CD. In collaboration with CALACA PRESS, a Raza owned company out of San Diego, Calif. (9) Educational CD for classroom use (10) Interactive photo and multimedia exhibit to tour the country, including, art, photography and audio. http://www.aztlan.net La Voz de Aztlan, |
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| Indian Scout Books, Native
American Genealogy Books and CDs. HC63 Box 81, Monticello, Utah 84535, Jharvey@SanJuan.net Bedgingt@mercury2.garlic.com |
| Edward S. Curtis devoted 30 years of his professional life to documenting American Indians. He lived among 87 western tribes, photographing, recording music and cataloging, accompanied by interpreter and transcribers, but sometimes traveling alone. He produced a classic 20-volume ethnographic work, The North American Indian. Research Reports, Smithsonian No.97, S '99 |
| Collecting Native America, 1870-1960 edited by Shepard Krech III and Barbara A. Hail examine the motivations, intentions and actions of 11 collectors who devoted parts of their lives and fortunes to acquiring American Indian objects and founding museums. A recent publication of the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1999, $45. |
| In
1879, the Smithsonian became home to an extraordinarily rich collection
of Native American paintings and artifacts that had been created and
assembled by an early American visionary named George Catlin. Housed in
the National Museum of American Art and the National Museum of Natural
History, this collection of 445
paintings from his Indian Gallery, selected artifacts and a
notebook are currently the subject of several extensive research
projects that will result in a new Catlin exhibition in the National
Museum of American Art's Renwick Gallery in 2001, Washington D.C. A book
and a Web site also are being planned.
Catlin was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., in 1796. Later describing his obsessive lifetime devotion to documenting American Indians, Catlin wrote in Letters and Notes on the Manners, Customs and Condition of the North American Indians . . . . . " The history and customs of such a people, preserved by pictorial illustrations, are themes worthy of the lifetime of one man, and nothing short of the loss of my life, shall prevent me from visiting their country and of becoming their historian." |
Catlin
commenced painting Seneca and other Native Americans in western New York
in the spring of 1826, traveled west of the Mississippi with William
Clark, the former co-leader of the Lewis and Clark expedition, visiting
Iowa, Missouri, Sioux, Omaha, Sauk and Fox tribes. In 1832 he visited
tribes of the upper Missouri as a guest of the American Fur Company and
started painting landscapes and scenes of villages and tribal life. In
1833, Catlin begun exhibiting his paintings and artifacts. He sometimes
employed live Indians to give demonstrations in an exhibition hall..
Catlin died in New Jersey in 1872.
Abstract from article by Brenda Kean Tabor
in the Research Reports, a publication of the Smithsonian
Institution, No. 99, winter 2000 |
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Medieval Documents Hill Monastic Manuscript Library in Minnesota Since 1965 Benedictine monks of St. John's Abbey in Minnesota have undertaken the monumental task of microfilming every document written before the invention of the printing. Their goal is to photograph and catalog every page of every text written in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa. In the last 35 years, they have photographed more than 25 million pages, the most comprehensive collection of medieval texts on microfilm. The abbey monks have directed the filming of about 90,000 volumes - most written before 1600 - in Spain, Germany, Ethiopia, Malta, Switzerland and Portugal. |
One researcher collecting manuscripts on medieval
Malta found an account of a woman so fed up with her husband that she journeyed
three days by boat and donkey to denounce him to the Grand Inquisitors - for the
alleged offense of eating meat on Fridays. (He was let off the hook with a
warning.)
Abstract from article by Stephanie Simon, Los Angeles Times, 2-14-00 |
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Synagogues This volume, though slim, surveys the realm of synagogues down through the ages and across the globe. Gruber's worldwide tour begins with the building's ancient origins in the Holy Land and shows the synagogues accommodation to place, period, and politics.. Extraordinary variations in location, age, architectural style, interior design, size, contextual prominence are revealed in text and photos. |
Included
are the medieval structures, even hidden, in the Jewish quarters of
cities like Prague and Cordoba., the five surviving synagogues of the
16th century Venice ghetto peopled partly by refugees expelled from
Spain, and Caribbean synagogues telling their tales of displacement and
accommodation.
Preservation, January/February 2000,
Vol. 52, #1, pg. 89 |
