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Thomas Jefferson on the Banking Institutions Quick Update of LULAC National Convention What
Happened to the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence? The Old Ways, Wanda Daisy Garcia Fights for Historic Accuracy Hispanics Breaking Barriers Part XIX Janet Murguia: A Wise Latina Changing Faiths: Latinos and the Transformation of the American Revolution Latino Youth at Ease in Two Cultures The
Tejanos: Where We Came From
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| I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that |
Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five signers were captured by the British as traitors, and tortured before they died. Twelve had their homes ransacked and burned. Two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary Army; another had two sons captured. Nine of the 56 fought and died from wounds or hardships of the Revolutionary War. They signed and they pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. They signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured. Remember: freedom is never free! Sent by Alfonso Rodriguez alfonso2r@yahoo.com
Census Bureau Reports Minority Business Ownership Increasing at More Than Twice the National Rate Farmworkers
Get Aid From U.S., Stephen Colbert Map of the migration patterns of people within US.
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will grow up around the banks
will deprive the people of all property -
until their children wake-up -
homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. Thomas Jefferson 1802 Sent by Dr. Carlos Muñoz, Jr. http://ethnicstudies.berkeley. edu/faculty/munoz/ |
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| EDITOR: The NCLR conference in
San Antonio was wonderful. Attendance at the Conference and
Family Expo was an overwhelming
42,000. Our Medal of Honor Booth was full of touching, exciting,
emotional, beautiful experiences. I will be sharing them in the
months ahead.
I really enjoyed the fruits of doing family
research. Margaret Garza is a found distant
prima. She is the first cousin of Tom Saenz, a
Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research Board
member. It was through family research that we found that WE
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More good news, the Hispanic Medal of Honor Society has a new website . . www.hispanicmedalofhonor.org The Hispanic Medal of Honor Society is dedicated to promoting an awareness of the patriotism, gratitude, and loyalty which Hispanic Americans have for the United States. We honor the sacrifices of all who serve in the US Military Armed Forces to protect the freedom that we Americans enjoy. The Hispanic Medal of Honor Society focuses on the stories of sacrifice of Latinos. We believe it is necessary to give visibility to their stories, because the general public is just not aware of that fact that Latinos have been contributing to the strength and safety of the United States since it's foundation.
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THE OLD WAYS
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The other day, I came across an article written by
Dan Parker [2]about
Patrick Carroll’s book “The Felix Longoria’s Wake”.
In the article, Parker interviewed Dr. Carroll about his
investigation of the Pvt. Felix Z. Longoria incident. The incident
occurred when Tom Kennedy the owner of the Rice Funeral Hone in Three
Rivers Texas refused to let the family of Pvt. Felix Longoria use the
funeral home to hold the wake. Pvt.
Longoria was a hero who lost his life in defense of his country at the
battle of the Luzon in the Philippines. U.S. Senator Lyndon B. Johnson
intervened and Pvt. Longoria was buried in Arlington Military Cemetery
with full honors. Carroll interviewed more that 75 people including
Longoria’s widow, Beatrice Moreno de Longoria, Jane Kennedy, the wife
of the late Tom Kennedy, Jack Montgomery former mayor of Three Rivers.
Gov John Connally, Horace Busby, staff member of Lyndon Johnson when
Johnson was a U.S. Senator.[3]
Dr. Carroll sifted through miles of documents to ensure historical
accuracy. I was at a crossroads in my life when I found
Parker’s article this week. I
was experiencing a spiritual crisis and questioning the merits of
continuing with my father’s work.
Compounding this crisis were the activities of a group of
individuals from Three Rivers who made it their mission to cast doubts
about what happened between Tom Kennedy and the Longoria family.
Despite the preponderance of documentation and the notarized
testimonies supporting this history, the Three Rivers crew persist in believing that this was not a fact.
I could not understand where they were coming from. In April 2010 Santiago Hernandez invited me to the dedication of the marker in Three Rivers, Texas. Also, he forwarded me a link to a letter to the editor appearing in the Progress written by Patty Reagan:
Three Rivers is a fully
integrated, progressive, small town where love and equal opportunity
abound. We endeavor to adhere to our nation's*mantra, E Pluribus Unum,
meaning *from many one.* This means we are not Hispanics and Anglos,
we are all Americans. All striving together for peace and harmony!
Outside harassment against Three Rivers is not in keeping with this
national ideal.[5] I left Austin, Texas, for Three Rivers determined
to find answers to my questions. Once I arrived in Three Rivers, I got
to meet all the players. Ms. Reagan introduced me to an elderly woman,
Mrs. Lee. Reagan
asserted that my mother Wanda who lived in Corpus Christi was sitting
for Mrs. Lee who lived in Three Rivers.
I never met Mrs. Lee before. John Valadez, PBS producer introduced me to a
Richard Hudson. Hudson is a resident of Fort Worth, Texas and came to
Three Rivers just for the ceremony. Later Valadez told me that Hudson
made disproving the Felix Longoria Incident the subject of his
Master’s thesis. Hudson’s and the Three Rivers crew’s main
contention is that the Longoria incident is not based on facts: In May of 2006, the Live
Oak County Historical Committee Chairman and Hudson claimed to have proof that this was not an
accurate representation of history.
When I questioned Hudson about his “evidence”, he evaded the
issue. At last check, no
professor has signed his thesis. Later I went to Hudson’s “historical” web
site that described Susan
Kennedy-Zamzow ‘s (Kennedy’s daughter) version of an incident
occurring in San Antonio school to her grandson.
There were also inaccurate and slanderous representations about
my father. So, I emailed
Hudson and questioned his statements.
In one of his emails to me, Hudson felt that” Kennedy had done
the right thing.” [7]
…Hmmm! I found out prior
to the ceremony Hudson drove from Fort Worth just to show father
Zilinski, a local priest in Three Rivers his “evidence”. After
conversation with Hudson, the priest did not show up at the ceremony to
give the benediction. Santiago
Hernandez reported Father Richard to the bishop and he was reprimanded
for not performing his pastoral duties.[8] Hudson, Reagan and Zamzow
(Kennedy’s daughter) have shown up at the State Board of Education
Hearings trying to discredit my father.
I guess LBJ was too big of a fish to fry so they dropped him from
their vendetta. I heard from
a Ms. Noyola, a teacher who attended the State Board of Education
Hearings that a woman had gone up to the group of students to give her
side of the Three Rivers incident. Of course the students did not
believe her. I believe that the worse form of racism is to
discount the reality of others.
It is arrogant to discount the experiences of exclusion, equal
access to jobs, housing, theatres, and restaurants, simply because these
experiences are not part of their reality. What could the motive be of
the crew from Three Rivers, Texas? Perhaps Dr. Carroll’s quote might
shed some light on their motivation, “To this day, these individuals
refuse to validate these charges against Kennedy.
They fear in doing so that they will betray the broader cause of
Mexican American Civil Rights that the Longoria controversy stimulated
with the community.” [9] [1]
George Groh in his first phone conversation with Kennedy, Carl
Allsup, The American G.I.Forum Origins and Evolution, pp.81-97.
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RESOLUTION PROPOSED BY THE MODESTO CHAPTER AND THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA AMERICAN GI FORUM UNANIMOUSLY PASSED . . . WRITTEN AND CARRIED BY FRANCISCO ALVAREZ |
Whereas, it is a fact Dr. Hector P. Garcia was the catalyst in exposing to the nation the disgraceful racist attitudes against Mexican Americans in Texas. In 1949, Pvt. Longoria’s body was being returned to his family three years after his death. Pvt. was a hero and died at the battle of the Luzon in the Philippines. Despite Pvt. Longoria’s heroism, Thomas Rice choose not to anger the Anglo American’s community by denying the Longoria family the use of the funeral home. "According to a published statement by Thomas Kennedy the director of the funeral home, Beatrice had arranged with him to accept the remains of her husband two months before her trip to Three Rivers in January of 1949. Thomas Kennedy however refused to allow her husband's body in the chapel, because "the whites wouldn’t like it." Whereas, Ms. Sara Posas contacted Dr. Hector Garcia. In turn, Dr. Hector contacted Senator Lyndon Johnson and other elected officials. The AP picked up the story and the Corpus Christi Caller, the New York Times and the Dallas Morning News investigated the story. Walter Winchell commented on this and said on his radio program “The State of Texas looks mighty small tonight.” Beatrice and her husband Felix Longoria a war hero, were the victims of discrimination by Mr. Thomas Kennedy and would have remained victims but for the courage and dogged determination by Dr. Garcia, Chairman of the American G.I. Forum. Whereas, Through Dr. Garcia’s efforts, U.S. Senator Lyndon Johnson intervened and Pvt. Longoria was given a hero’s burial in Arlington National Cemetery, in Arlington VA. Dr. Hector Garcia, his family and his associates endured much pain and harassment because of Dr. Hector’s involvement to obtain justice for the Longoria family. Dr. Garcia was called vile names and threats made against him, but he never wavered in defense of the human rights of Mexican Americans and Pvt. Felix Longoria in particular. After an investigation the Good Neighbor Commission, found Tom Kennedy guilty of racism. In addition, Texas Legislative Committee hearing was held in Three Rivers and it was Dr. Garcia that gave the correct history of events to the legislative committee. The legislative committee, however, voted three to one in favor of Mr. Kennedy and the funeral home. Then another member refused to put his name on the report. One of the members wrote a lengthy minority report in favor of Longoria and Beatrice. A State Senator condemned the report, calling it a "tragic blot on the democracy of Texas and the United States". The Texas House of Representatives did not accept the report and the matter was given no further legislative attention. Be it resolved, that Dr. Garcia, recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, from this point on is the hero of the Three Rivers incident of discrimination; that the American G.I. Forum of the U.S. commend Dr. Hector P. Garcia for his leadership, courage and service to the Nation. |
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HISPANICS
BREAKING
BARRIERS Part
XIX
The 19th article in the series “Hispanics Breaking Barriers” focuses
on contributions of Hispanic
leadership in Tammye H.
Treviño: Administrator, Housing & Community Facilities
Programs, USDA Rural Development Agency
Tammye H. Treviño,
former Chief Executive Officer of Families United to Utilize Regional
Opportunities, Inc. (FUTURO), a Tammye H. Treviño
was born and raised in Pearsall, a small rural town in
south central Tammye H. Treviño
received a Bachelor’s Degree in Communications from the From 1998 to 1999, Treviño
served as the Economic Development Director for La Salle County, Texas,
where her accomplishments included the conversion of a 47-county, South
Texas think tank into a non-profit organization to work on regional
economic development and other issues. Since 1999, Treviño
served as CEO for FUTURO, at As CEO, Treviño
implemented a ten-year plan to revitalize a 6,000 square-mile region in
south Treviño is a certified
Economic Development Finance Professional as well as a certified Housing
Development Finance Professional. She has worked with USDA Rural
Development programs. This USDA Rural Development program mission is to
increase economic opportunity and improve the quality of life for rural
residents. Rural Development fosters growth in homeownership, finances
business development and supports the creation of critical community and
technology infrastructure. Further information on rural programs is
available at a local USDA Rural Development office or by visiting USDA
Rural Development's web site at www.rurdev.usda.gov
. Tom Vilsack, the
Agriculture Secretary stated: "Tammye Treviño is a talented,
hardworking leader who is a strong advocate for enhancing the quality of
life and economic opportunities available in rural areas," He
further stated. "For more than two decades she has worked
tirelessly on behalf of residents in South Texas and I know she will do
great things for the people of rural Treviño brings over 25
years of experience in community development to the Department. She
would be the first
Georgina Verdugo
received her Bachelor’s Degree from the From 1994 to 2002,
Verdugo practiced law in From 2002 to 2003,
Verdugo served as Assistant United States Attorney in the U.S.
Attorney’s Office in From 2004 to 2008,
Verdugo served as Associate Counsel for the Verdugo has written
articles and publications about civil rights, and made numerous
appearances on CNN, C-SPAN, Univision, and other media outlets.
She was also a member of the American Bar Association Commission on
Public Education, the Individual Rights and Responsibilities Council,
the Standing Committee on Gun Violence, and Chair of the Thurgood
Marshall Award Committee. As the first woman
appointed to this position, she oversees the enforcement of Federal
civil rights laws that protect against discrimination, race, religion,
national origin, disability, age, and gender in health care and social
service programs. "Ms. Verdugo is
joining OCR at a critical juncture given the President’s commitment to
civil rights enforcement and to privacy and security protections in
health information technology. Her 25 year distinguished record of
service both in government and in the non-profit and private sector will
be an asset to these efforts,” stated Health and Human Services
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “I am honored and
privileged to have this opportunity to carry out the President’s and
Secretary’s priorities at OCR, I look forward to coordinating OCR’s
efforts within HHS and across Federal agencies, and working with
consumers and providers to effectuate civil rights and privacy
rights,” stated Verdugo. .
Carmen Milagros Ortiz
former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Economic Crimes Unit of the United
States Attorney’s Office in Carmen Milagros Ortiz
was born in Carmen Milagros Ortiz
graduated from At an early age, Carmen
M. Ortiz was drawn to the showmanship of the courtroom. Ortiz began her
legal career as a trial attorney in the Honors Program at the U.S.
Department of Justice's Criminal Division. “At In 1990, she was working
at the Center for Criminal Justice at 1991-94 she worked with
her late husband at Morisi and Associates in In her first in-depth
interview since being sworn in, she tells the “Patriot Ledger” how
TV courtroom dramas helped inspire her law career. She also said on how
her toughest cases shaped her view of law enforcement. She was excited
when she heard of her nomination directly from the late Massachusetts
Senator, Edward Kennedy. Being the first female
and Hispanic U.S. Attorney leaves her with a tremendous amount of pride
and accomplishment. “I think it’s really important for the leaders
in government or private industry to truly represent the different
nationalities and groups that form a community and a state.”
Dr. Frank O. Mora Dr. Frank O. Mora presently serves as Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs. politics to senior
military and civilian officers. Dr. Mora also taught and lectured
at several government and civilian academic institutions in the US and
abroad, including the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security and
Cooperation (WHINSEC), the Universidad Catolica of Peru, Florida
International University, the U.S. Air Force Academy, Rhodes College,
Air War College, Inter-American Defense College, the University of
Miami, the Marine Command and Staff College. He also worked at the
Instituto de Altos Estudios Estrategicos ( During the last twenty
years, Dr. Mora worked as a consultant to the Library of Congress, U.S.
Department of the Air Force, Department of the Army, the Central
Intelligence Agency, the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS),
the National Democratic Institute, U.S. State Department, the
Organization of His opinion pieces and
other commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, Miami Herald, La
Tercera (Chile), Wall Street Journal, CNN, Los Angeles Times, El Tiempo
(Colombia), National Public Radio, Voice of America, and USA Today. Dr.
Mora is the author or editor of five books and numerous academic and
policy articles and monographs on hemispheric security, U.S.-Latin
American relations, civil-military relations, and Latin American foreign
policy. Dr. Frank O. Mora
presently serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western
Hemisphere Affairs, one of the three components of the Office of the
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and
Judge Albert Diaz Judge Albert Diaz, a
Special Superior Court Judge for Complex Business Cases in Albert Diaz, 49, of In 1983, Albert Diaz
earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the He enlisted in the
Marine Corps and began his legal career in the Marine Corps, where he
served as a prosecutor, Defense Counsel, and Chief Review Officer. He
moved to the Navy’s Office of the Judge Advocate General (JAG), where
he served for four years as appellate government counsel, handling
criminal appeals. He left the service in
1995 for private practice, becoming an Associate Attorney with the law
firm of Hunton & Williams and represented Philip Morris USA during
tobacco lawsuits in the late 1990’s. Diaz, served as a
Special Superior Court Judge for Complex Business Cases, Diaz was the
first Latino appointed to the North Carolina Superior Court when he was
named as a resident Superior Court Judge in 2001.
After his Nov. 4, 2009,
nomination by President Obama, the judge received an American Bar
Association rating of “unanimous well-qualified.” At the hearing,
the nominee pledged to follow rather than create law and agreed that
diversity on the bench signals to Americans that they can trust that
justice will be applied with fairness, Diaz stated, “We’re not
simply dealing with an academic exercise, but we’re affecting
people’s lives in each and every case.” He added later, “Empathy
comes ... if citizens believe they’ve gotten a fair shake.” *Updates from Previous Articles* Michael Huerta: Deputy Administrator in the Transportation
Department, confirmed June 23, 2010, (See June 2009 issue of “Somos
Primos” for complete biography)
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Janet Murguía A Wise
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Janet Murguía received
three degrees from Murguía served as
Deputy Campaign Manager and Director of Constituency Outreach for the
Gore/Lieberman presidential campaign. During the 2000 campaign, Murguia
was the primary liaison between former Vice President Gore and national
constituency groups. She also served as spokesperson for the campaign
and handled interviews with radio, print, and TV media outlets. On July 1, 2001, Murguía
served at the Since January 1, 2005,
Janet Murguía has served as President and Chief Executive officer of
the National Council of La Raza, the largest national Hispanic civil
rights and advocacy organization in the Through Murguía’s
efforts at securing a host of new partners and resources, the NCLR ALMA
Awards returned to television in 2006 after a three-year hiatus as part
of NCLR’s strategy to promote fair, accurate, and balanced portrayals
of Latinos in the entertainment industry. In 2009, Murguía was
the Keynote Speaker and became the “Advocate of the Year” for her
commitment to the Hispanic community. Her advocacy and career trajectory
inspires and motivates many. She remains true to her beliefs and has
become a key figure among the next generation of leaders in the Latino
community. “I am honored to be awarded as an advocate of the year this
evening,” stated Murguía. On April 10, 2010, Janet
Murguía was one of five women connected to the university to be
inducted into the Kansas University Women’s Hall of Fame in Murguía is currently a
Board member of the Independent Sector, a coalition of leading
nonprofits, foundations, and corporations committed to connecting,
informing, and advocating on behalf of the nonprofit and philanthropic
community. She is also a member of the Merrill Lynch Diversity &
Inclusion Council and is an executive committee member of the Leadership
Conference on Civil Rights. In addition, Murguía sits on the Board of
the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility and the National
Hispanic Leadership Agenda.
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Changing
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Hispanics are transforming the nation's religious landscape,
especially the Catholic Church, not only because of their growing numbers but
also because they are practicing a distinctive form of Christianity. Religious expressions associated with the pentecostal and charismatic movements are a key attribute of worship for Hispanics in all the major religious traditions -- far more so than among non-Latinos. Moreover, the growth of the Hispanic population is leading to the emergence of Latino-oriented churches across the country. To explore the complex nature of religion among Latinos, the Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life collaborated on a series of public opinion surveys that totaled more than 4,600 interviews, constituting one of the largest data collection efforts conducted on this subject. The study examines religious beliefs and behaviors and their association with political thinking among Latinos of all faiths. It focuses special attention on Catholics, both those who retain their identification with the church and those who convert to evangelical churches. About a third of all Catholics in the U.S. are now Latinos, and the study projects that the Latino share will continue climbing for decades. This demographic reality, combined with the distinctive characteristics of Latino Catholicism, ensures that Latinos will bring about important changes in the nation's largest religious institution. Most significantly given their numbers, more than half of Hispanic Catholics identify themselves as charismatics, compared with only an eighth of non-Hispanic Catholics. While remaining committed to the church and its traditional teachings, many of these Latino Catholics have witnessed or experienced occurrences typical of spirit-filled or renewalist movements, including divine healing and direct revelations from God. Even many Latino Catholics who do not identify themselves as renewalists appear deeply influenced by spirit-filled forms of Christianity. Similarly, the renewalist movement is a powerful presence among Latino Protestants. More than half of Hispanics in this category identify with spirit-filled religion, compared with about a fifth of non-Hispanic Protestants. The study also shows that many of those who are joining evangelical churches are Catholic converts. The desire for a more direct, personal experience of God emerges as by far the most potent motive for these conversions. Although these converts express some dissatisfaction with the lack of excitement in a typical Catholic Mass, negative views of Catholicism do not appear to be a major reason for their conversion. The practice of religion is not only often renewalist in character, but for most Latinos across all the major religious traditions it is also distinctively ethnic. Two-thirds of Latino worshipers attend churches with Latino clergy, services in Spanish and heavily Latino congregations. While most predominant among the foreign born and Spanish speakers, Hispanic-oriented worship is also prevalent among native-born and English-speaking Latinos. That strongly suggests that the phenomenon is not simply a product of immigration or language but that it involves a broader and more lasting form of ethnic identification. These two defining characteristics -- the prevalence of spirit-filled religious expressions and of ethnic-oriented worship -- combined with the rapid growth of the Hispanic population leave little doubt that a detailed understanding of religious faith among Latinos is essential to understanding the future of this population as well as the evolving nature of religion in the United States. Beyond the strictly religious realm, this study suggests that the roles Latinos play in U.S. politics and public affairs are deeply influenced by the distinctive characteristics of their religious faith. Most Latinos see religion as a moral compass to guide their own political thinking, and they expect the same of their political leaders. In addition, across all major religious traditions, most Latinos view the pulpit as an appropriate place to address social and political issues. The study also sheds new light on the role religious affiliation plays on party identification among Hispanics. Latinos who are evangelicals are twice as likely as those who are Catholics to identify with the Republican Party. Latino Catholics, on the other hand, are much more likely than Latino evangelicals to identify with the Democratic Party. These differences rival, and may even exceed, those found in the general population. Both the Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life are projects of the Pew Research Center, a Washington-based, nonpartisan research organization that seeks to provide timely information free of any advocacy on issues, attitudes and trends that are shaping America and the world. This study is the result of a yearlong collaboration involving more that a dozen researchers drawn from the staffs of both projects with expertise in a variety of subjects and research methodologies. The centerpiece of the study is a telephone survey of a nationally representative sample of 4,016 Hispanic adults conducted between Aug. 10 and Oct. 4, 2006. The survey included an oversample of 2,000 non-Catholics, which permits an examination of the growth of evangelical and pentecostal Christianity among Latinos, including the process of conversion, in unprecedented detail. The sampling methodology also provided for robust numbers of respondents in all the major country-of-origin segments of the Hispanic population, allowing for detailed analysis of results by this important variable. Both the extent of renewalism and of ethnic-oriented worship were further examined in recontact interviews with 650 Catholics drawn from the sample of the first survey. The research team also examined data from a large body of surveys previously conducted by both projects, particularly the latest of the Forum's extensive surveys of religious belief and behavior in the general population, which offer various comparisons between Hispanics and non-Hispanics on many points. Chapter Index Chapter 1: Religion and Demography More than two-thirds of Hispanics (68%) identify themselves as Roman Catholics. The next largest category, at 15%, is made up of born-again or evangelical Protestants. Nearly one-in-ten (8%) Latinos do not identify with any religion. Differences in religious identification among Latinos coincide with important differences in demographic characteristics. For example, Catholics are a more heavily immigrant population than evangelicals. Given current demographic trends, Latinos are projected to become an ever-increasing segment of the Catholic Church in the U.S. Chapter 2: Religious Practices and Beliefs For the great majority of Latinos, regardless of their religious tradition, God is an active force in everyday life. Most Latinos pray every day, most have a religious object in their home and most attend a religious service at least once a month. By significant majorities, Latinos who identify with a religion believe that miracles are performed today just as they were in ancient times. Amid this overall religiosity, important differences emerge among Latinos of different religious traditions and between Latinos and their non-Hispanic counterparts. Chapter 3: The Renewalist Movement and Hispanic Christianity Renewalist Christianity, which places special emphasis on God's ongoing, day-to-day intervention in human affairs through the person of the Holy Spirit, is having a major impact on Hispanic Christianity. Among Latino Protestants, renewalism is three times as prevalent as it is among their non-Latino counterparts. A majority (54%) of Hispanic Catholics describe themselves as charismatic Christians, making them more than four times as likely as non-Latino Catholics to identify with renewalist Christianity. The implications of this are particularly important for the Catholic Church, given that the rapidly growing Latino flock is practicing a distinctive form of Catholicism. Latino Catholics nevertheless remain very much Catholic. Indeed, renewalist practices seem to have been incorporated into Hispanic Catholicism without displacing Catholic identity. Chapter 4: Conversion and Views of the Catholic Church Nearly one-fifth (18%) of all Latinos say they have either converted from one religion to another or to no religion at all. Conversions are a key ingredient in the development of evangelicalism among Hispanics. Half of Hispanic evangelicals (51%) are converts, and more than four-fifths of them (43% of Hispanic evangelicals overall) are former Catholics. By an overwhelming majority (82%), Hispanics cite the desire for a more direct, personal experience with God as the main reason for adopting a new faith. Among those who have become evangelicals, nine-in-ten (90%) say it was this spiritual search that drove their conversion. A majority of evangelical converts (61%) say the typical Catholic mass is not lively or exciting, although only about one-in-three (36%) cite that as a reason for their conversion. Chapter 5: The Ethnic Church The houses of worship most frequented by Latinos have distinctly ethnic characteristics. A majority of those in the congregation are Hispanic; some Latinos serve as clergy; and liturgies are available in Spanish. The growth of the Hispanic population is leading to the emergence of Latino-oriented churches in all the major religious traditions across the country. While the prevalence of Hispanic-oriented worship is higher among the foreign born, with 77% saying they attend churches with those characteristics, the phenomenon is also widespread among the native born, with 48% saying they attend ethnic churches. Chapter 6: Religion and Politics Two-thirds of Hispanics say that their religious beliefs are an important influence on their political thinking. More than half say churches and other houses of worship should address the social and political questions of the day. By nearly a two-to-one margin, Latinos say that there has been too little expression of religious faith by political leaders rather than too much. Churchgoing Hispanics report that their clergy often address political matters, although the extent of that practice varies considerably by issue and by religious tradition. Chapter 7: Ideology and Policy Issues Religious affiliation and church attendance are strongly related to political ideology and views on a variety of social and public policy issues among Latinos. Even after controlling for language ability, nationality, generation and education, for instance, Latino evangelicals are still significantly more conservative than are Catholics on social issues, foreign policy issues and even in their attitudes toward the plight of the poor. Latino Catholics, in turn, are somewhat more conservative than seculars when it comes to gay marriage, government-guaranteed health care and increases in government services. Frequency of church attendance tends to be correlated with more conservative views on social issues after controlling for a variety of demographic factors. Chapter 8: Party Identification and Ideology Latino evangelicals are twice as likely as Latino Catholics to be Republicans. That is a far greater difference than exists among whites. Moreover, Hispanic conservatives who are Catholic favor the Democrats, while white conservatives consider themselves Republican regardless of religious tradition. The Democratic Party holds a nearly three-to-one advantage among Latino Catholics who are eligible to vote (48% vs. 17% for Republicans). Because the Latino electorate is overwhelmingly Catholic (63%), Catholics represent the core of Democratic support among Latinos. Indeed, 70% of all Latino eligible voters who identify as Democrats are Catholics. Party identification among Latino evangelicals is more narrowly divided and appears to slightly favor the Republican Party. Among Hispanic eligible voters who are evangelicals, 37% say they consider themselves Republicans and 32% say they are Democrats. http://pewhispanic.org/reports/report.php?ReportID=75 Sent by Roberto Vazquez admin@lared-latina.com |
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| The Orlando Sentinel, June 15, 2010 ORLANDO, FL — Fernando Nuñez Esquiaqui feels as comfortable speaking English and Spanish as he does eating hamburgers and Colombian arepas. But he is not an immigrant. Nuñez was born in Los Angeles more than 19 years ago and is part of a tide of young U.S. Americans of Hispanic heritage who feel at ease between two cultures — and embrace both. “I feel extremely proud of being an American because I was born in this country, but to me being
an American allows me to also be proud of my Colombian roots, because we
all come from immigrants,” said Nuñez, an east Orange County resident and student at Valencia Community
College.
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The Tejanos: Where We Came From In Celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month |
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September 16, 2009 In celebration of Hispanic month in America it needs to be said that as we celebrate many ethnic commemorations throughout each year we must remember that America has always been a melting pot of people who have adopted a way of life that defined freedom as its priority. As Hispanics, meaning those of us with Hispanic origins be they Mexican, Central American, South American, Puerto Rican, Cuban, or Spanish, we came to America seeking the same freedoms that the Pilgrims did as well as the many Europeans who came through Ellis Island during the greatest of immigrations to America. Some came to escape famine and poverty, but still in search of freedom not theirs in Europe and beyond. My first ancestor came to America circa 1622, landing in the port of Vera Cruz, Mexico, with the annual fleet from Spain. Around forty Spanish galleons usually came into the Vera Cruz harbor around mid-August, taking their turn to deliver goods and passengers coming to the New World. It had been 130 years since America had been discovered by “Cristobal Colon,” or Columbus as he is known in America, when he landed on what he called San Salvador on October 12, 1492. The “descrubimiento” (discovery) of the Americas set the stage for the beginning of the modern world. “The age of Columbus is almost without a parallel, presenting perhaps the most striking appearances since the star shone upon Bethlehem. It saw Martin Luther burn the Pope’s bull, and assert a new kind of Independence. It added Erasmus to the broadness of life. Modern art stood confessed in Da Vinci, Michael Angelo, Titian, and Raphael. Copernicus found in the skies a wonderful development without the great telescopic help. The route of the Portuguese by the African cape and the voyage of Columbus opened new worlds to thought and commerce. They made the earth seem to man, north and south, east and west, as man never before had imagined it. It looked as if mercantile endeavor was to be constrained by no bounds. Articles of trade were multiplied amazingly. Each adventure and voyage was not only new and broad, but it was unique for the time and profitable as well. This was the age that brought my first ancestor to America.” It was only 91 years since the great explorer Hernan Cortez (1531) had conquered the highly innovative Aztec Empire. It was only 82 years since the intrepid Coronado (1540) had explored the vast regions of the American Southwest. It had been only 87 years since Alvar Nunez De Cabeza De Vaca had explored the Texas coast. By 1600, the age of conquest was coming to an end and the period of exploration, settlement, and development was unfolding. The Spaniards would carry their zeal for new land, precious metals, hardwoods, spices, and salt, into the 19th century. It was not an easy task to explore the regions of the Southwestern United States. It was a time of adventure for the explorers, but it was also a hardship to face the unknown. It was 1978 during my graduate studies in history that I came across the great historian Carlos E. Castaneda that basically introduced me to Spanish Colonialism and inspired me to pursue my genealogy. I started my search at the Texas Land Office looking for what was known then as the “Porciones” or Spanish Land grants provided early colonizers by the King of Spain. It was there that I first ran across a file in the Richardson library called the Seabury Papers. Since then much has been written about the Seabury papers. Seabury was an attorney that specialized in land grants and did extensive research into lineage for many reasons. Nevertheless, it was there that I discovered the Guerra lineage that belonged to my grandmother on my father’s side. Captain Antonio Guerra y Canamar was born in 1602, in the mountains of Old Castile (Canamar, 1623). It is assumed from general history that he was like every young man in Spain at the time. Knowing that a new world had been discovered by Columbus and knowing about the explorations of Cabeza De Vaca, Coronado, De Soto, Pineda, and Cortez, Antonio pursued service in the King of Spain’s army that allowed him to literally see the new world. When Antonio came to Mexico circa 1622, he was about twenty years old, and records show he was a Captain in the Spanish Army. He married Luisa Fernandez Del Rio Frio on December 22, 1624, in the Cathedral of Mexico City (Canamar, 1623). Luisa Fernandez Del Rio Frio was a Mestiza of both Indian and Spanish descent. Her lineage could have been Olmec, Aztec, Tlascalan, Haustec, Mixtec, or of any other combination that lived in Mexico City by 1624. By this time most of the Indians were of mixed lineages. The Spaniards had fully integrated with the Aztecs while disease such as smallpox had claimed a great number of them. I soon realized that many of us are the embodiment of what Corky Cortez called “I am Joaquin” in his epic poem. Mexico City was already a sprawling metropolis by 1622. Hernando Cortez, the conqueror of the Aztecs, had established a hospital in Mexico City, in 1540, to care for the needy. The first University in the Americas was established in Mexico City in 1589. The first library was also built in Mexico City prior to 1600. Captain Antonio Guerra y Canamar arrived in Mexico near the beginning of the European Renaissance. By 1740, my ancestors had come to what is now Mier, Mexico, and occupied “Porcion 66” on the northern border of the Rio Grande granted by the King of Spain made up of several thousand acres that looked like a triangle touching the Rio Grande. All of the families settled in the famous “Porciones” along the northern border of the Rio Grande came to colonize what is now Texas beginning in the 1730’s. To draw a parallel, the American colonies in the East by the 1730’s were populated and still under English rule. The following is a list of the first families that came to the colony of Mier circa 1730 and for the most part identify the ancestral make up of the Southwest. My ancestors come from “Porciones 66, 67, and 68 as listed. The First Families to Colonize Mier Circa 1730 Porcion# 1. Gaspar Garcia 2. Santiago Barrera 3. Lucio Lopez 4. Manuel
Hinojosa 5. Manuel Hinojosa 6. Ramon Guerra 7. Juan Francisco Saenz 8.
Gervacio de Hinojosa 9. Francisco Pena 10. Teodoro Pena 11. Rosa Garcia
12. Jose Vera 13. Bartolo Flores 14. Francisco de la Garza 15. Joe
Hinojosa 16. Manuel Sandoval 17. Jose Antonio Olivarez 18. Santiago
Olivarez 19. Jose Olivarez 20. Nicolas Gonzales 21. Nicolas Gonzales 22.
Jose Lorenzo de la Garza 23. Juan de la Garza 24. Javier Saenz 25.
Marcelino Saenz 26. Ignacio Garcia 27. Diego Flores 28. Juan Garcia 29.
Javier Salinas 30. Marcelino Hinojosa 31. Dionicio Resenda (Resendez)
32. Francisco Gil 33. Jose Pena 34. Joaquin Bazan 35. Andres Lugo 36.
Cleto Gonzales 37. Manuel Adame 38. Vicente Garcia 39. Unassigned 40.
Jose Bazan Francisco Guerra of “Porcion 66” is a great-grandfather of mine that colonized Mier, Mexico or what we now know as Texas. Sometime later in the late 1600’s two of my ancestors Juan and Vicente Guerra traveled with the explorer Alonzo de Leon into Texas in search of the French explorer La Salle. They found La Salle’s Fort St. Louis on Garcita’s Creek near Matagorda Bay where La Salle and company had been slain by Indians. It was General and later Governor Alonzo de Leon who was the first to see and identify Baffin Bay here in Kleberg County. The Mexicans, those of Spanish and Aztec lineage, have contributed greatly to the colonization of the American Southwest bringing with them many ethnic foods; names of rivers like the Nueces, Brazos, and Colorado; the structure of city government as we know it today; land and water laws that were established early in their occupation of the Southwest; ranching as we know it today began with the early “vaqueros” of Mexico; architecture that can be seen here in Kingsville; and the first cattle and horses to roam the coastal bend all came from Spain and then Mexico. The celebration of the Independence of Mexico from Spain on September 16 is more about a people seeking the same freedom from tyranny that the American colonists did in 1776. Today it is a celebration of a people who colonized the American Southwest and became Americans by virtue of Texas Independence from Mexico in 1836 and then becoming a part of the United States in 1845. Nevertheless, knowing your roots is part of establishing a healthy locus of control versus being marginal in a society made of many folkways, some good and some bad. To that end, the public is invited to a genealogical survey workshop on Spanish Colonialism at the Institute of Rural Development, 915 S 9th, sponsored by speakers Ben Figueroa and Juan Escobar, who are both accomplished genealogists and well versed in Spanish Colonial history. It will be an evening of learning about your past and how to find your ancestors. The workshop will be from 6:30 to 8 pm, Sept. 23, and will conclude with a question and answer period. For more information call Ben Figueroa at 522-2666. http://www.kr-bn.com/news/2009-09-16/Front_Page/The_Tejanos_Where_We_Came_From_003.html Sent by Margarita Garza |
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BERTA ALFONSO Latina Women Of NASA of The Month NASA Kennedy Space Center HEP@NASA LaRc e-Newsletter - July 2010 |
Ms. Berta Alfonso served as a Design Engineer for 17 years at Kennedy Space Center. She has designed and developed computer hardware and software for various project at KSC supporting shuttle, payloads, and Space Station processing. Berta currently serves as KSC's University Affairs Officer. In this capacity, she leads university student and faculty programs, informal education, and e-education. Berta's first design was a circuit card to emulate the Payload Signal Processor (PSP) which is a shuttle flight box that sends commands to payloads. Her card was used in the Partial Payload Checkout Unit to test payloads on the ground before it was launched. She has also worked developing Health and Status software for the processing of Space Station modules. She has also designed a flight interface card to receive X-34 flight data for on-board analysis. After 17 years in engineering, Berta moved to education as KSC's e-Education Project Manager. This position afforded her to marry both of her passions, engineering and education, in managing projects to create NASA based tools and resources for students and teachers. Berta then served as KSC's University Affairs Officer leading university student and faculty programs, informal education, and e-education. Currently, she serves as the Lead for Education Agency-wide Projects managed at Kennedy Space Center. Educational Background: Berta was born in Cuba. She graduated with a bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the University of Miami. She also holds a Masters in Systems Engineering and Management from the University of Central Florida. Sent by Debbie Martinez debbie.martinez@nasa.gov |
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New group forms to research and uncover the pre-1731 Spanish presence in
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A reception was held on Tuesday July 13,2010 for Mimi
Lozano, Editor SOMOS PRIMOS. Mimi was in San Antonio with an exhibit
mounted by the Hispanic Medal of Honor Society, honoring our War
Heroes at the National Council of La Raza conference. The reception
was held at the beautiful Southwest Craft Center which is located at
the Old Ursuline Academy here in San Antonio. It brings back
beautiful memories for me whenever I am there because this is where
I was Educated. I see the scenes of my early life every where
that I walk. The halls for me are images of the Ursuline Sisters who
we called Mothers walking to their classrooms or standing talking to
some of the young ladies who attended school there. I think of
wonderful peace, love and tranquility that I
experienced there during the years that my mother was ill,
eventually Momma passed. As we walked into the Museum section I was
reminded by the docents of the double bows. I had long forgotten
that I was a double bow girl. After Report Cards, the bows would be
distributed. Blue ones for A in academics,a gold one for A in
Conduct.
Mimi's reception was held in one of the tea rooms
located at the Copper Kettle. The rooms are actually the old
Classrooms and upstairs was the convent where the sisters lived. The
beautiful Gothic style building that was once the Chapel is
now used for receptions and weddings and the outdoor lawn leading to
the Grotto and the San Antonio River are absolutely breathtaking.
Located at the top of one of the buildings is the old Clock Tower.
The Tower only has Clocks facing to the East, South and West of the
City. It has no Clock to the North because nothing existed to the
North. This was the furthest Northern outpost of San Antonio. If you
are ever in San Antonio make one of your stops the Southwest Craft
Center.
Sylvia Carvajal Sutton
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New San Antonio group forms to research and uncover the pre-1731 Spanish presence in Texas Editor: What a joy it was to be in San Antonio. Although I was born in San Antonio and my roots go back to the early Canary Island colonizers who established the first civilian settlement in 1731, I have no childhood memories of life in San Antonio because who moved to Los Angeles when I was an infant in arms. Sylvia Carvajal are primas way back to 1731. Our common ancestor is Captain Joseph de Urrutia, Commander of the Royal Presidio of San Antonio de Bexar, whose story is in this issue, written by primos John and Bernadette Inclan. In addition to the sweet comfort of finding myself surrounded by distant cousins was the announcement by Sylvia that the group of researchers had been invited to the luncheon in my honor and that of Judge Robert Thonhoff, as the kick-off to start a new genealogical and historical effort: to research and uncover the pre-1731 Spanish presence in Texas. |
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Left to right on the Ladies: Florence I. Carvajal, Recording Secretary, San Antonio de Bexar Chapter, Daughters of the American
Revolution, Dorothy Perez, Member,San Antonio de Bexar Chapter Daughters of the American
Revolution, Corrine Staacke, Past Regent San Antonio de Bexar Chapter Daughters of the American
Revolution, Sylvia Carvajal Sutton, 2nd Vice Regent,San Antonio de Bexar Chapter Daughters of the American
Revolution, Member National/International Spanish Task Force, National Society Daughters of The American
Revolution, Janie V. Mora, Member San Antonio de Bexar Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution. |
Peter Barron: President San Antonio
Chapter Sons of The American Revolution, Jessie Villarreal: member Austin Chapter Sons of the American Revolution. Rene Villarreal: Member San Antonio Chapter Sons of the American Revolution, Ruben Perez:1st Vice President San Antonio Chapter Sons of the American Revolution. The luncheon was filled with many heart-warming and unexpected highlights. Dear friend, Judge Robert Thonhoff, historian and author "Texas Connection to the American Revolution" was recognized with me.
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| Judge Thonhoff, his wife Vicci and their daughter, Margaret were with us. Many years ago, I came across Robert's book. I was so excited with the information, I could not contain myself. I tracked Robert down and called his home directly. To my wild inquiry, I was received sweetly by Vicci, who said, assuredly, "Robert will want to speak to you." He did!! | ||
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| Rueben M. Perez gave me a copy of his just
released book: "Let We Forget: A Tribute to Those Who Forged
the Way" and a CD, Corrido of Juana Navarro & Songs of
Her Time. Book, excellent, 219 pages of highly referenced and
detailed information on the history and leadership of early San
Antonio. The corrido was taped live and as performed beautifully by the Inozentes in Spanish and English, accompanied by guitar. The special gifts did not end. I also received a book from Dorothy Perez, "President of the Canary Islands Descendant's Association, San Antonio, The First Civil Settlement in Texas, A Guide for Teachers, K-12". The soft-cover book was prepared un the direction of Marian L. Martinello, the University of Texas at San Antonio and Thomas H. Robinson, Granaderos de Galvez. It was first published by the city of San Antonio, February 1981 in celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Canary Islanders arrival in San Antonio. |
` Corrine Staacke, Past Regent San Antonio de Bexar Chapter, DAR me, and Sylvia Carvajal Sutton. |
Corrine Staacke gave me a
copy of a book, "The Alamo Heroes and Their Revolutionary
Ancestors" published in 1976 as a Bicentennial Project of
three DAR chapters. There are Hispanic names in the book, which I will
share in future issues. Dear Sylvia Carvajal Sutton, who made this all happen, gave me a silver charm of Texas with a cut-out heart in the middle. What a sweet memory, never to be forgotten. Sylvia is the 2nd Vice Regent, San Antonio de Bexar Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution, Member National/International Spanish Task Force, National Society Daughters of The American Revolution. Sylvia is taking a group to tour Spain. Very well traveled, with lots of contacts, Sylvia wrote: "Primita: I have been to Spain over a dozen times." If you are free in November, and might be free, do contact Sylvia. There are still a few places left. |
Trip to Spain, November 6th –November 17 Our planned trip to Spain is going to be very exciting. Not only are we visiting exciting places but also planned events are well underway. We’re happy to say that we can accommodate four more travelers. If you are interested in having a wonderful trip please call me at 210-341-3824 .You can also email me at
ssutton5@satx.rr.com. We will be visiting:
Madrid, Toledo, Casares, Merida, Seville, Cordoba, Granada,
Macharaviaya, Costa del sol. Hasta Luego, Sylvia Carvajal Sutton Also for your information, Molly* will continue to be our chair and she will host us on several events. We will visit many of the famous places such as the Alhambra in Granada,El Prado Museum in Madrid, Macharaviaya which is Galvez hometown near Malaga. We plan to have a tour of the area where they are building a replica of the Galveztown (Galvez Brigintine). *Molly Ann Long de Fernandez de Mesa is DAR Spanish Task Force Chairman in Spain.
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Editor: After a tour of the Old Ursuline Academy
and Southwest Craft Center, Sylvia and Corrine took me to visit the
Governor's Palace and Casa Navarro State Historic Site. What a
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Explore the life of a Texas patriot in the heart of downtown San Antonio. A rancher, merchant and one of only two native-born Texans to sign the Texas Declaration of Independence, José Antonio Navarro was a leading advocate for Tejano rights. Casa Navarro State Historic Site celebrates his life at his original 1850s adobe and limestone home, a historic jewel among its urban surroundings. Within the smooth stucco and whitewashed walls lie period furnishings and personal mementos offering a fascinating look at the life of one of Texas’ greatest statesmen.
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Alfonso B. Perez,
August 20, 1918 - July 2, 2010 - at 91 years old Jose Felipe de la Pena December 2, 1935 - July 2, 2010 at 74 years old Juan
Manuel Garcia Passalacqua February 22, 1937- July 2, 2010 at 73 years
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Alfonso B. Perez, August 20,1918
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 Alfonso B. Perez, a veteran administrator who helped shape special education programs in the Los Angeles Unified School District and as principal guided his alma mater, Roosevelt High, during a tense period of Chicano protest, died July 2 at Scripps Memorial Hospital in La Jolla. He was 91.
The cause was a heart attack, said his grandson, Paul Aguirre.Perez joined the district as a teacher for disabled students in 1947, when few resources were available in public schools for students with physical and mental impairments. In 1956 he rose to become principal of Widney High School in central Los Angeles and turned it into a model campus where disabled students were encouraged to develop their academic skills, become more independent and participate in athletic programs. In 1970 Perez took over as principal of Roosevelt High when the East L.A. school was beset with protests over substandard conditions. Perez was credited with restoring stability to the campus while introducing reforms that addressed the community's concerns about school quality. He later served in various district-level posts, including director of special education. After his retirement in 1980, the district renamed one of its Eastside elementary schools the Alfonso B. Perez Special Education Center. It is now known as the Alfonso B. Perez School and serves elementary and secondary students. "He was very dedicated. Everything he did was all for the kids," said Shizuko Akasaki, a former district administrator and colleague. Perez was born in El Paso on Aug. 20, 1918. One of six children of Mexican immigrants, he moved with his family to East L.A. when he was 7. He excelled in track at Roosevelt High and went on to L.A. City College, where he studied for two years before being drafted in 1941. During World War II he served in the China-Burma theater as a bombardier in the Air Force, earning the Air Medal and Distinguished Flying Cross with clusters. After the war he earned a bachelor's degree in physical education on the GI Bill at Occidental College and a master's in special education from USC. He taught P.E. for nine years in special education programs throughout Los Angeles. The district later published his master's thesis as a manual for special education teachers. Sent by Mercy Bautista Olvera |
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Ramon Eduardo Ruiz dies at 88; historian of Mexico and Latin America at UC San Diego Link: http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jul/10/local/la-me-ramon-eduardo-ruiz-20100710 The National Humanities Medal winner wrote 15 books, including in-depth looks at the Cuban and Mexican revolutions. July 10, 2010|By Dennis McLellan, Los Angeles Times.  Ramon Eduardo Ruiz, a renowned historian of Mexico and Latin America whose books included in-depth studies of the Mexican and Cuban revolutions, has died. He was 88. Ruiz, an emeritus professor of history at UC San Diego, died Tuesday at his home in Rancho Santa Fe of complications from a recent fall and a battle with cancer, said his daughter Olivia Ruiz. Ruiz, who joined the history department at UC San Diego in 1970 and chaired the department in the early '70s, was the author of 15 books, including "Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People," "Cuba: The Making of a Revolution," "The Great Rebellion: Mexico, 1905-1924" and "On the Rim of Mexico: Encounters of the Rich and Poor." In 1998, the 77-year-old American son of Mexican immigrants joined historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., biographer Stephen E. Ambrose, novelist E.L. Doctorow and five other distinguished Americans who were awarded the National Humanities Medal at a White House ceremony. In the classroom and through his books, Ruiz told the San Diego Union-Tribune before traveling to Washington, he sought to "convey the complexity and excitement of Mexican history. I especially try to convey the great cultural richness of Mexican life and of Mexican literature." Richard Atkinson, University of California president emeritus and former chancellor of UC San Diego, said in a statement that Ruiz "contributed greatly to the excellence of the institution." "His passing is a great loss to the UCSD community and to historians throughout the world," Atkinson said. Born Sept. 9, 1921, in the Pacific Beach neighborhood of San Diego, Ruiz grew up in La Jolla, where his interest in the history of Mexico was piqued by his nursery-owner father, a former member of the Mexican navy who left his country during the revolution. "My father was a militant nationalist," Ruiz said in a 1998 interview with The Times. "He would talk about the heroes of Mexico, the food of Mexico, the character of Mexico and the folklore of Mexico. We were saturated with tales of Mexico, the values, and pride in our Mexican heritage." After serving in the Army Air Forces as a B-29 pilot in the Pacific theater during World War II, Ruiz earned his bachelor's degree from what is now San Diego State in 1947. He received his master's from what is now Claremont Graduate University in 1948 and his doctorate from UC Berkeley in 1954. He began his teaching career at the University of Oregon in 1955. By the time he joined UC San Diego in 1970, he had spent 11 years as a professor at Smith College in Northampton, Mass. Although he had enjoyed life in New England, he said in the Union-Tribune interview, "I felt the need to be next to Mexico. "On top of that, I wanted to establish friendships with Mexicans across the border and I wanted to teach young students. That was very important to me," said Ruiz, who was instrumental in building a strong Hispanic studies program in history at UC San Diego. Mario T. Garcia, a professor of Chicano studies and history at UC Santa Barbara, was one of Ruiz's first graduate students at UC San Diego. Ruiz, Garcia said, "was a man of substance. Not only was he a major historian of Mexico, especially about the Mexican Revolution of 1910, but he was a man with a very strong social conscience, and he passed that on to his students." Ruiz was an early protester of the Vietnam War and supported Cesar Chavez's efforts on behalf of migrant farmworkers. "He was always fighting for issues of social justice; those were very dear to his heart," said Olivia Ruiz. Ruiz retired from UC San Diego in 1991 but continued to write, including his 2003 memoir, "Memories of a Hyphenated Man," which examined what it meant to be American by birth and Mexican by culture. In the fall, the University of California Press will publish his final book, "Mexico: Why a Few Are Rich and the People Are Poor," which will also be published in Spanish through Oceano Press in Mexico. Ruiz's wife of 62 years, Natalia, died in 2006. In addition to Olivia, he is survived by his other daughter, Maura Parkinson; his sisters, Emma Urueta and Eva Montalvo; his brother, Roberto Ruiz; and two grandsons. A memorial service is pending. dennis.mclellan@latimes.com Sent by Roberto Calderon, Ph.D. beto@unt.edu Source: Jorge Mariscal gmariscal@ucsd.edu
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| Obituary in the Ventura County Star: Noted sculptor, former Oxnard Community College dean, Moorpark Community College counselor and Navy veteran Jose de la Pena passed away July 2 at his Ventura home after an eight-month struggle with pancreatic cancer. He was 74. Born Dec. 2, 1935 in Mirando City, Texas, the second of four children, to José Miguel and Ramona de la Peña, he moved as a child with his family first to nearby Oilton and then to Laredo. There he was graduated by St. Joseph's Academy, afterward joining the Navy, where he served as an aircraft mechanic on the USS Hancock during the Korean War. Later, he attended Loyola University in New Orleans and then Texas A & I University in Kingsville, Texas, where he earned a BS degree in secondary education. In 1967 he moved to California and received his MA degree in education from San Jose State University. He completed his studies with an ABD in confluent education from UC Santa Barbara. His career in education spans 32 years, first teaching art and Spanish during the 1960s in Ukiah, at one time directing the first bilingual program in California. On June 19, 1971 José married Karen Zunino and they had two sons, Alex and Damian. Jose's first college position was in San Bernardino where he was a counselor and directed financial aid at San Bernardino Valley College. The family moved to Ventura in 1975 when Jose became one of the founding faculty of Oxnard College. He later became a Dean, an Acting Vice President, finally retiring from Moorpark College in 1997. It was then that José pursued his passion and dream of being an artist/sculptor. His pieces have been exhibited, acclaimed and have won first place prizes in local and regional competitions. Over the past 30 years Jose was an active genealogist and has published 20 books on his family's history in south Texas. Recently, he was honored with the title of "Hidalgo" by the Bexar County Historical Commission for his contribution to family history in south Texas. His vast research is a part of university and private collections. "José always looked for the beauty within people, art and history," says Karen. "His influence on students is vast, and I think his family history contribution is enormous, and the beauty of his art will endure." Preceded in death by his son, Damian, José is survived by wife, Karen and son, Alex (Janelle); children from his first marriage, Michael, Leila Lamun (Steve), Adriana Ene (Telly), Mark; sister, Rose Warthen (Carlos); brother, Javier; 11 grandchildren and one great-grandchild; numerous nieces and nephews; countless friends. Funeral service will be held 10 a.m., Friday, July 9 at Ted Mayr Funeral Home, 3150 Loma Vista Road, Ventura. Interment will follow at Santa Barbara Cemetery, 901 C hannel Drive, Santa Barbara. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to the Damian de la Pea Scholarship Fund, Ventura College Foundation, 4667 Telegraph Road, Ventura, CA 93003. Arrangements are under the direction of the Ted Mayr Funeral Home and Crematory, Ventura. Condolences may be left at www.tedmayrfuneralhome.com. Sent by Ernesto Uribe, Jose M. Pena, George Farias, Dahlia Guajardo Palacios, and Viola Rodriguez Sadler
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Juan Manuel Garcia Passalacqua February 22, 1937- July 2, 2010 |
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El Nuevo Día (July 2, 2010) translated from Spanish by NiLP The renowned lawyer and political analyst, Juan Manuel Garcia Passalacqua, died this afternoon in the state of Ohio where his daughter lives. According to several former colleagues of the popular leader who requested anonymity because they did not have authorization from the family to discuss the situation, García Passalacqua died today at 7:30 pm at 73 years of age. At the moment, the cause of his death is not known, although it is known that he had cancer. The political science professor was born on February 22, 1937 in San Juan. He studied at Tufts University, Harvard University and Cambridge College, one of the most prestigious universities in the United States. He also had a master's degree from the Tulane University School of Law in New Orleans. García Passalacqua, who was an adviser to Luis Muñoz Marín and former United States president Jimmy Carter, is survived by his wife of the past 45 years, the historian Ivonne Acosta, three children and six grandchildren. For his part, Governor Luis Fortuño, his former neighbor and friend who in 2009 declared the day of his birthday, February 22, 2009, as "Day of Juan Manuel Garcia Passalacqua," upon learning of his death, officially declared three days of mourning and flags were hoisted at half-staff tomorrow, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, except on Sunday because of the protocol of never placing the flag at half mast on Independence Day. Sent by Juan Marinez |
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Mexican Drug War, 25,000 Citizens Slain Hispanics
in the US: A New Generation Don't Call it Racism: The Tyranny of Words Mexicans, Canadians are Americans, Too Take our jobs |
| In readjusted figures released by Mexican
drug war officials last week, more than 25,000 citizens have been slain
since December 2006 when President Felipe Calderon declared a war on the
drug cartels. Source: johnross@igc.org Blindman's Buff #291
Undocumented immigrants entering California
by boat.
Summer edition of the CURE-NY Newsletter at: http://www.bestweb.net/~cureny/
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The NAACP has endorsed a November ballot initiative that would legalize recreational use of marijuana. Alice Huffman, president of the California NAACP, says the group supports Proposition 19 to counter marijuana arrest rates that she believes unfairly target blacks.
Pastor Ron Allen, president of the International Faith-Based Coalition based in Sacramento, is leading opposition to the measure. He says most African-American pastors are upset by the NAACP decision because of the negative impact drugs have had on the black community. "Hispanics in the US: A New Generation," |
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Hispanic immigrants receiving more of the mainstream American pie might be achieved if we learn from the struggle that was waged by Irish immigrants who came to the U.S. tired and poor but overcame institutionalized discrimination to gain political parity. I've spent time here in Dublin learning about Ireland's history of struggle, uprising, independence and migration. What impresses me the most is how these people made names for themselves in the U.S., and how their success could be a model for the Hispanic community. The Irish started showing up on U.S. soil en masse in the 1830s. They spoke English, sure, but with an accent and were ridiculed, marginalized and discriminated against. They were denied work just for being Irish, they generally were used as cheap, disposable labor. The key to the eventual economic empowerment of Irish immigrants was a heavy involvement in the political process: They networked, building powerful organizations, then set out to work successful alliances with non-Irish ethnic groups. That's the inspiring part, the part that makes me feel I'll be writing a similar success story about Hispanic immigrants in a few decades: The Irish came here poor, uninvited and uneducated. They were hated, used and abused, but they worked hard, found their own political voice and eventually became part of the landscape -- just another ethnic minority taking a fair shot at the American Dream while melting down in the great assimilation pot. Latinos in the U.S. are getting there... the Latino community is uniting into an all-American subgroup that can and will come together to have a strong voice in the U.S. It's a community that's starting to flex real political muscle and simultaneously create alliances with Asian, European and other immigrant groups on the rise. Like the Irish, Latinos and their multicultural offspring will grow up to become just another part of the landscape, with representation in all walks of private, public and civic life. Oh, it'll take a while, but those days are coming. Like the Irish, Hispanics will achieve complete assimilation through politics. |
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Assemblyman Tran Co-Authors Bill To Fight Human Trafficking www.asm.ca.gov/ Tran Assemblymember.Tran@assembly.ca.gov
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SACRAMENTO - Assemblyman Van Tran (R-Costa Mesa) and Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) are authoring
California Senate Bill 677 to help stop human trafficking by allowing law enforcement to seize land involved in human trafficking. "Human trafficking is the modern day version of slavery, and every additional step toward abolishing this ever present evil is a step we must take. SB 677 is one of those steps," said Assemblyman Van Tran. "We must send the message that anyone participating in human trafficking will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law and that the victims will be protected." SB 677 will further deter perpetrators of human trafficking by increasing the penalty. This bill allows any real property used to help promote or aid human trafficking to be seized until the declared nuisance is suppressed, as well as subjecting the trafficker to the costs of the seizure and a civil fine up to $25,000. "By supporting bills like SB 677, we are affirming California's role as a leader in our nation in the fight against human trafficking," continued Tran. "I have a long history of support in this fight, and will continue to fight to have effective laws on the books to fight human trafficking." The state of California has one of the largest human trafficking problems in the United States. Human trafficking, as defined in California law, is the dealing with of persons typically forced into either labor or sexual exploitation. According to a 2007 study conducted by the California Alliance to Combat Trafficking and Slavery Task Force, 90% of human trafficking victims are women, 47% of the victims are used in prostitution, and 33% are used in domestic servitude. Assemblyman Van Tran's adamant support of the fight to end human trafficking can be seen in previous bills that he both co-authored and supported. His support spans his time in office, from AB 22 by Assemblywoman Sally Lieber (D-San Jose) in 2005 to Assemblywoman Julia Brownley's (D-Santa Monica) AB 988 in 2009, as well as multiple bills in between. Assemblyman Van Tran proudly serves the people of the 68th Assembly District, which includes portions of Anaheim, Costa Mesa, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove, Newport Beach, Santa Ana, Stanton, and Westminster. |
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| Information below was from Military.com . . Today in the Military http://www.military.com/Data/Popup/New_Education_Popunder.htm Sent by Juan Marinez marinezj@anr.ms.edu Guantanamo Spending Nears $2B 07 Jun 2010 The U.S. military has spent at least $500 million in recent years on renovations to Guantanamo Bay, including $296,000 for a go-kart track, records show. Add in spending for top-secret items and the total cost easily soars toward $2 billion, The Washington Post reported Monday in the first public accounting of spending at the base since the first suspected terror detainees arrived in January 2002. The costs do not include the $150 million a year that it takes to run the 45-square-mile base [for US contractors], which the Obama administration wants to close. At least $500 million spent constructing prison camps, renovating Guantanamo Bay 07 Jun 2010 At the U.S. naval station here, a handsome electronic sign hangs between two concrete pillars...The cost of the marquee, along with a smaller sign positioned near the airfield: $188,000. Among other odd legacies from war-on of-terror spending since 2001 for the troops at Guantanamo Bay: an abandoned volleyball court for $249,000, an unused go-kart track for $296,000 and $3.5 million for 27 playgrounds that are often vacant. The Pentagon also spent $683,000 to renovate a cafe that sells ice cream and Starbucks coffee, and $773,000 to remodel a cinder-block building to house a KFC/Taco Bell [*puke*] restaurant. |
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Comments on new book by Philippa
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| From Albert V. Vela cristorey@comcast.net Sent: 6/3/2010 to Frank Mendoza, Louie Holguin, Edward Morga, Eddie Espinoxa, Danny Gomez, Robert Castillo, Rick Valverde, Thomas J. Haupert, Gonzalo Mendez, Gustavo Arellano, Doris Thomas, Virginia San Roman, and Gus C. Sifuentes. Subject: Strum's book: Méndez v. Westminster (2010) Hi Frank y Carnales de OC, As I got to the final chapters, I felt like I was witnessing a heated 400 m (440 yds) dash where the runners come to the finish line and they all have a mighty chance to hit the tape first. . . So Frank, here are some more impressions. Strum gives us good background about the Westminster Board of Education leading to July 1945 when Judge McCormick heard the Mendez case. At one point they were thinking of moving the Hoover School to the all-white 17th St School. They didn't do it for lack of funds. I got the impression from Strum that Supt R Harris was racist toward MexicanAmericans. Nonetheless, the discussions with the School Board were respectful. Harris was another case. So in 1944 the Board discussed sending Hoover's primary grades (K-4) to the 17th St School which they did in the 1945/46 school yr (Strum says this took place in 46/47, p. 128). So of the four sch districts, Westminster was the only one of the four that decided to integrate. . .whereas the others waited until after the results of the appeal were heard in 1947. The 7 federal judges (Ninth Circuit Court in SF) unanimously supported Judge McCormick's verdict! On pg 147 the author writes that Santa Ana allowed MexAm students to transfer in 1947/48 so that the all white Franklin Sch became 50% MexAm. I find this strange (Franklin becoming 50% MA) because I have class photos of the all MexAm Fremont Sch in 1951/52 where the students are 100% MexAms! Maybe the students were transferred / bused from the Delhi and/or Logan barrios. . . Strum fails to give us a complete picture here. . . One thing that the Garden Grove, El Modena and Westminster Sch Districts had in common is that they were by and by rural as compared to Santa Ana with a population of 40,000. In 1945 Wstmtr & Garden Grove had perhaps 5,000 inhabitants. El Mo maybe about the same. Only two schools composed their Sch Districts. It appears to me that Westminster either saw the writing on the wall or their hearts weren't wholly set on segregation. At one point they pointed to the role of previous school boards who implemented the policy. I think this was sometime around 1943/44/45 when Gonzalo appeared before the Board. Santa Ana. Into the 1950s this city was predominantly Anglo. Then things started to change demographically in the 60s because when I started working for the SD in 1972 (72-74) there was a pronounced "white flight." Folks started moving into Tustin and environs. Thirty + yrs later SA's white population is at best 15%. Hector Tarango and Fred Ross also played a significant part in the case. The MexAm communities in OC, Riverside, San Bernardino and LA haven't given Ross enough appreciation for his part (knowledge/work) in uplifting us in those critical years. Atty David Marcus. I'll say it again that I fail to see why Strum felt it important to mention that he was alcoholic! What was the point? We all have a minor and/or major defect/weakness/deficiency or two. . . Why not honor our heroes for their foresight, perseverance, courage, knowledge. . .fully aware that they weren't perfect? June 10th, 2010 On Jun 12, 2010, at 7:55 PM, Gustavo Arellano wrote:
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| Susan MacAllen is a contributing editor for (FamilySecurityMatters.org) Salute the Danish Flag - it's a Symbol of Western Freedom By Susan MacAllen
In 1978-9 I was living and studying in Denmark. But in 1978 - even in Copenhagen, one didn't see Muslim immigrants. The Danish population embraced visitors, celebrated the exotic, went out of its way to protect each of its citizens. It was proud of its new brand of socialist liberalism one in development since the conservatives had lost power in 1929 - a system where no worker had to struggle to survive, where one ultimately could count upon the state as in, perhaps, no other western nation at the time. The rest of Europe saw the Scandinavians as free-thinking, progressive and infinitely generous in their welfare policies. Denmark boasted low crime rates, devotion to the environment, a superior educational system and a history of humanitarianism. Denmark was also most generous in its immigration policies - it offered the best welcome in Europe to the new immigrant: generous welfare payments from first arrival plus additional perks in transportation, housing and education. It was determined to set a world example for inclusiveness and multiculturalism. How could it have predicted that one day in 2005 a series of political cartoons in a newspaper would spark violence that would leave dozens dead in the streets -all because its commitment to multiculturalism would come back to bite? By the 1990's the growing urban Muslim population was obvious - and its unwillingness to integrate into Danish society was obvious. Years of immigrants had settled into Muslim-exclusive enclaves. As the Muslim leadership became more vocal about what they considered the decadence of Denmark 's liberal way of life, the Danes - once so welcoming - began to feel slighted. Many Danes had begun to see Islam as incompatible with their long-standing values: belief in personal liberty and free speech, in equality for women, in tolerance for other ethnic groups, and a deep pride in Danish heritage and history. An article by Daniel Pipes and Lars Hedegaard, in which they forecasted, accurately, that the growing immigrant problem in Denmark would explode. In the article they reported: 'Muslim immigrants constitute 5 percent of the population but consume upwards of 40 percent of the welfare spending.' 'Muslims are only 4 percent of Denmark's 5.4 million people but make up a majority of the country's convicted rapists, an especially combustible issue given that practically all the female victims are non-Muslim. Similar, if lesser, disproportions are found in other crimes.' 'Over time, as Muslim immigrants increase in numbers, they wish less to mix with the indigenous population. A recent survey finds that only 5 percent of young Muslim immigrants would readily marry a Dane.' 'Forced marriages - promising a newborn daughter in Denmark to a male cousin in the home country, then compelling her to marry him, sometimes on pain of death - are one problem' 'Muslim leaders openly declare their goal of introducing Islamic law once Denmark's Muslim population grows large enough - a not-that-remote prospect.. If present trends persist, one sociologist estimates, every third inhabitant of Denmark in 40 years will be Muslim.' It is easy to understand why a growing number of Danes would feel that Muslim immigrants show little respect for Danish values and laws. An example is the phenomenon common to other European countries and Canada: some Muslims in Denmark who opted to leave the Muslim faith have been murdered in the name of Islam, while others hide in fear for their lives. Jews are also threatened and harassed openly by Muslim leaders in Denmark, a country where once Christian citizens worked to smuggle out nearly all of their 7,000 Jews by night to Sweden - before the Nazis could invade. I think of my Danish friend Elsa - who. as a teenager. had dreaded crossing the street to the bakery every morning under the eyes of occupying Nazi soldiers - and I wonder what she would say today. In 2001, Denmark elected the most conservative government in some 70 years - one that had some decidedly non-generous ideas about liberal unfettered immigration. Today Denmark has the strictest immigration policies in Europe . ( Its effort to protect itself has been met with accusations of 'racism' by liberal media across Europe - even as other governments struggle to right the social problems wrought by years of too-lax immigration.) If you wish to become Danish, you must attend three years of language classes. You must pass a test on Denmark 's history, culture, and a Danish language test. You must live in Denmark for 7 years before applying for citizenship. You must demonstrate an intent to work, and have a job waiting. If you wish to bring a spouse into Denmark , you must both be over 24 years of age, and you won't find it so easy anymore to move your friends and family to Denmark with you. You will not be allowed to build a mosque in Copenhagen. Although your children have a choice of some 30 Arabic culture and language schools in Denmark, they will be strongly encouraged to assimilate to Danish society in ways that past immigrants weren't. In 2006, the Danish minister for employment, Claus Hjort Frederiksen, spoke publicly of the burden of Muslim immigrants on the Danish welfare system, and it was horrifying: the government's welfare committee had calculated that if immigration from Third World countries were blocked, 75 percent of the cuts needed to sustain the huge welfare system in coming decades would be unnecessary. In other words, the welfare system, as it existed, was being exploited by immigrants to the point of eventually bankrupting the government. 'We are simply forced to adopt a new policy on immigration'. 'The calculations of the welfare committee are terrifying and show how unsuccessful the integration of immigrants has been up to now,' he said. A large thorn in the side of Denmark 's imams is the Minister of Immigration and Integration, Rikke Hvilshoj. She makes no bones about the new policy toward immigration, 'The number of foreigners coming to the country makes a difference,' Hvilshoj says, 'There is an inverse correlation between how many come here and how well we can receive the foreigners that come.' And on Muslim immigrants needing to demonstrate a willingness to blend in, 'In my view, Denmark should be a country with room for different cultures and religions. Some values, however, are more important than others. We refuse to question democracy, equal rights, < I>and freedom of speech.' Hvilshoj has paid a price for her show of backbone.. Perhaps to test her resolve, the leading radical imam in Denmark, Ahmed Abdel Rahman Abu Laban, demanded that the government pay blood money to the family of a Muslim who was murdered in a suburb of Copenhagen, stating that the family's thirst for revenge could be thwarted for money. When Hvilshoj dismissed his demand, he argued that in Muslim culture the payment of retribution money was common, to which Hvilshoj replied that what is done in a Muslim country is not necessarily what is done in Denmark. The Muslim reply came soon after: her house was torched while she, her husband and children slept. All managed to escape unharmed, but she and her family were moved to a secret location and she and other ministers were assigned bodyguards for the first time - in a country where such murderous violence was once so scarce. Her government has slid to the right, and her borders have tightened. Many believe that what happens in the next decade will determine whether Denmark survives as a bastion of good living, humane thinking and social responsibility, or whether it becomes a nation at civil war with supporters of Sharia law. And meanwhile, Canadians clamor for stricter immigration policies, and demand an end to state welfare programs that allow many immigrants to live on the public dole. As we in Canada look at the enclaves of Muslims amongst us, and see those who enter our shores too easily, dare live on our taxes, yet refuse to embrace our culture, respect our traditions, participate in our legal system, obey our laws, speak our language, appreciate our history .. we would do well to look to Denmark , and say a prayer for her future and for our own.. If you agree with this article, then please pass it on.. Islam is no different to CANCER, they are working their way into every culture like a disease & if we don’t do something NOW (as described above) then all other cultures will be in seroius trouble. WW3 will be islam against the rest of the world. |
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In Arizona and elsewhere in the country, xenophobes react negatively to the word racism, not so much that they deny its meaning, but that it does not apply to them. They accuse the accusers of trying to raise a smoke cloud. Xenophobes even quote Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.” For validation, some claim to have walked with King that day. Reporters advised me that I should not call the racists, racists, and try to educate them instead. However, there is a point that people do not want to listen, for if they admit that they are racist that would mean that they would have to change their behavior and support a rational policies that would bring about a civil society. I have been an educator for just over fifty-five years, and I recognize the difference between the classroom and reality. Students explore ideas and, as they should, they ask inane questions—that is learning and I have a duty to answer them. However, there is a point when people want to take you for a fool. Show you up. I remember when I first got to Northridge in 1969, I walked into the faculty cafeteria, and a historian called me over, and in front of his gaggle of friends told me he had a question for me. Smugly he asked, “The Jews, the Irish and the Italians have made it, what is wrong with the Mexicans and the blacks?” I quietly began to walk away, and he repeated the question more emphatically, as if I did not know the answer, insisting that I respond. I slowly turned to him and said that I was going to go out and bury one of the peas on my plate that represented his brain and then urinate on it, perhaps it would germinate it. People say that I was caustic, unprofessional, that it was a simple question. However, this was not a student; he was a PhD, a historian. In 1955, I bought my first home for $8500, no money down, qualifying on a janitor’s salary. Would it be fair, reasonable, to turn around to any working class 22-year old and ask him today whether they owned their own home? If they did not, are they dead beats? You expect a certain amount of critical thought from your peers. The truth be told, we think and speak in sound bites. We react and most of our questions are meant to justify what we think we know. We cannot criticize the United States but hate the government. We do not vote out of self-interest as much as to justify our biases or dare I call it racism. Workers in Ohio vote Republican because they hate gays and rationalize that they are protecting the sanctity of the family. Not wanting to offend so-called Arizonans, many of whom have recently migrated to the state, I will not call their attitude toward Mexican and Latino immigrants racist but irrational and contrary to their interests. Any historian will tell you that the three “C’s” that build Arizona were climate, copper and crops. However, they forget to add federal subsidies and Mexican labor. They are the machine that has kept the state going—Mexican labor built copper mining and agriculture—without it Arizona would not be what it is today. This probably does not mean much to the snowbirds and the other white refugees from other states. However, out of self-interest they should know about the the contributions of the Mexicans. My cousin Oscar died decade ago—he was a paraplegic—a drunken 23-year old white lady hit my cousin’s car as he was driving home from bingo. Oscar was assimilated. He believed in the American Dream—called himself Ozzie. He was proud of his Mexican heritage and voted Democratic—otherwise he probably would have been a heretic in our family. However, now this athletic man was shunted from nursing home to nursing home—warehoused until he died. In one of my many visits, Oscar told me that the only thing that made life bearable was the Mexican cleaning ladies and aides. Paid often below a minimum wage, they were always smiling and singing. They had that soft edge that is so distinctive to Mexican women. A lot of the snowbirds and retirees are one step away from these nursing homes—and there are not hoards of white people standing in line for these jobs. Mexican birth rates have declined from nearly 3 percent annually in the late 1990s, to 2.31 percent in 2010 and the assumption is that fertility will level off and will stabilize at 1.85 children per woman by 2050. Given the proper support and job creation instead of “irrational” U.S. policies, Mexico has the potential of being a job producing country. But if that happened, who would pick the crops in 120 degree heat? Who would take care of the aging American population? No matter what you want to call what is happening in Arizona, i.e., opportunistic, irrational behavior or racist, it amounts to the same thing. People gotten killed and race relations have been setback 50 years. These “irrational” people are presumably adults who, according to their mythology, have had every opportunity to succeed. Mexicans and other brown skinned people are not taking anything away from them. There are varying degrees of racism. Certainly, more than anything else, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer and John McCain are opportunists—they know better—but they want to get elected at any price. Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce and Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne are a combination of opportunist and racist. Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Phoenix is a racist; he knowingly lies and acts out sadism. The Tea Baggers are just part of the mob—they are swayed by the emotions of the moment. The lesser degrees are represented by the historian, who asked me, why haven’t the Mexicans made it? It took my cousin Oscar a long time to love himself and those ladies who cared for him in his last moments. Oscar is representative of many Mexican Americans and Latinos who go along with the mob. Roberto Vazquez admin@lared-latina.com |
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Canadians are Americans, Too Jose Antonio Lopez - Special to the Express-News |
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| Mimi, Juan, FYI. Web Posted: 06/21/2010 12:00 CDT The divisive Arizona immigration law has surfaced an unintended, but interesting question. Calling the law protection against border drug violence and undesirable people, supporters demand all illegal immigrants be jailed to stop them from “coming over here to America,” as someone said in a recent letter to the editor. Yet those who oppose the law contend the immigrants are “Americans” too. Who's right? The answer is that all people born in North and South America, from Canada to Argentina, are “Americans.” Using that baseline, the anti-immigration bill demonstrators are correct. However, how did something so simple get so confused? Let's revisit history. European invaders arriving in America referred to themselves as “Americans” to distinguish themselves from “Europeans.” By the 1700s, the most visible Europeans here were the Spanish, English and French. Initially, Spain and England called their people here “Americans.” In 1811, President Madison welcomed Texas' Don Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara to Washington as a “fellow American” and referred to soon-to-be independent Mexico as a sister republic. Eventually, the English colonists seized both terms, disregarding that the “A” in U.S.A. stood for the entire continent. They began to use “America” to refer only to the U.S. states and “American” to refer to their citizens. Their takeover of the term was so successful that most Canadians and Mexicans (Americans themselves) also use the terms to refer only to the U.S. and its citizens. There is an ironic link between yesteryear's white European migration to America and today's events in Arizona: 1.) No Native American tribe ever approved our European ancestors' immigration papers or issued green cards and; 2.) No Native Americans ever “jailed” Europeans for entering illegally! More ironic, white descendants of European immigrants, such as those behind the Arizona law, now control the movement of Native Americans on their own continent. Illegal immigration is wrong. So is the root cause of the ruthless turf violence on the border. We created the problem, but we are also part of the solution. If there's no illegal drug demand, there is no drug supply line or violence. In finding a solution, we need to treat our “fellow Americans” with dignity and respect. Most are doing exactly what our own white ancestors did when they left Europe and came to America for a new start. Most U.S. families should relate to the illegal immigrants' plight. Rather than jailing the brown-skinned descendants of the “First Americans” from Mexico, most of whom are looking for work to feed their families, offer them a hand, not a fist. Let's solve the human migration issue together. As simply stated in immigration reform supporter signs, “We are all Americans.” END |
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"Take Our Jobs" Edited for Somos Primos by David Peters |
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Farm workers are tired of being blamed by politicians and anti-immigrant activists for taking work that should go to Americans and dragging down the economy, said Arturo Rodriguez, the president of the United Farm Workers of America. So the group is encouraging the unemployed — and any Washington pundits or anti-immigrant activists who want to join them — to apply for the some of thousands of agricultural jobs being posted with state agencies as harvest season begins. All applicants need to do is fill out an online form under the banner "I want to be a farm worker" at http://www.takeourjobs.org , and experienced field hands will train them and connect them to farms. Those who have done the job have some words of advice for applicants: First, dress appropriately. During summer, when the harvest of fruits and vegetables is in full swing in California's Central Valley, temperatures hover in the triple digits. Heat exhaustion is one of the reasons farm labor consistently makes the Bureau of Labor Statistics' top ten list of the nation's most dangerous jobs. Second, expect long days. Growers have a small window to pick fruit before it is overripe. And don't count on a big paycheck. Farm workers are excluded from federal overtime provisions, and small farms don't even have to pay the minimum wage. Fifteen states don't require farm labor to be covered by workers compensation laws. Any takers? "The reality is farm workers who are here today aren't taking any American jobs away. They work in often unbearable situations," Rodriguez said. "I don't think there will be many takers, but the offer is being made. Let's see what happens." California's agriculture industry launched a similar campaign in 1998, hoping to recruit welfare recipients and unemployed workers to work on farms, he said. Three people showed up. http://www.takeourjobs.org |
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Claims on Obama--Hogwash We Need Accurate Information Submitted to Wikipedia! User: Marine 69-71, Why Do I Write in Wikipedia? New Group
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Oops and an apology is needed. I should have done a
through search on claims that Obama will
not serve as honorary president of the Boy Scouts, nor sign Eagle Scout
certificates. Snopes.com says those claims are hogwash. Thanks to
Don Rowland for investigating the issue and following up with a letter to
me.
However, breaking
tradition, President Barack Obama, the honorary chairman of the Boy Scouts of America, will not speak in-person before the group on Wednesday at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, as part of the organization's 100th anniversary celebration.
The president is sending a videotaped message to the scouts for Wednesday, the same day he will be in Manhattan to tape an appearance for ABC TV’s talk show “The View.”
Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/penny-starr/2010/07/27/obama-snubs-boy-scouts-100th-anniversary-favor-view#ixzz0v0JGkrDa
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Opinion:
Diversity and the Myth of White Privilege
By James Webb Wall
Street Journal (July 22, 2010)
Mr. Webb, a Democrat, is a U.S. senator from Virginia.
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Angelo
Falcón (National Institute for Latino Policy) "Note: In
the op-ed below US Senator Webb argues that Latinos have not
experienced discrimination in the United States (we just got here
the other day) and should not be eligible for government diversity
programs, which should focus only on blacks and whites. This, of
course, ignores the long history of Latinos in the United States,
particularly Mexicans and Puerto Ricans, and the existence of
Afro-Latinos. Will we be hearing more arguments like this as the
immigration debate intensifies? Webb is the senior United States
Senator from Virginia. He is also an author and a former Secretary
of the Navy under President Ronald Reagan. He is a member of the
Democratic Party."
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| The NAACP believes the tea party is racist. The tea party believes the NAACP is racist. And Pat Buchanan got into trouble recently by pointing out that if Elena Kagan is confirmed to the Supreme Court, there will not be a single Protestant Justice, although Protestants make up half the U.S. population and dominated the court for generations. Forty years ago, as the United States experienced the civil rights movement, the supposed monolith of White Anglo-Saxon Protestant dominance served as the whipping post for almost every debate about power and status in America. After a full generation of such debate, WASP elites have fallen by the wayside and a plethora of government-enforced diversity policies have marginalized many white workers. The time has come to cease the false arguments and allow every American the benefit of a fair chance at the future. I have dedicated my political career to bringing fairness to America's economic system and to our work force, regardless of what people look like or where they may worship. Unfortunately, present-day diversity programs work against that notion, having expanded so far beyond their original purpose that they now favor anyone who does not happen to be white. In an odd historical twist that all Americans see but few can understand, many programs allow recently arrived immigrants to move ahead of similarly situated whites whose families have been in the country for generations. These programs have damaged racial harmony. And the more they have grown, the less they have actually helped African-Americans, the intended beneficiaries of affirmative action as it was originally conceived. How so? Lyndon Johnson's initial program for affirmative action was based on the 13th Amendment and on the Civil Rights Act of 1866, which authorized the federal government to take actions in order to eliminate "the badges of slavery." Affirmative action was designed to recognize the uniquely difficult journey of African-Americans. This policy was justifiable and understandable, even to those who came from white cultural groups that had also suffered in socio-economic terms from the Civil War and its aftermath. The injustices endured by black Americans at the hands of their own government have no parallel in our history, not only during the period of slavery but also in the Jim Crow era that followed. But the extrapolation of this logic to all "people of color"-especially since 1965, when new immigration laws dramatically altered the demographic makeup of the U.S.-moved affirmative action away from remediation and toward discrimination, this time against whites. It has also lessened the focus on assisting African-Americans, who despite a veneer of successful people at the very top still experience high rates of poverty, drug abuse, incarceration and family breakup. Those who came to this country in recent decades from Asia, Latin America and Africa did not suffer discrimination from our government, and in fact have frequently been the beneficiaries of special government programs. The same cannot be said of many hard-working white Americans, including those whose roots in America go back more than 200 years. Contrary to assumptions in the law, white America is hardly a monolith. And the journey of white American cultures is so diverse (yes) that one strains to find the logic that could lump them together for the purpose of public policy. The clearest example of today's misguided policies comes from examining the history of the American South. The old South was a three-tiered society, with blacks and hard-put whites both dominated by white elites who manipulated racial tensions in order to retain power. At the height of slavery, in 1860, less than 5% of whites in the South owned slaves. The eminent black historian John Hope Franklin wrote that "fully three-fourths of the white people in the South had neither slaves nor an immediate economic interest in the maintenance of slavery." The Civil War devastated the South, in human and economic terms. And from post-Civil War Reconstruction to the beginning of World War II, the region was a ravaged place, affecting black and white alike. In 1938, President Franklin Roosevelt created a national commission to study what he termed "the long and ironic history of the despoiling of this truly American section." At that time, most industries in the South were owned by companies outside the region. Of the South's 1.8 million sharecroppers, 1.2 million were white (a mirror of the population, which was 71% white). The illiteracy rate was five times that of the North-Central states and more than twice that of New England and the Middle Atlantic (despite the waves of European immigrants then flowing to those regions). The total endowments of all the colleges and universities in the South were less than the endowments of Harvard and Yale alone. The average schoolchild in the South had $25 a year spent on his or her education, compared to $141 for children in New York. Generations of such deficiencies do not disappear overnight, and they affect the momentum of a culture. In 1974, a National Opinion Research Center (NORC) study of white ethnic groups showed that white Baptists nationwide averaged only 10.7 years of education, a level almost identical to blacks' average of 10.6 years, and well below that of most other white groups. A recent NORC Social Survey of white adults born after World War II showed that in the years 1980-2000, only 18.4% of white Baptists and 21.8% of Irish Protestants-the principal ethnic group that settled the South-had obtained college degrees, compared to a national average of 30.1%, a Jewish average of 73.3%, and an average among those of Chinese and Indian descent of 61.9%. Policy makers ignored such disparities within America's white cultures when, in advancing minority diversity programs, they treated whites as a fungible monolith. Also lost on these policy makers were the differences in economic and educational attainment among nonwhite cultures. Thus nonwhite groups received special consideration in a wide variety of areas including business startups, academic admissions, job promotions and lucrative government contracts. Where should we go from here? Beyond our continuing obligation to assist those African-Americans still in need, government-directed diversity programs should end. Nondiscrimination laws should be applied equally among all citizens, including those who happen to be white. The need for inclusiveness in our society is undeniable and irreversible, both in our markets and in our communities. Our government should be in the business of enabling opportunity for all, not in picking winners. It can do so by ensuring that artificial distinctions such as race do not determine outcomes. Memo to my fellow politicians: Drop the Procrustean policies and allow harmony to invade the public mindset. Fairness will happen, and bitterness will fade away. Mr. Webb, a Democrat, is a U.S. senator from Virginia.
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I would like to point out that
this thinking appears to already be in effect, in reference to
Hispanic farmers. http://www.statesman.com/news/local/hispanic-farmers-fight-to-reclaim-heritage-731075.html Stephen Hill, the attorney for the Hispanic farmers,
argues "that it's not fair for Hispanics to receive about half of what black
farmers are getting despite (2.25 billion) being more numerous."
Hispanic farmers, who number 55,570 would have to share the $1.33
billion with female farmers, who number 306,000 according to the 2007
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| Estimados/as Colegas, It has been over a year since I have posted on [LRL], however, I do read all the e-mail that comes through and I am thankful to Robert for moderating this list and for making this forum available to us. Today I come to you with a call for action. Wikipedia is a multi-lingual, free, on line encyclopedia that anyone can edit. Wikipedia is written collaboratively by mostly internet volunteers who write without pay. Wikipedia gets 68 million hits per month. There are more than 91,000 active contributors working on more than 15,000,000 articles in more than 270 languages and there are 3,327,278 articles in English. Unfortunately, Wikipedia does not accurately depict the history and culture of Mexican Americans, Chicanos, and other Latinos in the United States. This is primarily because of the make up the demographic of the contributors/editors. According to Wikipedia, the average contributor on English Wikipedia is "(1) a man, (2) technically inclined, (3) formally educated, (4) an English speaker, (5) white, (6) aged 15-49, (7) from a majority-Christian country, (8) from a developed nation, (9) from the Northern Hemisphere, and (10) likely employed as a white-collar worker or enrolled as a college student rather than employed as a labourer." Because of this, it is easy for narrow-minded editors to instill cultural bias into articles related to Hispanic & Latino issues and have it go unchecked. According to Wikipedia's Countering Systemic Bias Project Group, Wikipedia "suffers systemic bias that naturally grows from its contributors' demographic groups, manifesting as imbalanced coverage of a subject, thereby discriminating against the less represented demographic groups." I have been contributing to Wikipedia since 2006 and I can give you my opinion, which is this: The same type of people we face in person in Arizona, Texas and California are actively engaged in in cyberspace and contribute to Wikipedia articles about Hispanics and Latinos. More often than we would like, articles provide mis-information, bias, and "anti-Mexican" sentiment. Currently, there are two WikiProjects that exist to create articles that depict the history and culture of Mexican Americans and Latinos in the United States. Creating fact-based, non biased, non discriminatory articles in a forum such as Wikipedia help us to combat ignorance about our culture. These two projects are WikiProject Mexican-Americans and WikiProject Latinos. The contributors who created these two groups worked tirelessly to begin these groups and they made outstanding strides to accomplish their goals. They created lists of articles to create. They have created most of them, but many of them are "stubs", which means they need a substantial amount of work. Many more new articles are needed that are not on the list. Unfortunately, these two WikiProjects have been tagged as "inactive". The original work groups were small, but hardworking. I can only speak for myself, but I got burned out & took a considerable break. I believe this is also what happened to the others. I am trying to reactivate these two WikiProjects and they are at risk for going away if reinforcements don't arrive soon. We need your help. So I issue this call for action on behalf of the children of Arizona, who won't be studying their own heritage in school because of the passage of SB 1070. At least Mexican-American & Latino children of Arizona will be able to get accurate facts on Wikipedia. I issue this call for action on behalf of the children of Texas, whose State Board of Education has applied revisionist history to the textbooks of Texas school children - children who will not learn from their textbooks that Texas, as well as most of the American Southwest, was a part of Mexico until 1848 and that their ancestors were actually already "from here" and not "illegals" as the Texas Board of Education apparently wants them to believe. Please help us give all Mexican-American & Latinos the opportunity to learn the truth about their heritage on English Wikipedia. To begin please go to English Wikipedia from the main page at http://www.wikipedia.org Select the English encyclopedia and if you do not already have an account, you will need to create an account by clicking on "log in / create an account". Once you have a user name, please e-mail me at ggarambula@yahoo.com with your user name so I can post a welcome packet to your user discussion page ("talk page"). This will provide you with useful information, especially if you are a first time contributor. You will want to check out WikiProject Mexican Americans & you can get there by typing the shortcut WP:MEXAM in the search engine box and clicking "go". Also check out WikiProject Latinos by typing the shortcut WP:LATINOS in the search engine box and clicking "go". If you want to join please add your name to the "Participants" list and post a comment on the discussion page letting us know you're there. To those of you already contributing to Wikipedia, thank you. Your work is greatly needed and appreciated. With an organized effort we can do it. Si se puede! Sinceramente, Gayle G. Arambula San Antonio, Texas |
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into Wikipedia. There have been many times that I have felt like
quitting.
Then one day while I was looking for information about the Puerto Ricans
who have been listed as missing in action during the different wars, I
happened to come upon the name of PFC. Humberto
Acosta-Rosario whose body was never recovered during the Vietnam War
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As the July 29 enforcement date for Arizona’s strict new immigration law nears, Native American tribes are charging that the law was written without considering their unique circumstance and that it will violate their sovereignty and their members’ civil rights. Despite a request by Gov. Jan Brewer’s office to comply with the new law, Native American tribes will continue to oppose it and seek ways to avoid its implementation, said John Lewis, executive director of the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, which represents 20 tribes in the state. “Tribes have jurisdiction within their land, and state law doesn’t apply,” Lewis said. “And the law just doesn’t work in the interests of the American Indian population.” A resolution passed by the tribal council on June 4 states that the new law would lead to disproportionate stops and detentions for tribal members, violate their sovereignty and negatively impact the tribal economy. In their resolution, the group says long-accepted standards of tribal life would suddenly be incongruous with the new law. Enforcement of the law would force many law officers to reach the “reasonable suspicion” of illegal status for a large portion of Native Americans, whose legal presence within the U.S. has never been in question, the resolution states. The resolution points out that English is a second language for many tribal members. And although each tribe has different laws, members of the tribes have not been required to carry their tribal membership documents, and some don’t possess a birth certificate or proper documents. Navajo Nation Councilman Delegate Kee Allen Begay, Jr. said Arizona’s new law violates the civil rights of members of the Navajo Nation, the largest Native American tribe in the U.S. He said tribal members will be disproportionately targeted because some police might conclude that they are Hispanic. “In a way, the immigration bill is an attempt to harass Native Americans,” Begay said. “When we are pulled over or stopped we are usually pulled over and asked for our IDs. Sometimes we do not carry those things, and perhaps at that time we will have difficulty proving we are Native American.” Begay said the new immigration law does nothing positive for Native Americans. He hypothetically asked what non-Native Americans would think of a bill they perceived as targeting them for their ethnic appearance. “What if we had a law that said whenever a white person is traveling through the Navajo Reservation, we have reasonable suspicion that they’re carrying drugs? Where would the outcry on that be?” Begay asked. “We were here before anyone else, before any white people, and now we’re going to be questioned about being here legally?” Brewer’s office sent a letter May 24 to the Arizona Commission of Indian Affairs, asking the commission to cooperate with the state board that offers guidelines to law-enforcement agencies about how to enforce the new immigration law. Paul Senseman, a spokesman for Brewer, said tribal leaders have been misled when it comes to some of the main points and details of the new law. He said protections against racial profiling were included in the new law specifically to address the concerns that the Inter Tribal Council has raised. “The resolution appears to be premised on some wrong information about the bill,” Senseman said. “It’s abundantly clear throughout the law that race cannot be used to determine reasonable suspicion.” Because Native American tribes have sovereign governments, the interplay between state law enforcement and tribal law enforcement relies upon specific agreements between the tribes and other law enforcement agencies, said Larry Scarber, a tribal liaison for the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Several tribes maintain relationships that allow local, state or federal law enforcement agencies to cooperate with the tribal police, and work within the reservations. Each tribe has a different agreement with the agencies they cooperate with, Scarber said. On some reservations, non-tribal police are called only in emergencies. On others, non-tribal police work, communicate and cooperate regularly with tribal law enforcement, Scarber said. “There are so many variables,” he said. “With some of the tribes, our officers are able to enforce state laws on tribal lands, but the tribes are so different, and the way they choose to exercise their sovereign rights is always different.” Scarber of DPS said if Arizona’s new immigration law is opposed by the tribes, the law would apply only to non-tribal members on the reservation, or to tribal members when they leave the reservation. He said his agents will apply the law in accordance with the agreements they have with the tribes, and that many of the procedures will have to be developed as the new law goes into effect. Brewer tasked the Arizona Peace Officers Standards and Training (AZPOST) board with developing the law enforcement training and procedural guidelines for the immigration law by the end of June. Lyle Mann, the group’s executive director, said the concerns raised by tribes in Arizona came too late in the development of the training materials and will not be addressed specifically. “The guidance will be: Go talk to your tribe and decide what you want to do,” he said. The Inter Tribal Council of Arizona plans to meet with the National Congress of American Indians next week to agree on unified opposition to the new law and explore ways to prevent its implementation on tribal lands, Lewis, director of the council, said. Sent by Walter Herbeck, Juan Marinez, Jose M. Pena http://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2010/06/14/indian-tribes-oppose-new-immigration-law/ |
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of HispanicBusiness Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim Has Expanded His Empire into the USA Edited: Memorial for Workers Who Killed Themselves at the Factory Making Ipads Comcast Plans to Add Latino Board Member Amid Proposed NBC Deal |
 The combined revenue for the nation's 500 leading Hispanic-owned firms plummeted in 2009 by an astonishing 16.6 percent, to $30.1 billion -- the largest one-year drop in the 28-year history of the HispanicBusiness 500. The 500 and the Recession
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The magazine, which was founded in 1987 and was billed as the largest subscription-based Hispanic publication, has come to an end, with the Apr/May issue being its last.
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July 2010, Volume 3–Issue 7,
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Mexican Billionaire Carlos Slim Has Expanded His Empire into the USA By Sergio Solache |
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MEXICO CITY — A new kind of Mexican immigrant is making it big in
the USA: huge Mexican corporations that are snapping up U.S. brand
names, opening U.S. factories and investing millions of pesos north of
the border.
From Thomas' English Muffins to Borden milk, Saks Fifth Avenue department stores to The New York Times newspaper, Mexican investors have taken advantage of low interest rates and depressed prices during the economic downturn to expand their holdings in el norte. "These companies show we're not just a bunch of uneducated migrants," says Jorge Smeke, a business professor at Iberoamerican University in Mexico City. "Clearly there are Mexican investments (in the USA) that are creating jobs." In some cases, Mexican companies have taken over
Carlos Slim A slice of the pie: Newcomers include Grupo Lala, Mexico's largest dairy company, based in Gómez Palacios in the northern state of Durango. Lala bought a yogurt plant in Omaha in 2007. In 2009, it purchased Dallas-based National Dairy Holdings, which controls the Borden brand and 18 regional dairies selling milk under the names Flav-O-Rich, Dairy Fresh, Velda Farms, Sinton's, Cream O' Weber, Goldenrod and others. Grupo Bimbo, Latin America's largest baked-goods company, has also expanded its U.S. operations. In 2009, Mexico City-based Bimbo bought the U.S. baked-goods operations of Weston Foods for $2.4 billion, taking over 22 industrial bakeries and 4,000 distribution routes. In all, the Mexican company has 35 bakeries in the USA turning out national brands such as Entenmann's pastries, Boboli pizza crusts and Thomas' English Muffins to regional brands such as Brownberry bread and Mrs. Baird's snack cakes. About 43% of Bimbo's 2009 sales were in the USA. New investment in the USA by Mexican companies rose from $3.6 billion in 2005 to nearly $8 billion in 2008, according to the latest statistics from the U.S. Department of Commerce. Mexican companies employ about 59,000 people in the USA. Like Bimbo and Lala, many of the Mexican companies operate regional subsidiaries, a structure that obscures their immense size. Cemex, the world's third-largest cement maker, markets its products as Victor, Dixie, Richmortar and other names depending on the U.S. state. "Many people don't even realize (the companies) are Mexican," says Teresa Gutierrez-Haces, an economist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Cemex became a giant in 2008 after acquiring Australia's Rinker Group for $14 billion. The deal included 415 U.S. plants that produce concrete, gravel, blocks and other building materials. The company says it employs about 18,000 people in the USA. The Mexican investment in the USA is good news for both countries, says Lorraine Eden, a professor of management at Texas A&M University. The USA benefits with jobs and tax income, while the stream of foreign profits strengthens Mexico's economy. "In the end, it improves growth and competitiveness back home in Mexico," Eden says. "It's a two-way flow, and it's good for both of us." Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim has expanded his empire into the USA. In March, Forbes magazine ranked him the world's richest person, beating out Americans Bill Gates and Warren Buffett with a net worth of $53.5 billion. In 2008, Slim bought a 6.9% share in The New York Times Co., making him the largest shareholder outside the Ochs-Sulzberger family. He increased his stake in the Saks Fifth Avenue department stores from 10.9% to 18%. Tuesday, Slim entered the Manhattan real estate market, buying an office building on Fifth Avenue for $140 million. América Móvil, a cellphone company controlled by Slim, has increased its U.S. subscribers 26% since 2008 from 11 million to 15 million. The company sells prepaid cellphone service under the names TracFone, Straight Talk and Net10. Adding foreign flavor: Some Mexican companies have benefited from the spread of Hispanic culture in the USA. Gruma, which claims to be the world's largest maker of tortillas, wraps and corn flour, makes 47% of its sales in the USA and Europe, thanks to the growing popularity of Mexican food. The company has 25 bakeries and flour mills in Texas, California, Indiana and Kentucky. It is a major supplier to restaurants and fast-food chains. The González Barrera family, which controls Gruma, owns one of Mexico's largest banks, Banorte, which bought Texas-based Inter National Bank in 2009. "They're not going (to the USA) just to sell to Latinos anymore," says Juan Enciso, an economics professor with the Institute for Advanced and Continuing Studies in Monterrey.
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SAN FRANCISCO, CA - 17JUNE10 - Chinese immigrants and Chinese-Americans organized by San Francisco's Chinese Progressive Association, San Francisco, protest the long hours and working conditions at the Foxconn factory in southern China, where the Apple iPad is manufactured. They lined up in front of Apple's flagship store in San Francisco, holding signs with the names of workers at the factory who have committed suicide because of the working conditions. Those conditions include long work hours of 55 hours per week plus 80 hours of overtime a month. Chinese law limits overtime to 36 hours per month. No one is allowed to talk on the production line, and workers complain of constant high and increasing line speed. Most workers live in huge dormitories, where often 12 people share a room. Apple Corporation was embarrassed by the disclosure of the suicides and proposed link to work conditions which may have been aggravated by the push for extra production of the newly unveiled iPad. Apple said it would compensate workers by increasing the money it was paying Foxconn from 2.3% to 3% of the final price it charges for an iPad. That's the equivalent of the amount Apple spends for the device's aluminum back. German sociologist Boy Leuthje in a new book about the electronics contract manufacturing industry, "From Silicon Valley to Shenzhen" describes Foxconn practices: The hallmark of industrial mass work in Chinese contract manufacturing is the massive employment of young, mostly women workers from rural areas ... Electronics contract manufacturing combines wage labor from poor and undeveloped areas with highly modern work and living environments in world market factories. In 2008, Foxconn reported 700,000 workers in the giant Shenzhen Longhua facility, and a half dozen newly built industrial parks in other parts of China. Foxconn publicly announced in 2008 that it would reduce its workforce of 700,000 in China by 15%. In the Shenzhen Longhua facility 60,000 workers were laid off in late 2008 and early 2009 or did not return from their home villages after the Chinese New Year. Even relatively good benefits in housing, food and recreation do not significantly stabilize the workforce. In some major contract manufacturing plants, tragic incidents have highlighted the often-desperate situation of individual workers, who seek to escape the permanent pressure of management control and workplace stress. ... In 2006, the situation in Foxconn's giant industrial park in Shenzhen also gave rise to the first major public debate in China about the working conditions at contract manufacturers. A report in a British tabloid exposed the working conditions in the production of Apple's I-Pod music player at Foxconn. Chinese media then ran numerous stories about ultra-low wages and extremely long working hours in Foxconn factories in Shenzhen and other locations around the country. [Still... according to the World Health Organization data these Foxconn suicides are well below China's 30 suicides per year per 100,000 persons in the population.] Source: David Bacon dbacon@igc.org http://www.bulatlat.com/main/2010/07/03/memorial-for-workers-who-killed-themselves-at-the-factory-making-ipads |
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Institute estimates: As Many as 2.1 Million Young People Could Be Eligible for the DREAM Act, Though Far Fewer Would Meet its Education or Military Service Requirements for Legalization WASHINGTON -- Slightly more than 2.1 million unauthorized immigrant youth and young adults could be eligible to apply for legal status under the DREAM Act legislation pending in Congress, according to a new Migration Policy Institute analysis that offers the most recent and detailed estimates of potential beneficiaries by age, education levels, gender, state of residence and likelihood of gaining legalization. Prepared by MPI's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, DREAM vs. Reality: An Analysis of Potential DREAM Act Beneficiaries, makes clear, however, that far fewer people would likely obtain legal status because of barriers limiting their ability to take advantage of the legislation's educational and military routes to legalization. In the report, authors Jeanne Batalova and Margie McHugh estimate that only 38 percent -- or 825,000 -- of the 2.1 million potentially eligible DREAM Act beneficiaries likely would gain permanent legal status. According to the analysis, enactment of the DREAM Act would: Immediately make 726,000 unauthorized young adults who meet the legislation's age, duration of U.S. residency and age at arrival requirements eligible for conditional legal status (with roughly 114,000 of them already eligible for permanent legal status after the six-year wait because they have at least an associate's degree). Allow 934,000 children under 18 to age into conditional-status eligibility in the future, provided they earn a U.S. high school diploma or GED. Extend the possibility of conditional status, provided certain educational milestones are achieved, to another 489,000 unauthorized immigrants between ages 18-34 who meet the legislation's age and residency requirements but lack a high school diploma or GED. Three-quarters of potential DREAM Act beneficiaries reside in 10 states -- led by California with 553,000 (or 26 percent of total); Texas, 258,000 (12 percent); Florida, 192,000 (9 percent); New York, 146,000 (7 percent); and Arizona, 114,000 (5 percent). The other top 10 states are: Illinois (95,000); New Jersey (90,000); Georgia (74,000); North Carolina (51,000); and Colorado (46,000). The report also provides estimates for Virginia, Nevada, Maryland, Oregon, Utah and Nebraska. The report shows DREAM Act implementation would clearly affect some states more than others, given the fact that three-quarters of potential beneficiaries live in just 10 states. Access to educational opportunities for DREAM Act beneficiaries also could vary from state to state because of significant differences in college enrollment practices and tuition policies. "While most of the potential DREAM Act beneficiaries reside in traditional immigrant destination states such as California and Texas, it's interesting that the legislation could touch the lives of more Hispanic youth and young adults proportionately in new destination states such as Nevada, Oregon, Maryland, Georgia and North Carolina," said Batalova, an MPI policy analyst. "More than one in 10 Hispanics under age 35 in those new destination states potentially would stand to benefit from passage of the DREAM Act." "All in all, our analysis shows that a significant number of unauthorized immigrant youth would likely be able to meet the law's tough requirements for permanent legal status," said McHugh. "The investments they would be required to make in their education or military service on the path to permanent legal status would ensure that they are well integrated into U.S. society and bring important skills and training to the U.S. workforce." The bill, formally known as the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act would allow unauthorized immigrants to apply for legal permanent resident status on a conditional basis if, upon enactment of the law, they are: under the age of 35, arrived in the United States before the age of 16, have lived in the United States for at least the last five years and have obtained a U.S. high school diploma or GED. The conditional basis of their status would be removed in six years if they successfully complete at least two years of post-secondary education or military service and if they maintain good moral character during that period. The DREAM Act report is available at www.migrationpolicy.org/pubs/DREAM-Insight-July2010.pdf Sent by Rafael Ojeda Tacoma,WA |
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The great American educator, John Dewey, repeatedly made the case that
students did not fail, schools failed students. This principle is one of
the canons of Chicana/o or La Raza Studies. For the most part, the American public schools wrote them off as failures, blaming it on their
culture—called them culturally deprived or culturally disadvantaged. Mexican American journalist Ruben Salazar, killed by Los Angeles Sheriff deputies while covering the Chicano Moratorium of August 29, 1970, reacting to educators calling Mexicans “culturally deprived,” wrote in 1963, “Presumably they want to save these poor people terrible void by giving them culture…What they don’t seem to realize is that Mexican Americans have a culture…” Two years later the National Education Association came out with a study, _The Invisible Minority,_ part of its findings were based on a survey of the Tucson Schools. Aside from the teaching of bilingual education, the report recommended the building of pride in Mexican American students. It quotes an essay of a 13-year old eighth grade Chicana: “To begin with, I am a Mexican. That sentence has a scent of bitterness as it is written. I feel if it weren’t for my nationality I would accomplish more. My being a Mexican has brought about my lack of initiative. No matter what I attempt to do, my dark skin always makes me feel that I will fail. Another thing that “gripes” me is that I am such a coward. I absolutely will not fight for something even if I know I’m right. I do not have the vocabulary that it would take to express myself strongly enough.” The report wanted to ameliorate the high dropout rate among Mexican Americans. The solution was not to Americanize them and take their identity away from them. It asks the question: “Is there something inherent in our system of public schooling that impedes the education of the Mexican-American child—that, indeed drives him to drop out?” The NEA report found that it did, Mexican-Americans were schooled to fit a stereotype. It ingrained a negative self-image that produced the haunting words “I feel if it weren’t for my nationality I would accomplish more.” Increasingly, during the sixties an emerging Mexican American Middle-Class challenged the premise that “Mexicans are dumb.” World War II and the Korean War had shined a bright light on the high price that they had paid for denied equality. Arizona State University Chicana/o Studies Professor Carlos Vélez-Ibañez writes that “80% of Marine Reserve Easy Company … were Mexicans and Mexican Americans from Tucson, Arizona. Some at seventeen and still in high school were called up in June of 1950 and with very limited training fought valiantly through the Inchon invasion, the battle for the City of Seoul, and to the Yalu River bordering China. Some returned to graduate from Tucson High School, many wounded and all suffering from different levels of battle shock. Some Marine officers in Korea derided units with many Mexican Americans as only ‘Mexican Marines’ but were defended hotly by fists and hearts by other Marine officers like Captain Herbert Oxnam.” Mexican Americans were awarded six Medals of Honor. The 1960 U.S. Census drove home the points that Mexican Americans despite these sacrifices were not equal and one of the reasons was that they are getting an inferior education. Without a minimum education, they did not qualify for college and were unable to take advantage of the educational benefits other veterans enjoyed. By 1968, Pueblo and Sunnyside High Schools were almost half Mexican American. Students such as Salvador Baldenegro chafed at the high dropout rate and the premise that “Mexicans are dumb.” Baldenegro called attention to the failure of the schools and in March 1969 he along with other Chicano studies led walkouts at Tucson and Pueblo high schools. The grievances were that there were not enough Mexican American teachers in the schools, that Mexican cultures were dismissed, the lack of bilingual education and discrimination. Baldenegro said, "These students feel that education might be the key to break the whole cycle of poverty." In September 1969, Baldenegro led a boycott of Mexican American studies program at the University of Arizona. He and Raul Grijalva, president of the MALC, accused the administration of tokenism. They wanted a quality education. This idealism attracted students such as Guadalupe Castillo, Isabel García and others who knew Mexicans were not dumb. These events merged with other streams throughout the Southwest, Midwest and Northwest, in calling for pedagogy to address the high dropout rate and stop the schools from failing them. The pedagogy consisted of building positives image and knowing more about the development of people of Mexican extraction in the United States. It employed the multi-disciplines to study the corpus of knowledge that had been accumulated in areas such as history, sociology, education, the arts and humanities. And just like there were specialists in Asian, Latin American, American and European Studies, higher education and that teachers in particular should know the Mexican American student and not make they feel like “My being a Mexican has brought about my lack of initiative. No matter what I attempt to do, my dark skin always makes me feel that I will fail.” La Raza or Chicana/o Studies has left a rich heritage. It has addressed the problem the National Education Association described as the “Invisible Minority.” It has called attention to the presence of Latinos nationally and exposed idiotic suppositions such as “Mexicans are dumb.” Through building pride in themselves many Latinos have succeeded in higher education. Their dark skin doesn’t make them feel inferior, they are not cowards and will fight for what they believe in. In Tucson, La Raza Studies proves _que si se puede_ and for once the schools are not failing them.Sent by Juan Marinez marinezj@anr.ms.edu |
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NEW YORK, NY — When charter schools began opening in New York a decade ago, they were hailed as a better opportunity for children in poor neighborhoods, where failing schools had been the norm. But while charter schools are open to all, they have catered to one demographic group far less than another. Although Hispanics are the largest ethnic group in New York City’s public schools, there are almost twice as many blacks among the 30,000 charter school students, an analysis by The New York Times shows. The issue is a sticky one among charter school advocates, who say the most important aspect of any school is that it educates the students who attend. But officials at the city’s Education Department acknowledge that charter schools should better reflect the city and say that they are working to attract to the schools more immigrants, including those from Latin America. This year, for the first time, the city produced a directory of charter schools, translating it into eight languages. “We’re talking about a group of schools that in the grand scheme of things are relatively new and are seeking to connect with students who are going to require extra efforts to reach,” said Michael Duffy, the head of the charter school office of the Education Department. The makeup of the schools has also attracted attention from state legislators. A law enacted last month to increase the number of charter schools in the state required that the schools enroll more students who are still learning English, as well as more special education students, although it is unclear how those provisions will be monitored or enforced. In many ways, the demographics reflect the history of charter school growth in the city. The schools, which are privately run but publicly financed, almost immediately gained major backing from powerful black politicians and clergy leaders. The first ones were concentrated in and around Harlem, not only because of its large concentration of struggling schools, but also because its proximity to the Upper East Side and the Upper West Side would make it easier to attract teachers, attention and affluent donors. Latino leaders, meanwhile, embraced the schools more slowly, and few community organizations that catered to Latinos rushed to create charter schools. Today, blacks make up 30 percent of the enrollment in the school system, but 60 percent of the enrollment of charter schools. Hispanics, who account for 40 percent of the enrollment of public schools, represent only a third of the charter school population. There are now nearly 100 charter schools in the five boroughs, including a number in predominantly Latino neighborhoods like Washington Heights, East Harlem and Sunset Park. But even in those neighborhoods, the schools do not reflect the surrounding communities, the analysis by The Times shows. Charter schools have proportionately fewer Latino students — as well as fewer students learning English, regardless of their ethnicity — than nearby schools, including schools that share the same building. If charter schools matched the demographics of their neighboring district schools, there would be roughly 5,000 additional Latino students enrolled in them, according to the analysis, which used demographic data from the Education Department. The principal of the Carl C. Icahn Charter Schools, Jeffrey Litt, said he and colleagues made efforts to recruit a student body that reflects the schools’ Bronx neighborhoods. But at Icahn Charter School 4 in the South Bronx, for example, slightly more than a third of the students are Latino, while a traditional public elementary school two blocks away is three-quarters Hispanic. At Harlem Day Charter School on East 123rd Street, one-quarter of the students are Latino, compared with nearly three-quarters at Public School 96 three blocks south. At Harlem Success Academy 4 on Lexington Avenue and 120th Street, one in five students is Hispanic, compared with two-thirds of the students in the traditional public school, Public School 7, that it shares a building with. The Times’s school-to-school comparison covered only elementary and middle schools, which make up the vast majority of charter schools in the city. Most high schools in the city are not zoned and draw students from far beyond their neighborhoods. (Excluding high schools, blacks make up 62 percent of the charter schools’ enrollment.) Lillian Rodríguez López, the president of the Hispanic Federation, a network of social service organizations, has been supportive of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s changes in school governance, but she said the low enrollment of Latino students was a worrisome sign, particularly because the mayor and Chancellor Joel I. Klein praise the charter schools as beacons of success.
In many charter schools, he added, the board has a far higher proportion of whites than the
student body does, which could compound the problem of missing a particular slice of students.
Some speculate that Latino parents, particularly in middle-class families, are more likely to
choose Roman Catholic schools as an alternative to traditional public schools. And many parents
interviewed said they were skittish about sending their children to a school where they would be
among only a few Latino students. Each charter school has the responsibility to recruit students, and methods vary widely. But all
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The Organization of American Historians supports the efforts of the professionally trained educators of Texas to achieve and maintain a history curriculum that reflects the basic consensus of scholarship. Those efforts have been compromised by the Texas State Board of Education through the revisions that it has proposed to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for Social Studies. These amendments promote politically sectarian perspectives and thereby diminish the capacity of teachers to present students with an understanding of the past that conveys the best, most professional historical research available. The Executive Board of the Organization of American Historians, an association with nearly 9,000 members, calls upon officials of the state of Texas to adopt a history curriculum that reflects the understanding of history developed by the historians and history teachers of Texas.
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The role of the Texas border city of El Paso remains one of the little-known stories of the revolutionary upheaval that erupted in Mexico in 1910. The US city on the Rio Grande was a vital center for many of the lots, intrigues, advances and retreats of different political factions vying for power in Mexico. Future president and opposition leader and Francisco Madero maintained a base in El Paso. Supporters of dictator Porfirio Diaz found refuge in the stately homes of now-trendy Sunset Heights. The feet of Pancho Villa touched the ground of El Chuco, as El Paso is sometimes colloquially called. “A lot of the activities were planned, organized and orchestrated here in El Paso,” said Keith Erekson, director of the Center for History Teaching and Learning (CHTL) at the University of Texas at El Paso. As Mexico marks the 100th anniversary of her revolution, it’s fitting then that Erekson and his colleagues are sponsoring a teachers’ institute later this month in El Paso aimed at studying, exploring and reliving the Mexican Revolution. Scheduled for June 24-26, the three-day event will include lectures, Interactive exercises and even a walking tour of historical sites led by local author and historian David Romo. According to Erekson, lectures on different dimensions of the Revolution, including how it affected ordinary Mexicans on a daily basis, will be given by UTEP history professors Yolanda Leyva and Sam Brunk. Mark Anderson, professor of history at the University of Regina in Canada, will also be on hand to talk about Pancho Villa and the media, Erekson told Frontera NorteSur. A cross-curricular, multi-disciplinary approach will characterize the teachers’ institute, Erekson said. “We’re inviting all K-12 educators,” he added. All sessions and materials for teachers are free of charge. The program is underwritten by Texas Humanities, UTEP’s Teachers for a New Era and the Sid W. Richardson Foundation. In addition to helping commemorate the 1910 Centennial, the El Paso teachers’ institute comes at another important juncture: Texas’ state board of education recently approved a new public school curriculum after rancorous debate. Reviewing a draft version of the curriculum circulated for public comment last April, Erekson said he noticed a “huge oversight” in the lack of attention paid to Mexico and Mexican-Americans, a country and a people instrumental in the history and development of the Lone Star State. An important contribution of the teacher’s institute, Erekson contended, will be to give educators essential tools to create a more grounded and richer learning experience. “One of the presentations is going to be on putting the Revolution back in the texts.” Erekson said. “We want to integrate Mexico into the curriculum, not add it.” As an example of the real-world lessons teachers can convey to their
students, Erekson pointed to the relationships between social and political upheaval and migration. The UTEP history teacher said El Paso
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Chicana/o Studies Program Funded by a Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: In 2007 the EPCC Chicana/o Studies program offered a series of lectures and workshops for students and faculty focusing on issues/topics relevant to Chicana/o Studies. Visiting scholars from Chicano/Mexican-American Studies programs at various universities conducted these workshops with the aim of providing both faculty and students with a comprehensive and contemporary understanding of Chicana/o Studies as a multi-disciplinary program. The visiting scholars were asked to present one lecture on a topic related to their area of expertise as well as a conduct one workshop or participate in one forum. The topics for the lectures/forums focused on issues directly affecting the El Paso/Juarez area, the Border, or the Southwest if possible. Faculty from the Chicana/o Studies program documented the strategies and ideas generated from the workshops/forums and incorporated them into the development of a diverse, and advanced, associates of arts degree. Different faculty members affiiliated with EPCC's Chican@ Studies Program conducted the interviews including Daniel Gutierrez, Keri Moe, Mauricio Rodriguez, Jackie Mitchell and Richard Baquera. The interview videos, clips really, are incomplete as posted to YouTube and range in length up to between 9-10 minutes each. A check of the EPCC's Chicana/o Studies Program revealed that the only links posted there are those available for the YouTube links provided below. A total of six lectures were conducted and those Chicano faculty interviewed included (in the order in which they appeared): Drs. Juan Bruce-Novoa, Ruben Cordova, Emma Perez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Teresa Cordova and Rodolfo F. Acuna. Dr. Daniel Gutierrez interviews Dr. Teressa Cordova Prof. Keri Moe interviews Dr. Rodolfo Acuna Prof. Mauricio Rodriguez interviews Dr. Alicia Gaspar de Alba Prof. Jackie Mitchell interviews Dr. Ruben Cordova Prof. Mauricio Rodriguez interviews Dr. Juan Bruce-Novoa Prof. Richard Baquera interviews Dr. Emma Perez Dr. Juan Bruce-Novoa - University of California at Irvine - Lecture 1 YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdgC_heD1KM Dr. Ruben Cordova - Lecture 2 YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p15DbkMKYXk&feature=related Dr. Emma Perez - University of Colorado at Boulder - Lecture 3 YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCv2f9W9hhk&feature=related Dr. Alicia Gaspar de Alba - University of California at Los Angeles - Lecture 4 YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-0x0pDqfWI&feature=related Dr. Teresa Cordova - University of New Mexico - Lecture 5 YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lukqLZrdrno&feature=related Dr. Rodolfo F. Acuna - California State University at Northridge - Lecture 6 YouTube Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FuMKr23pB0&feature=related |
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Galveston, Texas Tree Art "Adelita" and "Machete" Past Events of Interest: Fierce Beauty a 40 yr. Retrospective
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| LECTURE: Saturday, June 19 Dr. Karen Mary Davalos, associate professor of Chicana/o Studies at Loyola Marymount University and author of numerous publications on Chicana/o art, will present, "Linda Vallejo: aesthetic developments and disjunctures." Through a visual lecture presentation, Davalos will explore the arc of Vallejo's aesthetic development and argues for a revision of American art history, particularly notions of ethnic art. Drawing the forty year retrospective exhibition and other works, she documents Vallejo's contributions to and aesthetic dialogues with American art. INTERVIEW:Saturday, June 26 Known for her insightful interviews and in-depth study of her subjects, Focus on the Masters Founder Donna Granata will interview the artist. The two will discuss Vallejo’s life and the pivotal events that shaped her development as an artist. In 2009 Linda was selected for Focus on the Masters’ formal in-depth documentation where over 20 hours of oral histories and video footage were recorded and archived. WRITERS PANEL: Saturday, July 10 The extraordinary group of arts professionals who contributed essays to Fierce Beauty, the recent book on the art of Linda Vallejo, will assemble to discuss Vallejo’s oeuvre and its context in contemporary art. Participating are: Suzanne Bellah, Director of the Carnegie Art Museum; attorney and art collector, Armando Durón; art critic Peter Frank; Anna Meliksetian, owner of Galerie Anais; long-time museum director William Moreno; USC Professor Gloria Orenstein; and East Los Angeles College Professor Sybil Venegas. The panel will be moderated by art historian and critic Betty Ann Brown, curator of the Linda Vallejo forty-year retrospective Fierce Beauty currently on view at Plaza de la Raza. Plaza de la Raza
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Clare was inspired by the preaching of St. Francis of Assisi. She was to follow St. Francis. She one went to a convent, where she wore a habit and had her hair cut. St. Agnes (Clare's sister) and many other women joined. They all lived a very simple life and they devoted their life to God. Once there was these soldiers who came to attack St. Francis and the convent. St. Clare was very ill and she asked God for protection. God heard her prayer and the soldiers fled. St. Clare and the women were all protected. Her feast day is August 11th. On August 15, 1255, Pope Alexander IV canonized Clare as Saint Clare of Assisi. Construction of the Basilica of Saint Clare was completed in 1260, and on October 3 of that year Clare's remains were transferred to the newly completed basilica where they were buried beneath the high altar. In further recognition of the saint, Pope Urban IV officially changed the name of the Order of Poor Ladies to the Order of Saint Clare in 1263. Some 600 years later in 1872, Saint Clare's remains were transferred
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Jose Felipe de la Pena Books at Borderlands Books The Collectibles Portal Review a selection of unique historical books
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The new issue of Libros, Libros: New Books in Chicano and Latino
Literature is now available. The Newsletter lists new books in 2020 by Chicano and Latino authors, or on Chicano/Latino topics.
It can be downloaded at : http://www.sendspace.com/file/3xhiny Raymundo Eli Rojas Editor/Publisher, Pluma Fronteriza and Libros, Libros www.plumafronteriza.blogspot.com rayerojas@gmail.com Pluma Fronteriza 1909 Septiembre Dr. El Paso, Texas 79935 CHICAGO LATINOS AT WORK. Some of you may already know the History of the Mexican and Puerto Ricans
who settled in Chicago in the early 1900’s. The photos in
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The Wooden Bowl - El Bol de Madera |
| Wins its Fourth 2010 Book Award! http://brainstorm3000.wordpress.com/2010/05/25/book-awards/ http://www.amazon.com/Wooden-Bowl-El-bol-madera/dp/096511743X ISBN: 9780965117432 $15.95 An interview with Ramona Moreno Winner: http://www.examiner.com/x-6309-Latino-Books-Examiner~y2009m12d16-Interview-with-Ramona-Moreno -author-of-The-Wooden-BowlEl-bol-de-madera Sent by Roberto Vazquez, admin@lared-latina.com |
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The literary archive of the U.S.-Mexican War (1846–1848) opens to view the conflicts and relationships across one of the most contested borders in the Americas. Most studies of this literature focus on the war's nineteenth-century moment of national expansion. In The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War, Jaime Javier Rodríguez brings the discussion forward to our own moment by charting a new path into the legacies of a military conflict embedded in the cultural cores of both nations. |
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"HERO STREET USA" by Marc Wilson
"HOPE IN TIME OF DARKNESS: A SALVADORAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE" |
Today's headlines are filled with back and forth arguments over Arizona 's controversial new immigration law, SB 1070. The law allows local law enforcement to question suspected illegal immigrants about their status and demand proof that they are either U.S. citizens or legal resident aliens. They risk being deported if they can't provide such proof. Civil rights groups have called the law pernicious and have launched a boycott of all things Arizonan. They claim the law invites unfair racial profiling. Supporters insist the Arizona law does not encourage racial profiling and claim the state is taking necessary steps that the federal government has neglected to take to stem the tide of illegal immigration. It's against this backdrop that two new books about the immigrant experience have just been published. One deals with Mexican Americans and the other with the Salvadoran immigrant experience, and by extension, the experiences of recent arrivals from other Central American countries such as Guatemala and Nicaragua . "Hero Street USA" by Marc Wilson spotlights the remarkable story of a small town in Illinois that has the dubious distinction of being the home of a disproportionate number of its residents who died for their country in World War II and the Korean conflict - all of them Mexican Americans. "Hope in Times of Darkness: A Salvadoran American Experience" by Randy Jurado Ertll is a slim and pithy memoir by a Pasadena resident who overcame the kinds of obstacles that are common to recent immigrants from Central America . Both books chronicle the challenges facing new immigrants and both subtly document the contributions immigrants have made to this country, in spirit and in practice. Marc Wilson writes, "In a nutshell, the story is this: In a 15-month period ending in April 1945, six men from this once unpaved street in Western Illinois were killed in action in World War II. Two more men from the same block were killed in action in the Korean War. That may be the most killed in war from any one block in the United States . But the story runs even deeper." The small town, within the shadow of the broad shoulders of Chicago, is Silvis. Wilson traces the historical, economic and political circumstances that contributed to the migration of Mexicans to Silvis and the Midwest during the early part of the 20th century. His admirable research, as personified by these heroic families, reveals the "push/pull" factors that were the catalyst for migration from Mexico. The Mexican Revolution - which began in 1910 and continued for nearly 20 years - created chaos and dislocation in Mexico. The revolution was a major factor in pushing immigrants across the border. Simultaneously, there was a desperate need for cheap labor in the United States , because many young American men were in Europe fighting in World War I. That created a magnet for immigrants. Many of the families that eventually settled in the Midwest responded to fliers distributed by U.S. companies, urging Mexicans to come to the United States for jobs on the railroads and in the meat packing houses in and around Chicago. Free train tickets were distributed to young men eager to work. Tens of thousands of Mexicans came to the United States. Their labor was welcome. Their presence was not. It was the sons of these early migrants who, born in the United States and thus U.S. citizens, signed up to fight for their country: the USA. They fought valiantly for their country. Many were awarded the Medal of Honor winners than any other ethnic group. Many were awarded the precious medal posthumously. Eventually the little street in Silvis (originally Second Street ) was re-named "Hero Street USA" in honor of the Mexican Americans who died for their country. The experiences of Salvadoran immigrants reveal how United States immigration policy and foreign policy are joined at the hip. Randy Jurado Ertll's personal experiences exemplify that. The United States government's unbridled support for the despotic Salvadoran government during the civil war of the 1980s created exiles of thousands of innocent Salvadorans caught in the cross fire of violence. Yet, the U.S. government's policy of support for that regime made it contradictory for the U.S. to readily grant political asylum to Salvadorans. A pernicious "Catch 22" for many Salvadoran immigrants. The author of "Hope in Times of Darkness" followed an arc typical of tens of thousands of Salvadoran Americans. There is a twist to his personal story, however. He was actually born in the United States. His mother had come here without documentation. When Randy was an infant, his mother was deported back to El Salvador. And that's where he grew up. Eventually, his mother was able to return to the United States with Randy. He was 8 years old. Monumental personal challenges lay ahead. In his gritty little memoir, Ertll chronicles the trajectory of his life in Los Angeles and Pasadena . Living first in South Los Angeles , he struggled to survive elementary school because he didn't speak English. Eventually, a love of learning and a few caring teachers helped him turn away from the lure of drugs and gang violence that permeated his neighborhood. Many of his friends weren't so fortunate, ending up dead or in prison. Ertll writes: "Poor minorities went on being innocent victims of drive-bys, armed robberies, beatings and murder. Those who suffered the most were beaten by both the police and gang members. They were scared to report crimes because they feared they would be deported or accused of the crimes. Unable to speak English, they had no way to defend themselves." Ertll found ways to defend himself - first, on the streets and eventually, through education. He graduated from Occidental College and worked for Congresswoman (now U.S. Secretary of Labor) Hilda Solis. Then he worked for Pasadena (now LAUSD) Superintendent Ray Cortines and eventually became executive director of Pasadena 's nonprofit El Centro de Accion Social. He is now devoted to helping other immigrants overcome the obstacles in their way to becoming productive, contributing Americans. Both the tales of the Mexican-American veterans documented by Marc Wilson and the trajectory of Randy Jurado Ertll's life story are reminders of the complexities and subtleties of the immigrant experience in today's America . It has become a cliche, but it remains true: this is genuinely a nation of immigrants. Luis Torres is a veteran journalist living in Pasadena who is a contributor to these pages. HERO STREET USA By Marc Wilson University of Oklahoma Press, $20 Interview with Randy Jurado Ertll, author of "Hope in Times of Darkness: A Salvadoran American Experience" (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UyQpfjYTvc Hamilton Books, $19 Book can be ordered tool free, 1-800-462-6420 or through VROMAN'S BOOKSTORE: http://www.vromansbookstore.com/book/9780761846666 Author: www.randyjuradoertll.com randyertll@yahoo.com |
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Swinging the Censer by Katherine M. Bell |
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early California, Juana Briones. lorrilocks@sbcglobal.net: The author of the story, Swinging the Censer, is Katherine M. Bell, written in 1919, published in 1931.Mrs. Bell was born July 22, 1844, in an old adobe on the site of Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, City by the Sea, in Santa Barbara. Her story was about “Reminiscences of Old Santa Barbara.” Katerine Den was married to John Stewart Bell. Her father was Nicholas A. Den, and her mother was Rosa Hill, daughter of Daniel Hill and Rafaela Luisa Ortega of Santa Barbara. Mrs. Bell discusses at length her family history and of the halcyon days. One of the most eventful passages is about Jack Powers, and his gang that controlled Santa Barbara and some of Mission Santa Inez areas. A very interesting aspect about Mrs. Bell, is that she personally knew Concepcion Arguello. Conception Arguello was referred to as “La Beata”, the blessed one, so named by the Ohlone Indians. One of the true love stories of early California is that of Concepcion Moraga Arguello and Nicoli Petrovich Rezanov from Russia. John F. Davis wrote “California Romantic and Resourceful”. In 1806, Nicoli Rezanov sails into San Francisco harbor from Alaska to procure supplies. Concepcion and Rezanov meet and fall in love. Rezanov returns to Russia to request permission to marry Concepcion, but on the way, he suffers an accident and died. Concepcion awaits her lover’s return and eventually learns the fate of Rezanov. Concepcion is a pious woman and devotes her time caring for people and late in life becomes a Dominican nun. Concepcion was fifteen years of age when she met Nicolai Rezanov. She was the daughter of Jose Dario Arguello commandant of the Royal Presidio of San Francisco, CA. Sister Mary Dominica Arguello is buried at the Benecian Dominican Cemetery. Concepcion and her military family traveled extensively throughout the Californias. My understanding is that there exists a picture of Concepcion Arguello in the officers club at the Presidio of San Francisco. Concepcion is credited for having planted a grapevine in Montecito. The grapevine grew to become the largest in the world, bearing 6,000 clusters in a season. I wonder if Concepcion and Juana Briones knew each other. I wonder if our grandmother Tomasa Garcia de Moreno, born 1864, Montecito, knew Mrs. Bell and Concepcion Arguello. Mrs. Bell’s story was also interesting to me because my mother’s mother, Irene Moreno de Gutierrez was born in Montecito. Also, grandmother Tomasa has grandchildren who are blended Hispanic and Russian. A woman from Stockton with whom I have spoken claims to be a descendant of the Arguello family, and she knows all about Concepcion’s life. Read Concepcion’s entire life story on the Internet. |
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Capturing Nature, the Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodriguez by Patsy Pittman Light |
Patsy Light, a native of Corpus Christi, has a BA in Art from SMU and a MA in Art from Goddard College. An artist, educator, photographer and historian, she became interested in documenting the work of Dionicio Rodriguez in San Antonio in 1995, and enlisted the aid of fellow historian, Maria Pfeiffer. Together, they began researching his life and work for the National Register of Historic Places. The result was the listing of 15 of his projects in Texas. Patsy spent 10 years continuing the work, and her book, Capturing Nature, the Cement Sculpture of Dionicio Rodriguez, was published by Texas A&M University Press in 2008. The book received the Texas Historical Association award for the best illustrated book about history and culture, and the Texas AIA award for the promotion of architecture in the media. She has worked on several additional National Register nominations and Texas Historical Commission markers. She was named a hero of Preservation by the San Antonio Conservation Society and was commended by the City and County of Goliad for her documentation of the area’s history. She recently completed her second book, Heroine of the Texas Revolution, Francisca Alavez, Angel of Goliad. Patsy Light, spoke at the July 3rd Los Bexarenos Genealogical Society meeting in San Antonio. Thanks to for bringing Dionicio Rodriguez to our attention. Sent by Larry Kirkpatrick elindio2@hotmail.com |
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"Rodriguez has pulled off not one but two stunning coups--a thoroughly original history and a penetrating commentary on what race means and will mean in our era and beyond. From 1519 to the front page of today's newspaper, from the Virgin of Guadalupe to the National Council of la Raza--the sweep alone is breathtaking. But every chapter also drills deep, and they build to an important new argument about the future of the American melting pot. By turns learned, fascinating, deeply felt (this is no academichistory), completely contemporary, and, in its picture of where we're heading, as persuasive as it is provacative. A tour de force."
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Jacoby, author of Someone Else's House:America's Unfinished
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In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard housing and experienced seasonal flooding. Gang warfare broke out regularly. Then the striking farmworkers of South Texas marched through the city and set off a social movement that transformed the barrios and ultimately brought down the old Anglo oligarchy. In Quixote's Soldiers, David Montejano uses a wealth of previously untapped sources, including the congressional papers of Henry B. Gonzalez, to present an intriguing and highly readable account of this turbulent period. Montejano divides the narrative into three parts. In the first part, he recounts how college student activists and politicized social workers mobilized barrio youth and mounted an aggressive challenge to both Anglo and Mexican American political elites. In the second part, Montejano looks at the dynamic evolution of the Chicano movement and the emergence of clear gender and class distinctions as women and ex-gang youth struggled to gain recognition as serious political actors. In the final part, Montejano analyzes the failures and successes of movement politics. He describes the work of second-generation movement organizations that made possible a new and more representative political order, symbolized by the election of Mayor Henry Cisneros in 1981.
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SAN ANTONIO -- In Quixote’s Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981, author and educator David Montejano posits that San Antonio local history provides a microscopic look at the Chicano civil-rights movement and the social change it forged. In the book’s preface he declares: “As a San Antonio native, my narrative explanation has a certain autobiographical quality to it.” Montejano grew up in “a West Side subdivision built in the 1950s, in the Edgewood District, one of the poorest in the state and later made famous by its successful challenge of the state’s educational financing schema. My neighborhood was a poor working class surrounded by poorer neighbors on three sides.” Still, Montejano’s parents made the decision to send him to Catholic school since it provided a better education. He attended Central Catholic High in the mid-1960s along with George and Willie Velásquez and Ernie Cortés, all of whom later played important roles in the movimiento. While future San Antonio mayor Henry Cisneros also attended the Catholic high school, Montejano considers Cisneros a beneficiary but not part of the Chicano movement. The seeds of Montejano’s activism were planted early on: “The Brothers [of Mary] taught a humanistic philosophy of brotherhood that later became liberation theology.” He was drawn to those teachings with their attention to poverty and social inequality. His freshman year at then South Texas State University in San Marcos proved important to the young man’s education: He witnessed a clash between a Mexican service-station attendant who had refused to put gas in a car of drunken cowboys and how it was effectively defused. Later, when a caravan of striking farmworkers came through the small college town, Montejano joined them. He transferred to the UT Austin campus where he became involved in the counterculture, anti-war, and black civil-rights movements and helped collect petitions to get La Raza Unida Party on the state ballot. His activism led to his arrest during a student protest in Austin against service-station owner Don Weedon. Montejano is now a professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the author of the award-winning Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1936-1986, and the editor of Chicano Politics and Society in the Late Twentieth Century. 
Unlike many academic books steeped in jargon, Quixote’s Soldiers is a fascinating look into the making and undoing of el movimento chicano and more specifically traces “some parts and tactics to its history of the Chicano movement in San Antonio.” Juan Guajardo (foreground) and other Brown Berets leading a march against police brutality, San Antonio, November 20, 1971. Photo from San Antonio Light Collection / UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures / San Antonio Current. We spoke to Montejano during a brief visit upon the publication of Quixote’s Soldiers. In the first part of Quixote, you point out how San Antonio’s gang problem in the 1960s wasn’t helped by how it was viewed by the authorities. There was a real gang problem, but it was exacerbated by the perception by authorities that all the working- and lower-class youth in the barrios were gang members. This included the social scientists that would come from the outside to study the youth. They would come in with this assumption that was an oversimplification and false. But there were gangs and conflicts that were passed on from generation to generation. But when I talk about self-identified gangs, I’m speaking of a very small number, perhaps 10 percent. Your account of how Mexican-American student activists [many from St. Mary’s University] along with politicized gang social workers mobilized disenfranchised barrio youth is fascinating. And yet organizations like [the Mexican American Youth Organization] and [the Mexican American Unity Council] quickly faced opposition from the Anglo and Mexican-American political elite. The MAYO leadership and the batos locos of the barrio hanging out truly influenced one another. But once Henry B. shuts down places like [the alternative] La Universidad del Barrios, these young college kids get involved in politics. Symbolic politics. The batos were geared to addressing local issues: police brutality, drug trafficking. If they had remained together who knows how this could have developed. Where do the Brown Berets fit in the movimiento? I remember there were some Wild West types in the Berets and a few informants as well. Wild West Side types. The first part of the book deals with barrio youth and gang warfare and how they become involved in the movement and eventually form the Brown Berets. The [academic] literature places little emphasis on the barrio or the batos locos that formed the Berets. The first confederation of the Berets in San Antonio is based on the old gang boundaries and identities. Did Saul Alinsky’s community-organizing strategy have a bigger influence on MAYO and MAUC than the Mexican Revolution? The Mexican revolution provided the symbols and the songs [laughs] and the color, but without question, Saul Alinsky. And, of course, the Black Power movement. Why did the rhetoric turn to the confrontational “Kill the Gringo!”? Jose Angel Gutiérrez, Nacho Perez, Mario Compean, [and] Norman Guerrero all believed that the only way you could wake up our people was through this confrontational, provocative language. There was an image that we were a passive people, the sleeping giant. Estos batos were going to wake up the sleeping giant through their rhetoric. This scared the hell out of the political establishment -- the Anglo and Mexican-American elite. You devote several chapters to Henry B. Gonzalez [influential San Antonio politician who served in Congress, 1961-1999], who viewed the Raza movement as racist. Still he was also considered a hero for his liberal stance on issues. Why this division? Was this old crab trying to keep the others down? Political posturing?
I definitely believe that. It is not just my belief but that of others that I have interviewed -- the fact that CBB was able to place second without any money and just campaigning in the barrios, using mimeograph machines, going to the
quinceañeras, clearly a low-budget affair. And they clearly won against the GGL in the West Side. And not by tiny margins; there were some substantial margins. This results in Mario Compean declaring himself Mayor of the West Side. |
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Peralta, Marine Sgt. Rafael Peralta's Brother US Civil War Through the Eyes of Those that Live It We
are Thankful for your Fathers' Service in WWII Sgt. Van T. Barfoot, Of Magnificent Valor The Angel of Mons As Long As I Remember: American Veteranos, Documentary 54 minutes New Rules to Help Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress : Veterans Department Reduces
Requirements for Claiming PTSD 'Aztec Eagles' A Dying Breed; Only 10 of 300 Still Living |
HELL TO ETERNITY MOVIE ON YOUTUBE Footnote.com has worked with the US National Archives to bring millions of original records to the Internet for the first time. Civil War records that feature everything from personal accounts to historic writings that would shape a nation. Explore vivid details of Civil War battles through maps and photos. Get a personal picture of the war through Union and Confederate soldier service records, pension files, and more. http://go.footnote.com/civilwar/ Sent by Bill Carmena JCarm1724@aol.com VJ DAY, HONOLULU, 1945 by Richard Sullivan 65 Years Ago my Dad shot this film along Kalakaua Ave. in Waikiki capturing spontaneous celebrations that broke out upon first hearing news of the Japanese surrender. Kodachrome 16mm film: God Bless Kodachrome, right? I was able to find an outfit (mymovietransfer.com) to do a much superior scan of this footage to what I had previously posted, so I re-did this film and replaced the older version There are more still images from this amazing day, in color, at discoveringhawaii.com http://www.discoveringhawaii.com/Driving_and _Discovering_Hawaiis_Islands_of_Love__Oahu,_Maui |
Korean War Photo gallery AP) The war that began in Korea 60 years ago, on June 25, 1950, a ghastly conflict that killed millions and left the peninsula in ruins, became “The Forgotten War” in many American minds. To a shrinking corps of aging men, however, the soldiers of Korea 1950-53, it can never be forgotten. It damaged many physically, scarred many mentally, and left men questioning their commanders’ and their nation’s wisdom. They fought many enemies – not just the North Koreans and Chinese, but also the heat, the killing cold and the cursed hills, the thirst, hunger and filth, the incompetence and hubris of their own army, and the indifference of an American homeland still fixed on the “good” war, World War II, that had ended five years earlier. http://blogs.denverpost.com/captured/2010/06/17
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Tech. Sgt. Michael P. Flores was an elite Air Force “PJ” on a mercy flight when his helicopter went down That was the day the father of two marked his fifth wedding anniversary.
At one time, pararescuers were known as “parajumpers.” The name changed, but the “PJ” initials stuck.When he started two years of rigorous PJ training at Lackland AFB, Flores' time as a competitive swimmer may have given him an edge.
On his first day, Flores had to swim 75 feet underwater, run 11/2 miles in less than 10 minutes and 30 seconds, and perform 50 sit-ups in 2 minutes and 50 pushups in 2 minutes.
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My Dad never really talked about his Navy service much, and I didn't especially like history so I didn't ask. I'm really glad now that the U.S. defense department keeps records and makes them so available to people who want to find out. I knew that my Dad had served in the Pacific during WWII, but these are some of the things I didn't know:
Source
of images of LSM 281 from http://www.navsource.org/archives/10/14/14281.htm and I got the Okinawa landing photo from the National Archives.
You might also want to add that you can go to http://www.archives.gov/veterans/evetrecs/index.html
to order military records. You have to be either be the veteran yourself or the spouse, parent, or child of a deceased veteran to get the records. You also have to send a signature form—and someone from the Navy may actually call and talk to you. I was impressed by how thorough they were. Gotta share one more thing... I'd always heard that my dad had enlisted at 17 by lying about his age and that his mom went crazy (both of his parents were widowers, and he was the youngest child in a “yours, mine, and ours” family of 10 children). She supposedly went to the Navy and told them how old her “baby” really was, so they made him go home after he'd already started in training. There isn't verification of that enlistment in the records they sent me, but there is a form in there that shows he got certification to be a machine gunner, and the certification date is about 10 months before his official enlistment---hmmm
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| Head east from Carthage on Mississippi 16 toward Philadelphia After a few miles a sign says you're in Edinburg It s a good thing the sign's there, because there's no other way to tell. On June 15, 1919, Van T. Barfoot was born in Edinburg -- probably didn't make much news back then. Twenty-five years later, on May 23, 1944, near Carano, Italy, Van T. Barfoot, who had enlisted in the Army in 1940, set out to flank German machine gun positions from which fire was coming down on his fellow soldiers. He advanced through a minefield, took out three enemy machine gun positions and returned with 17 prisoners of war.
Van T. Barfoot's Medal of Honor citation:
This
1944 Medal of Honor citation, listed with the National Medal of Honor
Society, is for Second Lieutenant Van T. Barfoot, 157th Infantry, 45th
Infantry:
WE LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE, ONLY BECAUSE OF THE BRAVE! IN GOD WE TRUST Sent by gennut777@roadrunner.com
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At the end of August in 1914, two regimens of Allied soldiers waited to die in Mons, Belgium. Surrounded by far-better-equipped German forces, the Allies were out-manned and outgunned, yet their losses that day were far fewer than expected. How had the tiny regiments survived? According to the soldiers themselves, they did not fight alone. Hundreds of mounted, armored soldiers put themselves between the Allied soldiers and the German army under a golden-haired leader who rode a white horse. The British soldiers believed that leader to be Saint George. Phyllis Campbell, a nurse serving behind the lines at Mons, was surprised at the condition of Allied wounded. Instead of screaming in pain, they were strangely calm and spoke of a great man on a white horse leading the battle. Over and over as she moved among the wounded, Nurse Campbell heard the same story of Saint George. French soldiers had also seen a figure on a white horse leading the charge—although they identified her as Joan of Arc. Were Allied soldiers really joined by an army of angels in August 1914? Few if any eyewitnesses are still alive to tell us. But the story of the Angel of Mons has survived to give hope to all soldiers in battle. Meg Belviso is a staff editor for ANGELS ON EARTH magazine. |
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As Long As I Remember: American
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This film examines the personal toll and legacy of the Vietnam War on three South Texas artists: visual artist Juan Farias, author Michael Rodriguez and poet/performance artist Eduardo Garza. The stories of these veterans and their families take us through a journey of their lives: growing up in the Mexican American community; their military service in Vietnam; their lives after the war. Through their stories we examine the role art plays in the sorting of memories, post-traumatic stress syndrome, activism and the current conflict in Iraq. We see the evolution of the lives of three Chicanos from young men thrown into a world surrounded by death, fear, and survival in Viet Nam to their present lives and their lifelong search for individual healing. As they allow us to enter some of the most intimate moments in their lives we begin to understand that their search for peace yields them with no definitive answers or solutions to their trauma. We come to an understanding of how cultura, familia, and art play an intricate and fundamental role in the lives of the men who today, decades later, still find themselves at war. The film will fill your senses with images of South Texas during the Vietnam War and the Chicano Civil Rights Movement to their present day lives and the vibrant Chicano Art scene in San Antonio. Funded by Humanities Texas funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, City of San Antonio Office of Cultural Affairs and Latino Public Broadcasting. best, -- Laura Varela www.varelafilm.org
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Washington, DC – Today, Congressman Henry Cuellar (TX-28) applauded the Department of Veterans Affairs for simplifying the application process for veterans filing for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) benefits and health care services. The new procedures, effective this week, will significantly reduce the information a veteran needs to submit when claiming PTSD. “This is a significant leap forward in supporting our nation’s veterans,” said Congressman Cuellar. “With these new rules, we help our service men and women get the health care and benefits they need and deserve, and we uphold our obligation to those who have so honorably served our nation.” The new rules will make it easier for veterans to get treatment and financial support for PTSD. Previously, veterans had to attribute a specific combat experience with their PTSD symptoms. Now, veterans are only required to provide evidence that they served in a war zone where conditions contributed to their post-traumatic stress. The VA expects that the new rule will reduce the amount of time it takes for a PTSD-related claim to be processed. More than 400,000 veterans currently receiving VA compensation benefits have service-connected PTSD. PTSD is a medically recognized anxiety disorder that is connected and developed by experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event such as possible death or serious injury. “This nation has a solemn obligation to the men and women who have honorably served this country and suffer from the often devastating emotional wounds of war,” said Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric K. Shinseki. “This final regulation goes a long way to ensure that Veterans receive the benefits and services they need.” To learn more about this new benefit for veterans, please visit: http://www1.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=1922 |
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Six years after Sgt. Rafael Peralta saved several lives by smothering an enemy grenade in Iraq, his brother Ricardo follows in his footsteps by becoming a Marine. 'I have big shoes to fill,' he says. 
Marine Pfc. Ricardo Peralta, 19, center, graduates from infantry school on Friday. He will now report to a battalion in Twentynine Palms. (Allen J. Schaben, Los Angeles Times / July 12, 2010)
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'Aztec Eagles' A Dying Breed; Only 10 of 300 Still Living |
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ANAHEIM, Calif., Oct. 21, 2003 – The more than 300 Mexicans who volunteered to help the United States kick the Japanese out of the Pacific islands during World War II are slowing passing on. Only 10 of them are still around. Only three of them -- two combat pilots and one ground crew member -- were well enough to travel here from Mexico to be honored for their contributions by the Defense Department on Oct. 16 and 17. They were former "Aztec Eagles" pilots, retired Mexican air force Col. Carlos Garduno and Capt. Miguel Moreno Arreola, and ground crewman former Capt. Manuel Cervantes Ramos. "Only 10 of us are still alive," Garduno said sadly during an interview at the Hyatt Regency Orange County Hotel here during DoD's Hispanic American Heritage Month observance. |
| The Mexican war hero said the Mexican Fighter Squadron 201, "El Escuadron 201," was composed of more than 300 volunteers – 36 experienced pilots and the rest ground crewmen. The ground crewmen were electricians, mechanics, radiomen, and armament – "all the specialties that are required for a typical fighter squadron," the colonel said.
The Aztec Eagles were attached to the U.S. Army Air Forces 5th Air Force's 58th Fighter Group during the liberation of the main Philippine island of Luzon in the summer of 1945. The pilots flew P-47D "Thunderbolt" single-seat fighter aircraft carrying out tactical air support missions.
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Patriots Ten in Tennessee Spain's Involvement in the American Revolutionary War Gaspar Falcon SAR Patriot Approval |
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PARK wreath laying: Group Photo of the U.S. Spanish Embassy folk alongside
NSDAR members and Spanish Task Force members. Thank you to Molly
Ann Long de Fernandez de Mesa, the attractive redhead in the first row in
the copper-colored suit for sending the photo. Molly is DAR Spanish Task Force
Chairman in Spain. Standing to her right in the black hat and
white jacket is Donna Santistevan, Registrar General and Past
Spanish Task Force Chairman, she is the United States DAR National Lineage
chair. The gentlemen from the left are, General Rafael Vaquero, Agregado de Defensa a la Embajada de
España, Army uniform, and
Sr. D. Camilo Villarino, Consejero Político Embajada de España, in the
dark blue Ambassadors uniform. Text of standing memorial to Bernardo De Galvez
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GALVEZ
2010 WREATH LAYING GÁLVEZ
PARK - VIRGINIA AVENUE NW & 22ND STREET NW, WASHINGTON,
DC INVOCATION:
Florence Patton Corresponding
Secretary General
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Molly Long STF NVC
The
Spanish Task Force is
honored to be here again at Galvez Park
to present this wreath. WE need to go back
to 2004 when the Mexico State Society with Joy Cardinal as State
Regent and Past STF Chairman Jeannine Kallal started this
initiative. I
wish to thank Joan MacInnes
Hunter, National Chairman, Lineage Research Committee, ALL the
Spanish Task Force members for all their research and promotion they
have done for the Spanish Patriots; especially my sister, Anthony
Startz and many other Texas Daughters For all their support.
Tyler Hancock who has spent many hours preparing research information
to members. The staff of the Registrar General’s office, especially
Terry Ward and Darryn
Lickliter. ADDRESS: Bernardo
Galvez Wreath Laying Speech We have all learned
about the role France played in our American Revolution but few
Americans are aware of Spain’s deep involvement.
At the time of the American Revolution, Spain owned or claimed
all the land of the present United States west of the Mississippi
River including the port of New Orleans.
From 1776 until war was declared against Great Britain in 1779,
Spain covertly sent money, muskets, munitions, medicine and military
supplies in great amounts to aid the Americans. Bernardo de Galvez was
a young colonel, 31 years of age, when he was appointed Governor of
Louisiana and the new Governor quickly gave signs of wholehearted
sympathy for the American Revolution by not allowing the British Navy
to operate in the Mississippi waters or in New Orleans. In the spring of 1777,
he seized eleven British ships, ordered the British subjects to leave
Louisiana within fifteen days, sent General Charles Lee 9,000 pounds
of gunpowder and remitted food and military supplies to Fort Arkansas. After Spain formally
declared war against Great Britain, Spain’s King Carlos III
commissioned Galvez to conduct military campaigns against the British
along the Gulf Coast. Galvez
raised an army and a navy and defeated the British in many battles up
and down the Mississippi River and the Gulf Coast including decisive
battles at Natchez, Mobile and Pensacola .
With the British blockade of the Atlantic coast, these water
systems served as a veritable lifeline to the forces of George
Washington and George Rogers Clark and left the British with no bases
in the Gulf. Galvez’s
significance to the United States is obvious.
Galvez’s activities diverted British men, supplies and
attention away from the east coast and removed the British threat from
the south and west of the Colonies.
Galvez also provided De Grasse’s French fleet with one-half
million pesos which the French used to re-provision their ships at
Havana prior to the battle of Yorktown. Spain’s victories
under his leadership made the British defeat more definitive and
helped the United States gain maximum concessions during the
subsequent peace negotiations in Paris. In
recognition of his work and help to the American cause, George
Washington took him to his right in the 4th of July parade
and the American Congress cited Galvez for his aid during the
Revolution. So who was this man
who accomplished these amazing feats? Bernardo was born to a
privileged family of wealth and some renown in a mountain village in
Malaga, Spain in 1746. He
studied military sciences at the Academy de Avila and at the age of 16
participated in the Spanish invasion of Portugal.
He arrived in New Spain in 1762 and fought the Apaches.
He returned to Europe and went to France where he learned to
speak French which served him well when he became governor of
Louisiana. He became a
professor at the military academy that he had attended earlier.
Then in 1777, he was sent to the large territory that later
became the Louisiana Purchase. He
married Marie Felice de Saint-Maxent D’Estrehan, a young Criolla
widow. They had three
children. After the war,
he became the governor and captain general of Cuba, and then filled
the position of his father as Viceroy of New Spain.
In 1786, he became ill and on November 30, he died at the age
40. The Mexico State
Society of the DAR marked his grave in 2002. This statue of
Bernardo de Galvez was given by the Spanish Sculptor Juan Avalos and
was presented by Juan Carlos I, King of Spain to the United States
Government during our country’s Bicentennial in 1976. SPEECH:
BERNARDO
DE GALVEZ Although it is true that Spain remained officially neutral at the beginning of the American Revolution, it is not less certain that Spain became soon a great ally of the American colonies, second only to France. The role played by Spain during the American Revolution can neither be omitted nor overlooked. The aid that Spain provided to the cause of the American Revolution in its initial stages was not limited to financial contributions; it was not limited either to just allowing the American privateers to find sanctuary at Spanish ports. The United States received also military help on American soil itself through the Spanish government of Louisiana. In May 1776 (before the Declaration of Independence had even taken place) General Charles Lee wrote to the then Governor of Louisiana, Unzaga, explaining that he was the second-in-command under General Washington and that in this capacity he requested help from the Spanish Governor in order to continue the war. When Unzaga was appointed Captain General of Caracas, a young coronel, 31 years old, named Bernardo de Galvez, became Governor of Louisiana on February 1, 1777. The new Governor quickly gave signs of wholehearted sympathy for the American Revolution by not allowing the British Navy to operate in the Mississippi waters or in the mouth of the river and by opening the port of New Orleans to trade with rebel colonists. Galvez went even further, seizing British ships and ordering British subjects to leave Louisiana. He also sent General Lee food and military supplies. Under Bernardo de Galvez, Louisiana became a refuge for the American rebels as well as a post of military supplies for the Continental Army. When finally on July 21, 1779, official news of the declaration of war on Great Britain by Spain reached New Orleans, Bernardo de Galvez immediately organized a small army of 1500 men for the purpose of attacking the British fort at Manchac. After a very difficult march, they arrived at the confluence of the Iberville and Mississippi rivers, and attacked Fort Butte by surprise; the fort surrendered. In October, Baton Rouge, the most important British fort in the south, surrendered to Galvez after two hours of fighting and Fort Panmure, in Natchez, fell next on October 25, 1779, along with some other villages on the left bank of the Mississippi. On February 25, 1780, Galvez, accompanied just by 200 men, sailed to Mobile and courageously seized Fort Charlotte on March 14. One year later Galvez sailed from Havana with a small fleet in order to take the city of Pensacola. Facing strong resistance by the enemy, he decided to proceed alone with his small private ship, the Galvestown, defying the British artillery, and eventually entering the bay in spite of the fire he was getting, saying “that those with honor and courage follow me”. The British garrison of Pensacola surrendered on May 9, 1781, and Governor Galvez received the title of Count of Galvez for the courage displayed in this historic feat, with a coat-of-arms in which the bergantine Galvestown appears at the top with the motto “Yo solo” (I Alone). Governor Galvez not only destroyed the British plan to take the Mississippi Valley, but he effectively help Americans in the Ohio Valley by winning over the Indian tribes who stopped attacking the Continental Army. Without the intervention of Governor Galvez, it seems reasonable to think that the King’s Mountain Battle (October 7, 1780) would never have taken place; nor the changing course of the war in the south, where Lord Cornwallis surrendered on October 17, 1781. This statue offered by
the King of Spain, Juan Carlos I, to the United States on June 2,
1776, represents, in words of the King Himself, “a permanent memory
of the bloodshed by Spanish soldiers in defense of the American
cause.” As the Quixote rightly says, speaking to his companion, “liberty, Sancho, my friend, is one of the most precious gifts that Heaven has bestowed on mankind; all the treasures the earth contains in its bosom or the ocean within its depths cannot be compared with it. For liberty as well as for honor, man ought to risk even his life”. Honor, then Ladies and
Gentleman, is certainly due to the brave and the few who have abided
by these principles, as Galvez did. Mary
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That U. S. History ignores Hispanics’ role in the U.S. War of Independence is no great secret. What it is, though, is downright disrespectful to millions of America’s Spanish-surnamed who have passed on not knowing of their ancestors’ tremendous sacrifices for this nation. Frankly, these poor folks never really celebrated a Fourth of July fully aware that it was because of these endeavors that such a day existed in the history of their country. But it’s about time America hears it bluntly: without Hispanic intervention at this crucial time in our country’s young life, we would not be celebrating anything on July 4th of any year. I’m not a wagering person, but I’m willing to bet a few greenbacks that few Americans recognize some Hispanic names that helped alter the course of the American Colonies: Juan de Miralles (Trailhon), Francisco de Miranda and (Governor/General) Bernardo de Galvez. Not to mention the fact that it was Hispanic women who raised what is the equivalent of $28 million today, in Spanish silver dollars, so that the America’s independence effort was secured. However, these same incognizant citizens are ready to celebrate the independence of their country without really knowing much about the trials and tribulations the Father of Their Country suffered to secure their freedom. Oh, they might tell you about the winter at Valley Forge or Gen. Washington crossing the Delaware River. But if you ask them to name names and cite examples of bravery by non-Americans that helped Gen. Washington overtake the Red Coats, they’ll be stomped. Relax, it’s not their (or your) fault. Most, if not all, of the culpability can be found in the way U.S. History has been taught semester after semester for centuries. “Our (history) textbooks are so Anglocentric that they might be considered Protestant history.” say Diane Ravitch and Chester E. Finn Jr. , in their book, What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know? A Report on the First National Assessment of History and Literature. That roughly translates to saying that the history taught in our schools, is fundamentally, a ‘white-man’s-history.’ The danger in adhering to such texts is that there is no room to talk about anybody else’s contributions, no matter how important they may have been. And once left out, always left out because history books, like history itself, repeat themselves. It’s cheaper to re-print than it is to research and rewrite. No matter what any school textbook executive may tell you, they’re in it for the money. So, who was Juan de Miralles ? At the time of the Revolutionary War, the Colonists possessed a ragtag military machine at best. Enter Don Juan, he a diplomat under the patronage of the French Ambassador, following the instructions of the Spanish Court. Don Juan, a prominent and wealthy Spaniard business man living in Cuba, was a fervent defender of independence. Soon he made several visits to the American rebels in which he offered military and financial support. He was able to gain trust, and develop a close friendship with the future first president of the United States. Don Juan immediately hit it off with the inner circle of Washington. He ended up establishing a business relationship with Robert Morris, the Philadelphia merchant who gave his fortune to the revolution and served as Washington's principal finance minister. Through his Cuban connections, the American army received regular and desperately needed supplies of sugar, flour, uniforms and arms. Don Juan himself lent money to several continental towns as part of the war effort against the British. Unfortunately, in the brutal cold winter of 1779, Don Juan contracted pneumonia in Morristown, New Jersey while visiting with the troops. During his illness, he was attended by Washington's personal physician as well as his wife, Martha. While under care at the Washington home in Morristown, the General’s amigo passed away. After his death in April of 1780, Juan dc Miralles became the first foreigner to be given a full military funeral in the United States, although the country had yet to win the war and be recognized internationally as an independent country. Washington, deeply hurt by his friend’s demise, wrote to the Spanish governor of Cuba as well as the Miralles’ widow extolling the wonderful qualities of his newfound friend and political supporter. Imagine, if you will, how much more today's white -America would understand and appreciate Spanish-surnamed residents if they knew this and other parts of U.S. history that remain hidden. It boggles ones imagination how much farther this country would be in race relations at this point of our history. As for the other personalities and accomplishments mentioned, why not invite your children to help you do the research and discover these Hispanic heroes and heroines together. There’s nothing like knowing some real U.S. History for the remaining Fourths of July in your life. Andy Porras andyporras@yahoo.com A must read period of history.. Juan Marinez |
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| In addition to being on Knox County’s Fragile 15 list, Admiral Farragut's Birthplace is now on the Tennessee Preservation Trust’s 2010 “Ten in Tennessee” endangered list. Ethiel Garlington, Director of Preservation Field Services for Knox Heritage, sent me this news today, along with a link to the Tennessee Preservation Trust’s website
http://www.tennesseepreservationtrust.org/ten
. The Ten in Tennessee is a roster of some of the state's most endangered historic sites. Begun in 2001, this successful program each year highlights ten endangered places across the state to help garner support for saving threatened historic resources. A committee made up of grass-roots and professional preservationists from across the state meets to choose the list each spring. Ethiel Garlington Director of Preservation Field Services | Knox Heritage (p) 865-523-8008 | (f) 865-523-0938 Preservation field services provided by Knox Heritage are assisted by a Partners in the Field challenge grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation. 1. A PowerPoint link is available from the “Ten in Tennessee” site. It is very large and takes a while to download, but these are the slides Farragut’s Birthplace that are included in the PowerPoint:
2. Doug Bataille, senior director of Knox County Parks and Recreation, confirmed with TVA that Stoney Point Farm and the adjacent 15 acres that is also held by the Stoney Point subdivision owner will not ever be eligible for permits that would allow a private dock or other access. TVA spokespeople told Doug last week that TVA has “flowage easement” along the entire property line, and because of a TVA deed restriction, this frontage cannot now or in the future be developed for any purpose other than public Knox County recreational use. Doug Bataille plans to speak with the property owner and her attorney to discuss plans that the county has for waterfront improvements. Doug (http://knoxcounty.org/countymayor/staff/bataille.php) can be reached at doug.bataille@knoxcounty.org.
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| Clifford Normand wrote: I would like to let the Canary Islanders know that the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) applications for Harrison Joseph Neese and Joseph Scott Neese have been approved by the Genealogy Committee of the SAR effectively approving their applications. The importance of this application approval is that for Gaspard Falcon a militia list from the qualifiing period has not been located; however he is shown on the ships from the Canary Islands lists as "under arms". We used the ships list along with information that he was in Louisiana after the ship arrived and also information from Gilbert Din's book that indicated that Galvez deceided that he had enough soldiers and assigned the men to land to supply food under the condition that they were members of the Militia. This evidence should allow additional individuals wishing to join the SAR and have their Patriot Ancestor recognized. I feel that the same evidence should apply to Daughters of the American Revolution; however, they may have different acceptance criteria. I would be willing to work with some individual wishing to apply to the DAR under Gaspar Falcon or another Valenzuela Patriot in assisting with an application to assure the link. Clifford Normand LASSAR Registrar 15131 Championship Dr. Baton Rouge, LA 70810-0342 225-769-6444 |
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| Mexico became a country when it gained independence from Spain in 1821. However, for almost three hundred years it is New Spain and its citizen’s Spanish subjects. In 1835, the Mexican State of Tejas declares independence from the new nation of Mexico. Nonetheless, to this day, Spanish roots are deeply entrenched in the histories and composition of both Mexico and Texas. The political, military and powerful elite families from New Spain begin this history and this story. Much data and legends exist on the Oil tycoons and the cattle barons of Texas. Nevertheless, these men are mere latecomers in Texas history. Under the leadership of the Silver Magnate, Governor Juan de Oñate, Spanish Colonization of what is now the United States began in 1598. Nine years before the English established the first settlement at Jamestown and twenty-two years before the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, this early trailblazer used his immense wealth to finance an entire entrada into New Mexico. This expedition included his son, Cristóbal de Oñate, then eight-years old and a commissioned lieutenant governor and captain general, the two Zaldivar brothers, Juan and Vicente, and Oñate’s nephews. Ten Franciscan priests carrying crosses fronted 400 men, many with their families. The encumbered cortege entered New Mexico, via El Paso, with two luxury coaches, belonging to Oñate, eighty-three wagons and seven thousand heads of livestock. Dressed in full armor plate, these first Europeans that settle New Mexico shape the destiny of what is now the American Southwest. Eighty-two years later, the descendents of these colonies flee the Albuquerque area in what history calls the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The refugees settle in El Paso and Monterrey, Mexico. The families of Duran y Chavez of El Paso, and, generations later, San Antonio, Texas, and the De Las Casas of Monterrey, New Spain, are portrayals in this flight. Of these two families, later generation ally by marriage to the Urrutia family. In addition, through the intricate web of allied families of Monterrey one finds numerous descendents of the Onate-Zaldivar family in the genealogy of the Captain’s descendents of the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas. Northern New Spain By the late 1600’s, Florida, Texas and the Southwest belonged to the vast empire of Spain. José de Urrutia and Diego Ramón, governor of Coahuila, New Spain from 1691 to 1698, exemplify the “movers and shakers” of this new land. These two influential men and their families settled in the region of Coahuila. Captain José de Urrutia was born in the province of Guipúzcoa, Spain, on or about 1678. He and his brother Toribio came to the Americas before 1691. Little information exists on their early years in and about New Spain, but by 1691, Jose, a mere youth, accompanies Dón Domingo Terán de los Ríos, into an expedition into Texas. Terán had been in the Spanish service in Peru for twenty years. In 1681, he came to Mexico as a deputy of the consulate of Seville. Because of his successes in quelling Indian disturbances, his instructions included establishing seven missions among the Tejas Indians. At this time the Spanish military established a garrison near the Neches River, a boundary stream forming the county lines in what is now East Texas and the Louisiana border. In the winter of 1693, the Tejas Indians turned hostile which forced the garrison into a tortuous withdrawal from Texas. It was on this fateful date that José de Urrutia met with an accident on the San Marcos River, (but which scholars now believe to have been either the Colorado River or the Navidad River). The San Marcos River flows southeast for seventy-five miles, forming the boundary between Gonzales and Caldwell counties, before reaching its mouth on the Guadalupe River, two miles west of Gonzales. Forced to remain among the friendly Kanohatinos, Tohos, and Xarames Indians that inhabited this area, Captain Jose and four soldiers remained for an extended period. He soon gained the respect of these tribes by quickly learning their languages and becoming intimately acquainted with their customs. This earned him the title of "captain general" and soon afterwards, he oversaw the activities of all the nations hostile to the Apaches Indians. Under his leadership, he conducted several extensive campaigns against the fierce and hostile Apache. By the early 1700’s a band of “nomadic hunter and gatherers”, the Comanche, began migrating south and they showed up in the Texas panhandle and in New Mexico. It was this migration that would drive the Apaches out of the High Plains. Only after their arrival on the Plains did the tribe come to be known as Comanche, a name derived from the Ute word Komántcia, meaning "enemy". This fact alone tells the reader a great deal about these warriors. Like the Spaniards, the Comanche were a new addition to Texas. They came from Wyoming and had once been part of the Shoshone Indians. (The Comanche and the Shoshone share a common language). Historical data says that the Comanche acquired their first horses around 1680. It is interesting to note that in an ironic twist of fate, the Spaniards, in an earlier century, introduced the horse into the Americas. Once the Comanche had horses they learned to use them, thereby enabling this nomadic tribe to be more mobile in hunting and in warfare. As their migration continued, the Comanche used their skill with horses to strike swiftly and overcome their opponents. The numerous accounts of the depredations and murders inflicted by the Comanche on the local Indian population as well as on the Spanish featured prominently in the every day life of the settlers of San Antonio and its missions. The Comanche have distinguished themselves as the finest light cavalry in the world with the exception of the Cheyenne Indians, which out classed them. Even today, one can well imagine the Indian war cries that terrified my early ancestors. By his own statement, Captain Jose claims to have lived amongst the Indians for seven years. When Captain José rejoined his countrymen remains unknown, but by 1696, he had returned to New Spain. There he held a prominent military position with the Spanish government. To promote trade with the local Indians and the Spanish of New Spain, in 1714 a French cavalier, Lieutenant Louis Juchereau de Saint Denis, established a trading post that grew into the town of Natchitoches, Louisiana. It was a short time later that several overland highways met at Natchitoches, including the Natchez Trace from the east and the Camino Real (The King’s Highway) from New Spain. Natchitoches, recognized as the oldest permanent settlement in Louisiana, plays a major role in the histories of both Texas and Louisiana, and given notoriety by the filming of the movie “Steel Magnolias”. St. Denis presented himself to the Indians of East Texas and revealed his plan to go into Mexico. The Indians asked St. Denis if he would seek their beloved “captain general”. This illustrates how completely Captain Jose endeared himself to the Indians. St. Denis did go to Mexico and found himself under a “pleasant house arrest” while Spanish officials awaited instructions from Mexico City on what to do with “a foreigner bearing goods banned by Spanish mercantile restrictions.” The Spanish Crown enacted an order prohibiting entry of foreign traders or their merchandise into any Spanish territory. St. Denis, however, used this occasion to court and wins a promise of marriage to the Doña Maria Manuela de Sanchez Navarro. The beautiful Manuela, as referenced in numerous accounts, is the granddaughter of Dona Feliciana Camacho y Botello, and the step granddaughter of Major Diego Ramon. The union guaranteed St. Denis a successful outcome with the Spanish Viceroy, who later appointed him conductor of supplies for the planned Ramon expedition to Texas. In 1721, St. Denis became the commander of Fort St. Jean Baptiste, located near the mouth of Bayou Amulet. When Manuela died, April 16, 1758, the annals of Natchitoches record that she was the wealthiest woman in Louisiana. Northwestern State University of Louisiana now occupies the property of her estate. Throughout the parishes of Louisiana, the genealogist can find the descendants of the union between St. Denis and Sanchez. Captain José married twice. The first occurred on January 7, 1697 to Doña Antonia Ramón. Doña Antonia was the daughter of Governor Dón Diego Ramón and the Doña Feliciana Camacho y Botello. The marriage ceremony performed at the parish church, Santiago Apostol, in the silver mining town of Monclova, in the state of Coahuila in Mexico. Captain José and Antonia had one daughter, Antonia, who later married Dón Luis Antonio Menchaca. The Menchacas settled in San Antonio, and in 1753, Don Luis earned the appointment and title of the commander of San Antonio de Bexar. They left their own unique mark in Texas history. After the death of his first wife during childbirth, Dón José married the Doña Rosa Flores y Valdez; the daughter of Dón Juan Flores y Valdez and Doña Josefa de Hoyos y de la Garza Falcon. Dona Rosa’s families are descendents of the original Conquistadors of Coahulia and Nuevo Leon in New Spain. This marriage most likely took place in Saltillo. From the union they had four daughters and six sons, including a son named Turbico de Urrutia, who would later succeed him as captain of the presidio de Bexar. Their children, Rosa Micaela, married Dón Pedro Jose de Godoy; Cathalina, married Dón Jose de Plaza; Juana married Dón Ignacio Gonzalez de Inclán, our paternal grandfather (X6). When widowed, her second marriage was to Dón Pedro Mariano de Ocón y Trillo; (Note:Don Pedro Mariano de Ocon y Trillo first marriage was to Dona Maria Josefa Flores de Abrego y Valdez. From this union a daughter, Dona Luisa Maria Magdalena de Ocon y Trillo married Don Joseph Bartholome Seguin Flores. Their son, Don Jose Santiago Seguin y Ocon was the father of Don Juan Jose Maria Erasmo de Jesus Seguin. He has the distinguish of being the f ather to the political and military figure of the Texas Revolution and the Republic of Texas, Lt. Col. Juan Nepomuceno Seguin), Ana Gertrudis Josefina, married Dón Antonio Nicolas de Treviño Gutierrez; Captain Toribio de Urrutia, married Doña Ana Maria de Farias y Flores de Abrego and Doña Maria Josefa Flores de Valdez; Joaquin married Doña Maria Josefa Hernández Longoria; Pedro married Doña Gertrudis Flores y Valdez; Manuel died young and never married; Ignacio Cayetano married Doña Rosa Sánchez Navarro y Gomez; Miguel married Doña Clara Cantu. On March 1, 1700, the new Governor of Coahulia was Dón Francisco Cuervo de Valdez a knight of the Order of Santiago. (He would later serve as the Governor of New Mexico). To help establish the Mission San Francisco Solano, Cuervo de Valdez commissioned Dón Jose’s father-in-law, Major Diego Ramón, now the former Governor, the commander of the presidio de San Juan Bautista del Rio Grande. Major Ramón commissioned other frontiersmen and together they enter the regions of Texas. This mission, the predecessor of the Alamo, was later relocated and renamed. On July 23, 1733, Dón José now had forty years experience with the Indians of Coahuila, Nuevo León, and Texas. He earned the commission as the Captain and commander of the presidio of San Antonio de Bexar. This post suited him well, for Dón José was the most knowledgeable on Indian affairs of all the New World Spaniards. His new residence was the old Comandancia that today is known as the Spanish Governors’ Palace in San Antonio, Texas. Of note: The Governor never resided there. This building always served as an administrative office or for official ceremonies. From 1734 to 1738, a succession of Apache raids resulted in a great loss of lives and livestock. Situated in a volatile area, the inhabitants of Bexar lived in constant fear and some families moved into the boundaries of the city. The situation worsen to the point that in the winter of 1739 Captain Jose led a campaign against the Apache Indians in the San Saba region (now known as located in the Texas “Hill Country” and boasts the title “Pecan Capital of the World”). He reached in this campaign the same point that years earlier another Spaniard by the name of Dón Juan Antonio Bustillo y Ceballos had reached in 1732. This campaign momentarily defeated the Apache and brought a short period of peace and stability to the area. It would not be long after that the Apache and the Spanish would find themselves warring with the Comanche. In 1743, the first report of the Comanche was sent to the viceroy. Captain Jose’s many connections in Coahulia, Nuevo Leon, and New Spain’s capital city Mexico (Mexico City) are acknowledged by the fact that he was a friend and confidant to the powerful Marquis of San Miguel de Aguayo, Dón Joseph Ramón de Azlor y Virto de Vera and that he had a business venture with the merchant, Dón Juan de Angulo of Mexico City. On September 25, 1735, Captain Jose and Juan drafted a contract or a power of attorney (POA) where Jose had the authority to collect 350 pesos a year from 40 of his men’s salaries. Juan in turn would supply them with their necessary needs. This POA document, of particular interest to a genealogist, contains the roster of the soldiers that were garrison in San Antonio. An enthusiast can find housed in the Spanish Archives Collection at the Bexar County Courthouse a copy of the POA. The San Fernando Catholic Church records of February 18, 1738 note that Captain José gave 100 pesos towards the construction of San Fernando Church. This church was named after the thirteenth century Spanish monarch, Ferdinand III. At eighteen years of age, the young king led his army to defeat the Moors and reestablished Christianity worship in Castile, Spain. In 1671, Pope Clement X canonized K
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Romero Family Reunion Brief Historical Briefs from Mercy Movie of Antonio Zapata Vicki's Legacy Lives On: An Historical Account About San Gabriel Indians, and About Vicki's Spanish and Indian Heritage |
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| I have always listened to my family stories, I still remember our paternal grandfather's, he was a storyteller. He was born in 1868 and passed on 1968, he lived to be 100 years old. I am the kind of person that talks to my kids and grandkids about family. (The one on the photo is mom's dad). I am the family historian as they say. I was little but I do remember my grandfathers'. All my family had so much love for each other. This is a true story. My father's mother was French Mexican. My great-grandmother had a few kids with her hustand, she was a maid and worked for a French Mexican sort of wealthy family in the city of Zacatecas. The family son raped my great-grandma, she became pregnant and that's how our paternal grandmother was born. Great-grandma's husband gave our grandma his last name. It was the talk of the town in the late 1800's. I think that maybe it was love affair.? My father and grandfather knew the secret and so many people they say. By no means the family were born in France, they were descendants of French families. Both my grandmothers, Petra Ramirez and Guadalupe Robles died when they were 30 years old, some kind of epidemic in Mexico. My dad lost his mother, two little sisters on the same month, a 6 month old baby and a three year old. (same disease). Our mom also lost her mother the same year. Dad was 10 and mom was 8 years old. Somehow they fell in love many years later... I found all the documents at the Family History Center by ordering the films. I also have grandma and her two little girls death document. The three of them died on August 1916. My dad's older brother Rafael joined the Revolution, in fact his two younger sisters joined as well, Maria and Juanita. Maria is the one that first immigrated to California and helped dad. Bartola became an excellent teacher in Zacatecas. Going back to the story, Rafael was murdered by a General, in turn our Aunt Maria, found the General and shot him. This was the horrible Revolution. Maria went to Jail but grandpa hired a lawyer and she was free, she did not stay long there. The General lost his life. I thought about it and maybe Maria was afraid for her life and escape to California? Our dad talked a lot about this story and sometimes we could see a tear and sadness on his face. He always talked about his older brother Rafael, he was only 17 years old when he was murdered, he never forgot his mother and his two little sisters either. After the riots in Los Angeles, my parents bought a nice Spanish style house in Huntington Park, CA. They were one of the first Hispanics to move there. I am sharing one of the grandma's, mom's mother was tall with blue eyes. We don't have a picture of dad's mother, but I am sending you a photo of my dad's younger sister, she was a teacher in Zacatecas. I don't know if you already seen it. The photo of grandma with an older man well he's my maternal grandpa, we just had the pictures together. When she was a young girl, I don't know if she was married when the picture was taken. I guess they dressed different at the time. Grandpa's photo was taken way, way later. Father: Marcelino R. Bautista (worked in the Railroad, Bracero in the 1940’s) Construction worker Mother: Anastacia Nuñez (seamstress) Paternal grandparents Tiburcio Muro Bautista Petra Arteaga Ramirez Maternal grandparents: Juan Flores Nuñez Guadalupe Nava Robles Brothers and sisters: Victoria, Henry (1934-2005), Andrea Petra, Modesta, Lupe (1940-1957), Esther, Charley and Jess Husband: Joseph Olvera Jr. Children: Lisamarie Janet Gabriel (1974-1974) two days old Elizabeth Michael Monique Grandchildren: Lisamarie’s children: Crystalmercymarie, Jacqueline, Bryan and Ashley Janet’s children: Gabriel, Jacob and Maya Mercy |
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| http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ZZ/fza3.html Very interesting link. Do you remember the movie of the 1950's of Viva Zapata? This was a movie on Antonio Zapata. I was in high school then I had no idea of the history as I do now. He was not in our text books. Looks like there were a lot of heroes to come out of Guerrerero, and to think of the many times that I went there with my family as a child to go meet with my uncle. Guerrero is so full of history. At the time I had no knowledge that my father's land was that close to the border, as you know how it was in the old days, especially for the women. We have a lot of history and roots in northern Mexico and Starr County. As you know, father's land was in Nuevo Leon and went on to border the state of Tamps. Mex. and the reason I am mentioning this now is because I believe that it will probably tie it with history of battles. if I only knew then what I know now. but as you know, I did not see the property until father died, and now it is sold. my grandmother's brother (paternal) used to say that in the property there was an old stone house that still had bullet holes but that is all I remember. This land was a big land grant and the family sold it and then father bought a lot of it back in the 1940's. I know that during the probition period there was a lot of runners going thru to the U.S. and my great uncle used to tell stories, as it was so big, you could get lost in it. Today you could land a helicopter without any problems. of course a plane too if there was a clear area. I only saw it once. This land is like the Fish that got away, but with all that is happening in Mexico, We could not have handled it. but going back to battles, I wish I could remember more on my uncles stories on the land. I do remember that they used it to graze cattle and it had 3 lakes and it was very seclulded and out of no where they would hear a baby cry. As I say, I visited the place, there is no way a baby could have been there, yet when my uncles would go they would hear the cry of a baby. It was rumored that was the sign of a buried treasure. As I was growing up, I heard that one day, a poor person of the villa of Paras became a person of Means, and it was rumored that it was possible that he may have found something on the land, as the crying baby sounds stopped forever. I guess we will never know but it is interesting folk lore. Before I sign off, Have you ever read on the internet that it is rumored that Pancho Villa's saddle bags full of gold are buried in Duval County, possibly San Diego? Good old stories. Margaret Garza Garcia |
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| At a meeting with the Los Californianos in Oceanside years ago, Victoria
(Vicki) Duarte Cordova and I met. After the banquet dinner, all the club
members met outside in the hotel's patio. Vicki and I were standing next to one
another so we introduced ourselves. I told her that I was from the San
Francisco Bay Area, but that I was originally from the San Fernando Valley, and
Pacoima. Vicki was friendly and said that she was from Duarte, and as a child,
had resided in Pacoima. I asked Vicki if she knew Bert Colima, the professional
boxer, and, yes, she had known Bert. Bert had a big, fancy car and drove his
friends all over town, Los Angeles. It was getting late in the evening, so
everyone was leaving the patio to retire for the night. Vicki and her friends invited me to play a hand of cards called Malita(?). That was the beginning
of a wonderful friendship with Vicki, for me and my mother, Evangeline Romero
Gutierrez Alcaraz. My mother, Evangeline, told me that her dad, my grandpa Ben,
played that same card game! Vicki and her mother lived in Pacoima in about
1919-1925(?). They lived on Osborne Street, a short distance from the main
highway San Fernando Road. They lived next door to Eleanor Tapia and her
parents. Cousin Gus Romero married Eleanor and their daughter's name was Virginia. Vickie later sent pictures to me of her friends, the Tapias of
Pacoima. Vicki urged me to research my roots, which I continue to do, even to this day. Vicki was researching the San Gabriel Indians and volunteered her time as a docent at the Duarte Historical Museum. Yesterday, I found an article that was published in the Los Angeles Times about an interview given by Victoria Duarte Cordova, written 17 July 1999 (today is also Saturday, 17 July, only 2010!!). The article (see below) is an historical account about the San Gabriel Indians, and about Vicki's Spanish and Indian heritage. Although Vicki passed away in January 2005, her legacy lives on and she continues to inspire us all. Hope you all enjoy reading the two articles concerning prima Victoria Duarte Cordova of Duarte, California. See below web sites: Web site: http://www.latimes.com/HOME/NEWS/ASECTION/t000063607.html NATIVE-NEWS: In Search of the Lost Gabrielinos Web site: http://www.duartehistory.org/DiB-final-program DUARTE IN BRONZE Love, Lorri |
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7: SHHAR Monthly Meeting, Jalisco and Central Mexico Researching
Your Civil War Ancestors ~ Family Stories Concert Photos: Did You Miss the Fun? Concert Highlighting Four Decades of Chicano Music Santa Ana LULAC #147 Receives National Grant from Ford Motor Company for High School Drop-Out Prevention
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Announcing A New bilingual play "Benito Juarez y sus Hijas"
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You can almost make out the SA Fwy to the eastern city limits.
Fourth St runs east/west and is about the center. Tustin is below the hills. The old SA Bowl is bottom, left. You can probably make out the old Court House if you go east on Sixth (now Civic Center Dr). The water tower is at edge of photo on left. The Logan barrio is. . .well, near St Joseph Church. . . Hard to believe but this photo was taken 62 yrs ago when I was 10 walking up/down Fourth St. Santa Ana was as far as I ventured. . .1948 was a good year for Notre Dame. I remember that ground observer corps as me a couple buddies applied for it when I was in the 5th or 6th grade(at the super athletic factory of St Joseph’s of Santana) and they said we were too young. It sounds like I was lucky I was too young. |
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Your Civil War Ancestors ~ Family Stories By Rev. Dr. Gary Alan Dickey, M.Div., Ph.D., C.G., Dip. English History (Oxford)
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Gen.
W. S. Rosecrans Camp No. 2 Department
of California & Pacific Sons
of Union Veterans of the Civil War http://www.suvpac.org/camp2.html
Researching one’s Civil War ancestors is both interesting and
historical. Interesting
because they are our ancestors; historical because we learn so much more
from history when we study the context in which they were involved in
such a conflict as the Civil War.
Where do we start? The
first place is to get a good history on the Civil War and read about it.
Knowing the history helps us to know where to look when we begin
researching our ancestors. After
a few basics of the scope of the conflict is understood, it will get us
excited about our ancestors to understand that they were part of such a
pivotal moment in the history of our country.
The second place to start is with our ancestors. No,
not the one you think was in the Civil War. Rather,
to start with yourself and work backwards. Don’t
make the mistake of making conclusions based on assumptions or you may
end up in the wrong place with the wrong person.
Most of us start with a family story told by a parent or
grandparent: “Did you
know that great-grandpa was in the Civil War?” True
or not, family stories are the place to start. I
was always told that my great-grandfather, William G. Dickey, was a
Major in the Union Army and that he led his troops at the Battle of
Gettysburg where he was wounded in the charge of his men. Well,
yes and no. After I looked
his Civil War record up, I discovered he was a Sgt. Major, was never at
Gettysburg, and was wounded the last day of the war retreating from the
enemy position when a cannon ball burst near him giving him life-long
injuries from which he would die about 23 years after the war had
ceased.
So, family stories are the beginning but not the ending for
finding out the truth of your ancestor in the Civil War. Fading
memories, a desire to “polish up” the story a little bit, and just
plain confusion of facts can send one on a wild goose chase, but the
family stories are a vital part of beginning the search. Most
families have heard, “Grandpa was in the 121st Pennsylvania
Volunteers and served for three years.” Knowing
that tells you two important things — a unit number and a place. That
is the start for looking for records. Grandpa
may have actually been in the 118th Volunteers but now you
know to not look in New York records to start.
More to come. (Dr. Dickey is a Certified Genealogist through the Board of Certification for Genealogists in Washington, D.C. in the area of English Research and a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists. He is Senior Pastor of the United Methodist Church of Westlake Village, California and serves as Chaplain of the Gen. W. S. Rosecrans Camp No. 2, Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War. Besides genealogy and research he enjoys travelling and playing the bagpipes.) Thanks.
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 Santa Ana photographer Zenaida Garibay worked the audience at Delhi Center on Saturday, taking photos of many of the 300 people who attended a program on the history of Chicano music in Southern California. Harvey Reyes, president of the Orange County Mexican American Historical Society, served as emcee at the program on Chicano music at Delhi Center. It covered Southern California musicians and music from the 1940s to 1970s. Chicano music fans: 'Come on, let's go'. It was sponsored by the Orange County Mexican American Historical Society, with music from the 1940s to 1970s by The Recessions. Harvey Reyes, president of the society, says it's possible the concert will be staged again. "When we find some money or sponsors, it will happen again," he said in an email. You can see Garibay's photos with this column and more coverage of the event. Text by Ron Gonzales rgonzales@ocregister.com; photo courtesy of Zenaida Garibay This weekly notebook provides information about Orange County's Latino communities. http://www.ocregister.com/news/music-257779-program-american.html |
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Santa Ana LULAC #147 Receives National Grant from Ford Motor Company
for High School Drop-Out Prevention The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) National and Ford Motor Company have awarded the local Santa Ana LULAC Council #147 with an innovative 2-year education grant to combat the high school dropout rate in Santa Ana . 9th and 10th grade students will be encouraged to both finish high school successfully and transition with a STEM focus into a college or university. The LULAC/Ford Initiative is building on 15 years of experience that KidWorks has had working in the at-risk neighborhoods of central Santa Ana . Santa Ana LULAC has been involved with the academic concerns in the city of Santa Ana and central Orange County since 1946. Santa Ana LULAC will be collaborating with Santa Ana-based KidWorks Inc. to provide an after-school program in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) to students who are at-risk of dropping out of high school. Over the next two years, college-readiness workshops will focus on the exploration of STEM careers with an emphasis in self-esteem and self-discipline to prepare them for the rigorous schedule they will face in college. Participating students will also be enrolled in KidWorks after school programs that include tutoring, mentoring, parent engagement, leadership development, computer literacy, financial literacy, health education, character building, civic engagement and the creative arts. Nationally, ten $20,000 projects LULAC/Ford “Driving Dreams 2010” have been awarded (2-Arizona, 2-California, 1-Oklahoma, 4-Texas, and 1-Wisconsin). Santa Ana LULAC President Zeke Hernandez, members Jess and Nellie Saenz are scheduled to receive the award certificate at the 81st annual LULAC National Convention’s Presidential Banquet on July 16 in Albuquerque , New Mexico . The convention is on-going from July 12 through July 17. Established in 1946, Santa Ana LULAC Council #147 is the oldest council in California and is an affiliate of Orange County LULAC District#1. The League of United Latin American Citizens advances the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, housing, health and civil rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs operating at more than 700 LULAC councils nationwide. Since 1995, KidWorks has partnered with neighborhood residents, local agencies and outside supporters to impact poor and powerless neighborhoods and bring hope to families who are raising children in the midst of alarming social conditions. Sent by Zeke Hernandez zekeher@yahoo.com
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Multimedia Presentations by Gregorio Luke Chicano Moratorium Exhibit on View at L.A.'s Olvera Street 1970 Chicano Moratorium
Marches on Hector Tobar
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Multimedia Presentations by Gregorio Luke |
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Why Commemorate the Chicano Moratorium? by: Rosalio Muñoz |
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| Monday, March 8, 2010 Why commemorate the Chicano Moratorium in February? http://peoplesworld.org/why-commemorate-the-chicano-moratorium-in-february/ People familiar with the term "Chicano Moratorium," identify it with the date of August 29, 1970, when some 30,000 Chicanos and progressives marched through East Los Angeles against the Vietnam War. Most also identify it with the fatal "mistake" shooting of journalist Ruben Salazar by a county sheriff who was ostensibly quelling a riot. The August 29 1970 Chicano Moratorium is an event that all the people of the United States should know about, but don't. Most histories pay little attention to Mexican Americans and ignore events like the moratorium. When it is mentioned the focus is on Salazar's death or rioting by angry demonstrators, but not on the sheriff's attack, and even less on why so many marched that day, which was the disproportionate burden and social costs of the unjust war on Chicanos/Mexican Americans. To get a better idea about why and how Chicanos organized their own peace demonstrations during the Vietnam War it is important to understand the moratorium as part of a movement, a cause that developed consciously and grew over time. The main reason August 29, 1970, national moratorium was so large was because over 20 othersmaller moratoriums had taken place beforehand. The most critical of those was held February 28, 1970, also in East Los Angeles. In my opinion February 28 was a decisive turning point in the Chicano antiwar movement. It rained relentlessly that day, over 2 inches, I believe, yet 5,000 Chicanos turned out and kept on marching to Laguna Park, which truly was a laguna (lake) that day. Hundreds if not thousands of shoppers on the parade route stopped, watched and cheered the passing marchers despite the downpour. It was the first Chicano demonstrations when a Chicana organization, Las Adelitas de Aztlan, marched in its own right,. Many units of the Brown Berets marched having come from Santa Barbara, Riverside, Oakland and San Diego. College MEChA groups marched with their banners. It could have been larger without the rain, but not more dramatic. The Chicano movement was mobilizing its communities en masse against
the unjust Vietnam war where Chicanos were dying at twice the rate of Perhaps just as important is that the dramatic march, the on-looking
crowd and inspiring rally were filmed and professionally developed into a people's documentary that truly made history. The moratorium
had 20 copies made that were shown hundreds and hundreds of times in barrio after barrio across the United States. When the film was shown
to 2,000 Chicano youth leaders at the Second Chicano Liberation Conference on March 28, 1970, at the Crusade for Justice in Denver,
they overwhelmingly voted to support a National Chicano Moratorium on August 29, 1970, in East Los Angeles with smaller local moratoriums
across the country organized to build for the national one. Some Chicanos who opposed the war in part felt that peace moratoriums were
a white middle class "thing," however the film dramatically showed
that Chicano moratoriums could be full of Chicano Power adding to all the people's power for peace.
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Chicano Moratorium Exhibit L.A.'s Olvera Street |
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An exhibit celebrating the upcoming 40th anniversary of a historic
Mexican American rally against the Vietnam War was open to the
public at Olvera Street in downtown Los Angeles, until July 25th
at the Mexican Cultural Center. The exhibit was sponsored by the sponsored by the 40th
Anniversary Commemoration Committee of the Chicano Moratoriums.
The exhibit included photographs, documents, paintings and videos documenting the social, economic and political conditions that led to the National Chicano Moratorium Against the Vietnam War march and rally in East Los Angeles. Photo: Rosalio Muñoz in 2002 with a silkscreen depicting him during the Chicano Moratorium. Credit: Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times
The Aug. 29, 1970, event was attended by about 30,000 people in
what was the high point of a movement that had been building for
several years. The rally, at an East L.A. park, exploded into
violence after sheriff's deputies and Chicano activists clashed
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An exhibit on the 40th anniversary of the antiwar protest offers a chance to look back at the roots of what is now a more united Los Angeles. The year Rosalío Muñoz got his Vietnam War draft notice was also a very good year for American cinema. It was the summer of 1969 and he spent hours in darkened L.A. movie theaters. "I saw 'Easy Rider,' 'Alice's Restaurant,' " he told me. "I'd sit in those theaters and do a lot of thinking." Movies featuring outlaws were then the vogue — " Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" was the big hit of the year. Muñoz eventually decided to resist the draft. He joined a movement whose climax was the Chicano Moratorium, an East L.A. antiwar march and civil rights rally on Aug. 29, 1970. That day was, at once, one of the most hopeful and tragic in the history of Los Angeles. Three people were killed, including Times columnist Ruben Salazar, who was struck by a tear gas canister fired by a sheriff's deputy. But a powerful spirit took root in the city. "After that, we felt we owned the streets," Muñoz said. "We got our voice." The idea that L.A.'s Latino barrios could remain a world separate and unequal from the rest of the city was dead forever. I spoke to Muñoz last week in a basement gallery downtown. All around him were photographs commemorating the moratorium's 40th anniversary. There are young men with raised fists who called themselves the Brown Berets. And a group of marching women known as Las Adelitas de Aztlan. A stylized portrait of Muñoz adorns a 1970 poster. Today young people learn the story of Muñoz and his generation of L.A activists almost exclusively in classes devoted to Mexican American history. It bothers me that this is so. If you look closely into that episode of L.A.'s past, you'll see it's impossible to separate Chicano history from white history or black history. It's all our history. "We're part of the democratic traditions of this country," Muñoz told me, referring to himself and the 30,000 others who rallied that day at an East L.A. park. By his own account, the young Rosalío was not a likely candidate to become part of a Chicano Studies syllabus. Now 64, he grew up in Highland Park when it was mostly white. His mother was a sixth-generation Mexican American and his father had a PhD. His friends were Italians and Anglos. He was known as Ross. "It was 'Happy Days,' " Muñoz said, referring to the TV sitcom set in the 1950s. Doug Smith, his friend and a future Times' reporter, nominated Ross to be student body president at Franklin High. Ross won. Later, in college, Muñoz studied European history. He didn't know much about the Chicano movement. "Muñoz, look in the mirror," a Chicano activist finally told him. "You're an Indian. And you will be part of our movement." After he was elected student body president at UCLA, he signed a pledge, along with hundreds of other student body presidents across the U.S., to resist the draft. "For anyone who didn't grow up in that era, it's just about impossible to understand the enormous pressure the Vietnam War put on young people," said Smith. Everyone knew someone who had been killed in Vietnam. Activists told Muñoz that his minor celebrity as a student leader would help the antiwar movement gain support among Latinos — "sort of like Muhammad Ali," he said. Seeking inspiration, he attended a speech by the draft resister David Harris, but concluded his call for passive resistance "wasn't going fly in the barrio." It what seemed like a cosmic coincidence, Muñoz was scheduled to report to the downtown L.A. induction center on Mexican Independence Day. So he wrote a speech about how Mexican Americans were dying in disproportionate numbers in Vietnam. "I accuse the draft, the entire social, political, and economic system of the United States of America of creating a funnel which shoots Mexican youth into Vietnam to be killed," Munoz wrote. His literary inspiration was Emile Zola's "J'Accuse." And Smith gave him some writing tips. National antiwar leaders were then organizing a moratorium, hoping to bring mainstream America out on the streets against the war. The Chicano Moratorium had similar goals — to bring the ordinary people of L.A.'s barrios into the maelstrom then sweeping through the U.S. to protest the war in Vietnam and fight for civil rights. They succeeded. The people marching that day weren't just student radicals but also families with children and future intellectuals and elected leaders who would later join the mainstream of L.A. civic life. Sheriff's deputies swept through the park just as Muñoz took the podium, transforming the rally into panicked flight. But Muñoz would prefer you not focus on the day's violent end. "To me, the most important thing was how unified we were," he said. L.A. is today a more united place, I think, thanks to Chicano Moratorium. That might seem like an odd thing to say about a demonstration with a strong Brown Pride message. But the movement it started eventually brought dramatic changes to many of our public institutions, from the LAPD to the Board of Education. Its legacy is a more open, democratic city. "Some people say that was the high point of the movement," Muñoz said of Aug. 29. "But it was really only the beginning." If you have some time this summer, wander down to the basement of the Mexican Cultural Institute next to Olvera Street, and soak up a bit of our local history. The pictures will be up until Aug. 29. (Correction, they were up until July 25th) |
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Healing wounds 40 years after Ruben Salazar's death
by Hector Tobar |
 The Chicano journalist spent a lot of his career taking officialdom to task. Now some officials could help shed light on his mysterious death.
In life and in death, strange things happened to Ruben Salazar.In 1966, the legendary Times reporter found himself in Bong Son, covering the evacuation of civilians during the Vietnam War. Fellow foreign correspondent Joseph E. Brown was there with him. After three days of sleeping on the ground, the exhausted reporters landed the last hotel room in town. Their slumbers were interrupted by the sound of refugee children outside. "Without hesitation," Brown recalled, Salazar told the hotel owner: "Why not put them in our room?" "And that's how we spent the night," Brown wrote. "Ruben and I sleeping on the hard floor and seven Vietnamese youngsters sleeping in what had been our beds." Like much about Salazar's life, it's a story tinged with irony and sadness — because just a few years after surviving the combat zones of Vietnam, Salazar was killed after stopping to use the bathroom at an East L.A. bar. "I find it hard to believe that Ruben is gone," Brown wrote. I found Brown's 1970 letter to the editor deep in the clips, that archive of cut-out stories that once filled envelopes in The Times' library. I'd gone to those archives, now digitized, to get a little closer to Salazar on the 40th anniversary of his death. Ruben Salazar was a city reporter and a foreign correspondent. He also enjoyed a brief but distinguished career as a columnist. It ended with his killing on Aug. 29, 1970. After his death, schools and parks were named after him and a stamp issued in his honor. But even today there's much about his story that leaves this Angeleno feeling unsettled. First, there's Salazar's unfinished work. He was among the early chroniclers of a self-confident, assertive Latino L.A. but was killed on the day it took its biggest step toward political consciousness. Then there are the many unanswered questions surrounding his death. Salazar was shot in the head with a tear gas projectile fired by a sheriff's deputy at the end of a day in which a large East L.A. protest against the Vietnam War ended in rioting. Salazar was a frequent critic of police brutality. Some in East L.A. suspected he was assassinated. The wounds were still fresh on Sept. 3, 1970, the day The Times published an article on his funeral service. "He was not a militant," his friend Roberto Cruz said at the service. President Nixon sent a condolence telegram lauding Salazar, who was also the news director at Spanish-language TV station KMEX. And he also sent White House counselor Robert Finch to the funeral service. Finch delivered a letter to Salazar's widow saying the White House would do everything to clarify his death. No doubt Salazar would have been amused to find the White House represented at his funeral. Like many a journalist, he'd expended a good deal of energy calling officialdom to task. And probably he wouldn't be surprised that, 40 years later, that official promise is still unfulfilled. He lived in the heyday of the "Chicano Power" movement. It was a phrase that appeared in his columns again and again — largely because power was something Mexican Americans lacked. "Power, Chicano," he wrote in an April 10, 1970, column after a frustrating visit to Washington to complain to officials about the portrayal of Latinos in the media. The Federal Communications Commission had largely ignored Salazar and his fellow Latino media professionals, treating them like "quaint" outsiders, he wrote. "Power. That's what Washington understands." That must have been a radical thing to read in The Times in 1970. "Who is a Chicano?" read the headline on Salazar's very first offering as a columnist, on Feb. 6, 1970. A Chicano, he explained, is a Mexican American who refuses to accept a second-class brand of U.S. citizenship: "This is why Mexican American activists flaunt the barrio word Chicano — as an act of defiance and a badge of honor." The young Chicano activists of the day called Salazar all the time. Rosalío Muñoz, then a 24-year-old draft resister, complained to him in early 1970 that The Times wasn't writing about East L.A.'s antiwar movement. "If you keep on doing what you say you're going to do, you'll get coverage," Salazar told him. Finally, on Aug. 29, 1970, Muñoz and Salazar found each other on Whittier Boulevard, among 30,000 marching people. "He came up to me in his white guayabera and gave me a big hug," Muñoz said. "He said, 'You did it!' " Hours later, he was dead. In 1995, Times reporter Robert J. Lopez set out to investigate what happened. In the weeks before his death, Salazar told several people, including federal civil rights officials, that he was being followed by police. About 5 p.m. Aug. 29, deputies arrived at the Silver Dollar Bar on Whittier Boulevard after an erroneous report that there was a man with a gun inside. The tear gas projectile struck Salazar in the temple. In his 1995 report, Lopez concluded "all available evidence" showed the slaying was "a tragic accident." But Lopez's search for additional evidence was frustrated. He asked the Sheriff's Department for its records on the case. Among other things, they might establish whether Salazar was under surveillance. Then-Sheriff Sherman Block denied his request. Fifteen years later, Lopez is seeking the records again, from Sheriff Lee Baca. If that request is honored, it could help heal the wounds of 1970. In July 1970, five weeks before he was killed, Salazar praised officials for acting quickly to press charges against local police accused of shooting two unarmed men. "In matters of human rights, there is nothing more beautiful than to see the System work," he wrote. It's still a beautiful thing, even when the system kicks into action 40 years after the fact. hector.tobar@latimes.com chicano.moratorium@gmail.com fuerzamundial@gmail.com |
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L.A. Public Library's New Five-Day-A-Week Service |
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| Dear Mimi, Starting July 18, 2010, the Los Angeles Public Library will begin a five-day-a-week service schedule at the Central Library and all 72 branch libraries. The change in service is the result of a reduction in staff made through layoffs and early retirement incentives, and other cuts made to reduce the city’s budget deficit. Central Library service hours will be: Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m. – 8 p.m.; Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.; closed Sunday, Monday and holidays. The History & Genealogy Department will also be open during these hours. Branch library service hours will be: Tuesday and Thursday, 12:30 p.m. – 8 p.m.; Wednesday, Friday and Saturday 10 a.m. – 5:30 p.m.; closed Sunday, Monday and holidays. If you have any questions about these changes or there is anything I can assist you with, please feel free to contact me. Sincerely, Mary McCoy Librarian - History & Genealogy Department Los Angeles Public Library 630 W. 5th Street Los Angeles, CA 90071 (213) 228-7412 |
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August
7 SHHAR Monthly Meeting Santa Clara in Santa Clara County,
California
— The American West DANA – Presents Saturday Talk: “The Mystery of Nipomo’s Native American Inhabitants: Who were they and what happened to them?” |
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Short Description: Pat Lozano will make a presentation on Jalisco and
Central Mexico to include networking, sharing of charts, books and
stories. Prior to the presentation there will be individual
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In 7/19/10, gus chavez guschavez2000@yahoo.com
wrote:
Friends,
You are invited to attend and support a fundraiser to benefit SDSU's Chicana and Chicano Archive Project. We are proud to present important San Diego documentary film makers whose work have received national and international recognition. Please join us at the Barrio Station for this special occasion. I have tickets and would be willing to make a special trip (San Diego area) to hand deliver them to you. Call me at (619) 286-9858. Thank you.
Visualing
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Save the Date!!! Oct 8-9, 2010, CCHS Symposium Arroyo
Grande in San Luis Obispo County Featuring flower farms, famous Pismo clams, Oso Flaco commemorates encounter of Spanish soldiers, captivating Chumash Indian heritage of technical skills, and much more. South County Historical Society PO Box 633 Arroyo Grande, CA 93421-0633 Gary Hoving (805) 489-8282 E-mail: schs76@sbcglobal.net
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California’s Original State
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On October 13, 1965, in celebration of the 116th
anniversary of the Signing of California’s Original State Constitution,
the California Secretary of State, Superintendent of Public Instruction,
State archivists and historians presented then Governor Edmund G. Brown
reproductions of the original 1849 handwritten California State
Constitution’s Spanish and English texts, the first state constitution
in the nation to be written and signed as a bilingual document. They chose that date for commemorative republication
for a reason. It marked the wind-up of the Convention that designed how
the State of California would function. But–after reviewing their work--
would you have voted it into existence? It you are curious–and you live in
California–your local public library either has or can obtain (on
inter-library loan) a copy of this 1965 reprinting. For example, in
California’s Orange County Public Library System, circulating copies are
available at the Cypress and Westminster branches. Reference copies can be consulted at the Brea, Dana
Point, Fountain Valley, Garden Grove Regional, Laguna Beach, San Clemente,
San Juan Capistrano Regional, Stanton and Tustin branches. So. . . is October 13, 1849, the date on which they
signed off on California’s Original State Constitution, California’s
Birthday? Not
really. Be ready–on Saturday, November 13, 2010–to wish
the State of California a Happy 161st Birthday! If you are a
Californian, it’s your baby now. BELOW IS A LIST OF THE 48 SIGNERS OF THE CALIFORNIA
CONSTITUTION, NOVEMBER 13, 1849. You, your family, friends, or some of your neighbors may be descended from
one or more of them. They came not just from California but from all over
the then United States. . .and several foreign countries.
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My name is Jennifer
Vo and my ancestors were among the soldiers and settlers who took
part in the Expedition of 1781 and the founding of the cities of Defending
Native Soil Under
a New Flag The
Civil War Begins But as the war
between the states escalated in 1862, The
Native Cavalry Company
D On January 30, 1864,
26-year-old Blas Olivas – the fifth of sixteen children of Juan
Silvestre Olivas and Clara Pico – and a cousin of my
great-great-great-great-grandmother, María Antonia Olivas –
became the first Olivas to enlist. Blas was mustered in as a private
in Company D on March 3, 1864 and was described as being 5 feet 10
inches tall with black eyes and hair and a dark complexion.
His given occupation was “vaquero.”
Most of the members of Company D were enlisted in Victoriano was
accompanied by two of his cousins. José Antonio Olivas, another son
of Juan Silvestre Olivas and Clara Pico, enlisted on July 25, 1864
and was mustered in the next day.
At the time of enlistment, Antonio was described as 5 feet 9½
inches tall, with a dark complexion, black eyes and black hair. Like
Victoriano, he was a “ranchero.” Enlisting on the same day was
19-year-old Pablo Olivas, the younger brother of Antonio. Pablo was
mustered into Company C on the same day he enlisted and was
described as 5 feet 7½ inches tall, with dark complexion and black
eyes and hair. He too was described as a ranchero. On the same day that
Victoriano and his cousin Antonio were mustered into Company C,
Victoriano and Maria Antonia’s younger brother, 20-year-old Blas Félipe
Olivas, became the fifth Olivas to enlist in the native cavalry.
Blas Félipe was described as 5 feet 7 inches tall with a dark
complexion, black hair and black eyes. He was also a ranchero. Drum
Barracks As it turned out, the
First Native Cavalry was initially put to work on a massive
irrigation project to help carry water from the At the same time,
however, cavalry troopers marched in local parades and patrolled the
waterfront, guarding federal property in San Pedro and The
End of the War Service
in Arizona Although the war had
ended, the Native Cavalry continued to do its duty, operating
against Indian insurgents, pursuing bandits and guarding the
southern border in the District of Arizona from the spring of 1865
until April 1866. Because the military tradition had been such a
strong factor in my family’s history, my ancestors took great
pride in their service, and many Santa Barbara residents welcomed
them heartily upon their return in the spring of 1866. At the time
they were mustered out, the veterans of Company C were welcomed home
with a parade and two-day fiesta in Santa Barbara. Retirement
Southern California
– and Los Angeles in particular – is home to a diverse
population of people who belong to more than 200 ethnic and
linguistic groups. For
those who choose to make this land our home, California is
undoubtedly a special place. But,
for my family, having lived on this land for 229 years and proudly
defending its soil in almost every war, this state holds an
exceptionally unique and incomparable place in our hearts — for
me, my mother, my grandmother and my children. Dedication:
I would like to dedicate this
story to my grandmother, Dora Basulto, who taught me that where you
come from is as important as where you’re going, and that our
strength lies in the spirits of those who came before us. About
the Author: Jennifer Vo – who
is an eleventh-generation Californian – is currently working
towards her master's degree in Communication Disorders and operates
her own online editorial business at EditForYou.com, providing
editorial and proofreading services to clients from all over the
world. Research
Acknowledgement: We wish to
acknowledge the assistance of Tom Silva and David Jackson in putting
this story together. Sources: California State
Military Department, the California State Military Museum,
“California and the Civil War: 1st Battalion of Native Cavalry,
California Volunteers,” Online: Hunt, Aurora, “The
Army of the Pacific: Its operations in California, Texas, Arizona,
New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Plains region, Mexico,
etc. 1860-1866” (Glendale, Calif.: The Arthur H. Clark Company,
1951), Prezelski, Tom,
“Lives of the Californio Lancers, The First Battalion of Native
California Cavalry, 1863-1866,” The Journal of Arizona History,
Spring 1999. Vo, Jennifer C. and
Schmal, John P., “A Mexican-American Family of California: In the
Service of Three Flags” (Heritage Books, 2004).
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1846 U.S. Commodore John D. Sloat took possession of Monterey |
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The Reverend
Walter Colton, USN was the Chaplin on board the USS Congress. That
ship carrying Colton entered Monterey on Thursday, July 16, 1846.
Nine days earlier, on July 7, Commodore John D. Sloat had taken
possession of Monterey for the United States, and the Stars and
Stripes floated over the Custom House. Colton was a highly
educated man of letters, which resulted in his being appointed to
the post of alcalde of Monterey. An alcalde served as mayor and
justice of the peace, and generally served as the presiding judge
for all local disputes. There was no court of appeals to his
decisions. He used prisoner labor to build the famous Colton
Hall in Monterey. Colton never learned to speak Spanish. However,
by appointing William Garner, who was fluent in Spanish, as his
personal secretary and interpreter, he had no need to learn the
language. As a result, Garner accompanied Colton on his many trips
around California. There are several references to William Garner
in Walter Colton's classic book. " Three Years In
California". Colton retired to Philadelphia in 1849 where he
wrote his California Classic. Walter Colton died of inflammation
of the liver on January 22, 1851.
The document
sent on separate mail concerned the land ownership, of
one Maria Lionisis German. She had temporarily abandoned
her property after the house was destroyed by fire. She was in
court to re-establish title, as her ownership papers were
destroyed in the fire. Note in the document distances are given in
yards, whereas the Spanish always used Varas. A Vara is about
2.8 feet, almost a yard.
The original document
was found in the Archives of the Diocese of Monterey.
Paul
E. Trejo
Genealogist, Diocese of Monterey
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| Walter Colton Letter Notarized By Willam Garner Where as a Maria Lionisia German having applied to this court for the renewal of a title deed for a building lot in this town on Monterey consisting of forty nine yards square and situated as follows to wit--- Beginning at the South East corner of a lot owned by Captain Munoz and running nearly South forty nine yards thence nearly East forty nine yards Thence nearly North forty nine yards to the second inner wall of the Presidio on the Western side of the church forty nine yards. Thence nearly West forty nine yards to the place of the beginning. This lot has the remaining part of a house formerly inhabited by the family of said German and which was burned while she resided in it and her former papers destroyed by the fire all of which she has satisfactorily proved before this court in consequence of which she is fully recognized as the lawful owner of said vecina and lot the same to be held by her, her heirs and assigned forever in fee simple to the preclusion of all other claims whatever In testimony whereof I here set my hand and seal this first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty seven. Walter Colton Alcalde A record of the above will be found in the Alcalde's office In this spot is placed in the back of registers for build- Seal of Monterey ing lots on page 160 = William R. Garner Secretary |
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This author included information about Crovetto in his first article published in Somos Primos in the January 2004 issue. To read about that interview, go to that issue and click on the California link for the article about Spanish immigration to Hawaii and to California in the early 1900s. Crovetto, a psychologist, was also active in the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of Contra Costa from 2002 to 2008 and founded the Asociación Hispana del Cáncer in 2005. That association is one of the few nonprofit organizations that is Hispanic-run and is strictly a service provider in the county (and is not a political advocacy group).
Months later the ULV had an all day "retreat" at a labor union headquarters in Martinez, California thanks to arrangements made by Roberto Reyes. That gathering, and a subsequent meeting was facilitated by Hugh Vasquez, a Senior Associate of the
Bay Area Coalition for Equitable Schools who later wrote an excellent analysis of the situation in Arizona as a result of SB 1070. At these meetings the name United Latino Voice was chosen as was a mission statement which states:
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| SAVE THE DATE: APRIL 30, 2011 ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE 2ND ANNUAL NUEVA GALICIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY CONFERENCE |
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The Nueva Galicia Genealogical Society, which focuses on genealogical interests from the Nueva Galicia area of colonial Mexico, is pleased to announce the 2nd annual Nueva Galicia Genealogical Society Conference, which will be held in Rancho Cucamonga, California (about 45 miles east of Los Angeles) on April 30, 2011. The conference will feature keynote speaker Dr. Eric Van Young, Professor of History at University of California at San Diego, whose lecture will discuss the colonial history of Guadalajara and major land-owning families. Also speaking is Arturo Ramos, moderator of Nuestros Ranchos, a Mexican genealogical website, whose lectures will focus on researching the Archivo General in Mexico City and PARES, an online Spanish archive. Others will be presenting as well. If you are interested in attending the conference, please contact Rosalinda Ruíz at NGGSConference@yahoo.com to report the possible number of people attending by August 30, 2010 (there is limited seating). Early registration will open October 1, 2010. The Nueva Galicia Genealogical Society’s website is http://www.nuevagalicia.org. Rosalinda Ruiz lareina2@ix.netcom.com |
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Santa Clara in Santa Clara County, California — The American West (Pacific Coastal) Mission Santa Clara |
 By Mathew H. Kohnen, October 19, 2006 A portion of the old Mission walls still stand today Inscription. Santa Clara, the first California mission to honor a woman, Clare of Assisi, as its patron saint, was founded nearby on the Guadalupe River on January 12, 1777. It once had the largest Indian population of any California mission. Floods and earthquake led to successive relocations. Its fifth church was dedicated on this site in 1825. In 1851 Santa Clara College was established in the old mission buildings. Erected 1980 by State Department of Parks & Recreation, William L. Gates, class of '64, Mountain Charlie Chapter #1850
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On July 17, John Johnson, Ph.D, a recognized scholar in the area of Native American Chumash Culture presented a talk on the Native Americans who resided in the Nipomo area for thousands of years, entitled “The Mystery of Nipomo’s Native American Inhabitants: Who were they and what happened to them?” . John Johnson, Ph.D, has served as the Curator of Anthropology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History since 1986. He obtained his Ph.D. in anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Johnson’s career has been devoted to understanding the culture and history of the Chumash Indians and their neighbors in south central California through the study of archaeology, archival records, and interviews with contemporary Native Americans. The Dana Adobe Saturday Talk Series was a free event held at the Dana Adobe in Nipomo, 671 S. Oakglen, Nipomo, 93444. For more information about the talk series or the Dana Adobe, visit our website at www.danaadobe.org. The Dana Adobe Nipomo Amigos is a nonprofit 501c(3) charitable organization. The mission of the organization includes the stewardship and restoration of the Dana Adobe, a California State Historic Landmark, as a means of telling the under appreciated story of California's Rancho Period. The site is also a Save America's Treasure Site and is on the National Register of Historic Places. DANA is working towards the creation of an historical park with the Dana Adobe as its centerpiece. Marina B. Washburn, Executive Director Dana Adobe Nipomo Amigos 805-929-5679 805-929-5679 Phone 805-929-5473 Fax marina@danaadobe.org www.danaadobe.org Sent by pleiku196970@yahoo.com |
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Church Closed in Nuevo Laredo No More Deaths Project Native
Americans, Spanish Colonials & Mexican Americans at Peril Again
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As of first week in June . . Had to let you all know . . I was told today that the church in Guerrero Nuevo has been closed (due to the violence there.) The priest has resigned. He was in Nuevo Laredo yesterday to turn in his papers. Que triste, que triste. Thought you would like to know. You don't hear that in the news either." Elisa |
No More Deaths is engaged in a three-pronged campaign to stop the ever-increasing criminalization and militarization plaguing the U.S.–Mexico borderlands and communities in Arizona and throughout the U.S. Aims are to repeal the anti-immigrant law S.B.1070. . http://www.nomoredeaths.org/Project-Overviews
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NATIVE AMERICANS, SPANISH COLONIALS AND MEXICAN AMERICANS By Richard
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The anti-illegal alien movement that became an anti-immigrant movement that evolved into anti-Mexican movement has once again put the assimilated Native Americans, Spanish colonials of Texas, New Mexico and Colorado and the 4th through 7th generation Mexican Americans in peril. So called “racial profiling” which in this case is ethnic, language, heritage and skin colored profiling is causing undue stress and divisiveness within the Hispanic-Latino ethnic group and in with relation with some mis-informed non Hispanics. Chronologically, many Native Americans in Texas and the U. S. Southwest were assimilated into the Spanish Colonial society. Utilizing bilingual education and religion, the Spanish government and church used the missions to strip many Native Americans of their language, culture and identity. In South Texas they became part of the Tejano population and on October 12, 1837, the Bureau of Indian Affairs of the Republic of Texas presented an historic document. It read “The Indians called Lipan, Karankawa and Tonkawa, your committee considers part of the Mexican nation … they occupy the western part of Texas”. In 1837, the geographic area from the Colorado River (i.e. Austin) to the Rio Grande was considered “Western Texas”. The document was in reference to non-mission Native Americans who had not already been assimilated into the Spanish-speaking, Roman Catholic Tejano population. In this case it is important to note the three mentioned cultures were native to South Texas and predated the Spanish colonization and still retained their identity. In time they were also assimilated into the Tejano population. The Tejano and Manito population (New Mexico and Colorado) were citizens of the Spanish empire of diverse ethnic backgrounds. The dominant group was the Spanish and Portuguese Sephardic Jews. Most were sincere conversos called New Christians. Some, however, were descendants of Crypto Jews who secretly retained their religious beliefs. Whether conversos or Crypto-Judaic, the Sephardim retained a semblance of their culture and as the ruling class influenced the other Spanish colonial ethnic groups. The includes the Basque, Greeks, Old Christians and families from the Italic speaking states now called Italy. It is important to note the Spanish colonial families settled in Coahuila (1575), Nuevo Leon (1580), New Mexico (1598), East Texas (1690), South Texas (1716) and Tamaulipas (1740’s). It must also be noted the majority of the Spanish colonial families of Texas were of European stock from Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. The only exception to the demographic movement and colonization were the fifteen families from the Canary Islands that arrived in 1731 at the banks of the San Antonio River to establish the civilian village of San Fernando de Bexar (now San Antonio in Bexar County, Texas). Due to intermarriage and cultural exchanges with non Tejanos (mainly German, Polish and Czech) it was this group that introduced La Polka Tejana (German), chotiz (Polish schottische) and redova (Czech-Polish mazurka) and the Austrian varsiovana (example; “Put Your Little Foot”) and “la Raspa (Herr Schmidt). Migration from Mexico into South Texas began immediately after the U. S. Civil War and most noticeable in the 1870’s and 80’s as the farmers and ranchers began recruiting farm and ranch hands from Tamaulipas and Coahuila. Non-labor class Mexicans from Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas and Coahuila moved to South Texas immediately after the death of Benito Juarez and the election of Porfirio Diaz as President of Mexico. Most stayed within the first 75 miles of the Texas-Mexican border and became part of the founding families of many small towns as well as local pharmacists, doctors, teachers, clerks and community leaders through the mutualista (life/burial insurance and social), Masonic Lodges, and Woodmen of the World organizations. Their descendants today are 6th and 7th generation U. S. citizens who generally identify themselves as Tejanos but still consider themselves “mejicanos” by culture but not Mexicans by nationality. The descendant of the political refugees and exiles who settled in Texas and the Southwest due to the Mexican Revolution (1910-1929) are now 4th and 5th generation U.S. citizens. Unlike the previously cited groups, some of these families still have distant relatives in Mexico and in some cases an “ancestral hometown” in Nuevo Leon, Coahuila or Tamaulipas. It was this group that introduced the Dieziseis (September 16) and Cinco de Mayo (May 5th) celebrations as well as the quinceañera (15th birthday coming of age ritual), mariachis and Mexican Catholicism. The cascaron and piñata, both of Italian origin, were also popularized by them as was Our Lady of Guadalupe. The descendants of the Spanish colonial families became U.S. citizens in Texas in 1846 and the Southwest in 1848. We come in all shades, shapes and sizes from light skinned to olive with black, brunette, blonde or red hair and blue, green or dark brown eyes. We are Roman Catholic and non-Catholic, Democrats, Republicans and Independent voters, college educated professionals, ranch and farm owners, high-tech nerds, scientists, journalists, authors, educators and more. In fact, the ethnic group is so diverse we have absolutely nothing in common! Not all speak Spanish, not all have Spanish surnames, not all are Roman Catholic, not all drive a Ford or Chevrolet, not all celebrate the Dieziseis or Cinco de Mayo, and so on and so on as we repeat, there is nothing we all have in common! Yet, we are an identifiable ethnic group with over 100 years as U. S. citizens! We colonized and settled Texas, New Mexico and Colorado long before the creation of the United States and Republic of Mexico. In closing we wish to emphasize we support border security and putting an end to the flow of drugs and illegal immigrants into the United States from any country be it a Spanish speaking country, Northern or Eastern Europe, Mediterranean, Middle East, Asia Africa or wherever! However, the nation needs seasonal, licensed workers. Most of all, the United States needs to combat illegal drug use which is what the Mexican Drug Cartels are killing each other (on the Mexican side of the border) to supply to US dealers and users! Consequently, the United States needs both Immigrant Reform Laws and a true war on illegal drug addiction within our own borders! End ……………………………. End ……………………….. end ………………….. end |
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About a year and a half ago, a high placed person whispered in a confidential conversation that Homeland Security was developing a plan to deal with massive migration from Mexico in case of an all-out war between the cartels and the government. Not being in the inner loop at such heights, I set the statement aside but did not forget it. The recent Mexican election did not result in an outright rebellion or overthrow of the government. It is true that potential candidates as well as actual candidates were intimidated, threatened, assault and murdered but the election was held nonetheless. It is still too early to (publicly) know if any cartel members or cartel associated or backed people got elected to office although we suspect some did. What we are sure of is that legal migration of law abiding Mexican citizens to the United States due to cartel violence continues to grow. It started quietly and individually. An individual, a family, an empty house here and there was not news and therefore not noted. By the latter part of last year, neighborhoods and small villages in the states of Chihuahua and Durango were reported abandoned. That slow leak has become a trickle and now the Mexican media had taken notice. This last week the states of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, Coahuila, Chihuahua, Sonora and Sinaloa have finally acknowledged the Mexicans flight to safety. It is imperative to stress at this point that we are not referring to illegal aliens seeking employment. No, this is in reference to families legally migrating to the United States for the safety and well being of their families. From Brownsville to El Paso along the Rio Grande as well as the California-Mexico border area are seeing an influx of cartel violence displaced Mexican citizens. Again we stress they are not members of any cartel or associated in any way with the cartels or drugs. They are frightened, concerned, hard working families seeking asylum from the violence along the U.S. – Mexico border. As reported by Mexican media, they are the wealthy, poor, professionals, business families and families with one common goal; safety. They quickly get a job (usually low paying, labor intensive type), enroll their children in school, join a church of choice and do not dare cross or go near the border with Mexico. We are sure the educated and better off financially will soon be enrolling in citizenship classes to become naturalized U. S. citizens. Hopefully they will thereafter become voters. Meanwhile, the towns of Mier, Camargo, New Guerrero and Miguel Aleman in the state of Tamaulipas are being described as ghost towns. According to the McAllen Chamber of Commerce, at least 400 arrived Mexican families have bought or rented homes in the last six months. Five months ago city hall and the office of alderman Jose Correa at the City of Camargo were shot. This forced Correa to move across the border and presently resides in Rio Grande City. He is said to cross the border only when necessary to tend to his duties. In San Antonio, Texas REMAX Real Estate Company is reporting 80% of their clients are Mexican citizens relocating themselves to the Alamo city. Up river, the states of Durango and Chihuahua have for the last six months been reporting entire small villages being abandoned by residents moving to West Texas. We repeat, these are legal, law abiding Mexican immigrants abandoning their homes and businesses seeking safety on the Texas side of the border. However, the same is occurring in California as families from Baja California, Sonora and Sinaloa are doing the same. This is not to deny or ignore the presence of illegal aliens and drug related crimes along the border. Vehicular theft (mainly pickup trucks and SUVs) are being stolen on the Texas side of the border by cartel members and used in Mexico. But as recently reported by more than one source, crime along the U.S. – Mexico border has actually gone down! At the same time, unfortunately, crime on the Mexican side has increased as the cartels fight each other to supply the high demand of drugs by U.S. addicts. It is that violence that is more frequently reported as if it was occurring on the U.S. side. Yes, stray bullets fired in Mexico have been known to cross the border up and down the Rio Grande but that is the law of gravity. In spite of the on-going migration to the U. S. border area, the expected “massive waves of Mexican immigrants fleeing the cartel wars” has not yet occurred. It might or may not be over the horizon. Only time will tell. If it does, it could well be a repeat of what happened 100 years ago during the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Political refugees, political exiles, veterans of the regular or rebel armies, college educated professionals and just plain folk chose or were forced to migrate to the United States. Their children, grand children and now great grand children became loyal U. S. citizens. As citizens they have proven their worth wearing the uniforms of the U. S. Armed Forces, classrooms of all levels from early childhood to university, churches, boardrooms, law enforcement, sports and entertainment. And, they are no different from the many other migrant groups from Europe, Asia, Mediterranean nations, Africa many who also arrived as penniless, non-English speaking individuals and families feeing violence and seeking a safe and fruitful way of life. Bottom line, which may not be to the liking of the culturally insecure and paranoid anti-immigrant groups, in this continent (an especially the United States) we are all migrants and descendants of migrants. Some, like the Native Americans, migrated very early. Others have just arrived. So if U. S. immigration history is about to repeat itself, it is not for the last 100 years, but for the last 30,000 years more or less since humans first set foot on the continent. For the entire text, please go to Zavala County Sentinel …… 21 – 22, July 2010 Sent by Juan Marinez |
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Documentary: Unrepentant Oklahoma Supreme Court rules tribal courts preferred forum for child welfare Puyallup Tribe Member Wants Mt. Rainier Renamed Shinnecock Nation Reclaims Slice of the Hamptons after Court Victory |
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Documentary: UNREPENTANT: Kevin Annett and Canada's Genocide Winner, Best Foreign Documentary Film, Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, March 2007, Best Director of a Foreign Documentary, New York Independent Film, Oct '06 Best Canadian Film, Creation Aboriginal Film Festival, Edmonton, '09 Read and Hear the truth of Genocide in Canada, past and present, at this website: www.hiddenfromhistory.org Sent by Dorinda Moreno fuerzamundial@gmail.com |
Puyallup Tribe member wants | Mt. Rainier renamed http://www.indiancountrytoday .com/national/northwest/95619439.html Sent by Don Milligan donmilligan@aol.com
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One More Victory for Indigenous: Shinnecock Nation reclaims slice of the Hamptons after court victory A Little Background Information from David Wolfe <wahya1@live.com>: During the American Civil War, Fort Upton was erected near Shinnicock. The fort was used to train freed African slaves as the "Buffalo Soldiers" who were later paid to kill Indians out west. Since "Shinnicock" was originally a land grant from the British Crown, it was always NOT a part of the U.S. When a buffalo soldier went AWOL, as often happened, he went to Shinnicock and stayed. As a result, to this day, many Shinnicock are as well of African heritage. There were originally 13 tribes of Indigenous in what was termed "Sewanake" [place of shells] in the Algonquian speech of the 13 tribes. The principal Indigenous center of all was the Montauket. I was informed long ago by elders of the "Shinnicock" (of the families Silva-Gumbs & Crippen) the following story: As was the tradition of all the tribes of Sewanake, the people of the villages would seasonally remove to select regions of Long Island to harvest the fruits of the forest, to fish and go whaling, etc. In the late 1700's, upon the Montaukets returning to their principal seat (now the Hamptons), they found it overtaken and occupied by English. They were repulsed to the fringes and made to accept a seat nearby. That seat was named after a village of the Montauket - Shinnicock. There were two roads in and out, only two with iron gates and a fence around the reserve. One road was called East Gate Road, the other West Gate Road. The names are the same to this day. Throughout the colonial history of New York/Long Island, Indians were hunted by the Dutch, then English for bounties, ie scalps. They were pursued on horseback and run down like foxes in a fox hunt. Many many smaller tribes were slaughtered and survivors forced to nearest other Indian towns. As recently as WWII, returning veterans of various Indigenous communities such as Cherokee, Mohawk, Mohegan, Pequot and via the Bunn & Siklos/ Houser line, Apache, may as well be found among the Shinnicock. The Shinnicock people are exemplary of the true spirit of the original people of Turtle Island. Their spirit of survival and endurance remembers and speaks well of our common ancestors. We welcome your feedback! Forward, post and consider printing for your cyberphobic friends and relatives. The Eagle Watch Newsletter is sent to interested individuals, both Indigenous and nonNative, politicians especially the Canadian ones and an assortment of English language media. Shinnecock Nation reclaims slice of the Hamptons after court victory http://groovetek.net/2010/07/11/native-american-tribe-reclaims-slice-of-the- hamptons-after-court-victory-world-news-the-observer/ Members of the Shinnecock nation outside court in Central Islip, New York, after filing papers claiming tribal ownership of land in the Hamptons. Photograph: Ed Betz Native American tribe reclaims slice of the Hamptons after court victory | World news | The Observer. From a distance the teardrop-shaped peninsula looks just like any other bit of the famed Hamptons shoreline. Thick woods crowd down to the water’s edge, and through the trees houses and roads can be glimpsed. But this land is not part of the Hamptons, neither is it really part of the United States any more. This patch – in the middle of the playground to Manhattan’s social elite – is proudly and fiercely Native American country. Almost four centuries since their first contact with the white man and after a 32-year court battle that has just ended in victory, the tiny Shinnecock tribe has now been formally recognised by America’s federal government. The decision means that the Shinnecock, numbering some 1,300 members, many of whom live in deep poverty compared with their wealthy neighbours, can apply for federal funding to build schools, health centres and set up their own police force. It means their tiny 750-acre reservation is now a semi-sovereign nation within the US, just like much bigger and more famous reservations in the west. In order to qualify the Shinnecock literally had to prove that they existed, submitting thousands of pages of tribal records. It was a process that has left a bitter legacy. “Why do we need federal recognition to show we are who we are?” said Shinnecock leader Lance Gumbs as he sat in his office in the community centre. “It’s a humiliating, degrading and insensitive process. Why do Indian people have to go through that? No other peoples are treated like that.” Many believe that the lengthy and painful process that the Shinnecock have been forced to go through is explained by the tribe’s position bang in the middle of the Hamptons, the string of Long Island towns where rich New Yorkers come to party away the summers. The difference between Shinnecock land and the rest of the Hamptons is jarring. The reservation, signalled by a line of stalls selling cheap cigarettes, sits side by side with the town of Southampton, heart of the Hamptons scene. On the reservation, some roads are dusty and unpaved. The houses can be ramshackle. Unemployment can be a problem for many Shinnecock members. Outside it on the streets of Southampton, stretch limos and black Lexus prowl down streets lined with shops selling Ralph Lauren and Diane von Furstenberg. A real estate agent on Southampton’s main street happily advertises a local house going for $12.2m. Historically – and indeed pretty much since Europeans first arrived in the area in the 1600s – the Shinnecock have been on the retreat. They lost land steadily as more and more Europeans began to farm their traditional territory, eventually leading to an agreement in 1703 that saw them confined to a broad swath of land around Southampton under a 1,000-year lease. However, in 1859 the pressure of development saw that deal scrapped by the settlers and the Shinnecock reduced to their current tiny holding. For years tribal members then eked out a living working on white farms or helping local fishermen and whalers. Now that is all set to change as a key part of federal recognition allows the Shinnecock to do the one thing that has changed Native American fortunes more than anything else in the last 100 years: build a casino. Gumbs now sees real power finally in Shinnecock hands. “We are going after everything we are entitled to,” he said. “I am not a big fan of Southampton. They were happy as long as we were the good little Indians in the corner. Well, that’s changed now.” It is unlikely that the Shinnecock will build their casino in the Hamptons itself, which is already notoriously crowded and traffic-clogged. Instead the simple threat of it is likely to eventually see them negotiate the right to build a casino elsewhere in Long Island, an area that is seen as ripe for the development of a gambling mecca. Either way, it seems Shinnecock fortunes are set to be dramatically reversed. For many tribal members it is a chance to rescue what remains of the tribe’s culture. Sitting in the tribal museum and cultural centre, Winonah Warren, 71, remembers being taken as a young girl to see a Shinnecock medicine man. She sees the deer that she spots in her garden as a spiritual sign. She practises a Native American religion in which she takes peyote. It is about as far from the Hamptons scene as it is possible to get. “I love being on the reservation. Even when I am not here, I feel that my heart is,” she said, touching her chest. Some even feel that federal recognition – and the prospect of a casino – might be the beginning of a wider Shinnecock resurgence. In the white land grab of 1859 an area of land called the Shinnecock Hills was taken. Many Shinnecock held it to be sacred ground. It is now full of rich houses and the famous Shinnecock Hills golf club, with total real estate worth more than a billion dollars. The Shinnecock have sued to get it back. For many of the Hamptons residents the prospect no doubt seems ridiculous: a relic of ancient history and long-forgotten wrongs. But not so for some of the Shinnecock. Elizabeth Haile, a 79-year-old tribal member, remembers her grandmother telling her how the Shinnecock Hills had been stolen. Does she think the tribe will ever get them back? “Yeah,” she said with no hesitation, and then added with a smile: “It is a prediction. Some people never thought we would get federally recognised.” Sent by Bill Russell rgrbob@earthlink.net |
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Studies Show Jews' Genetic Similarity More on Population Genetics Francis Salvador: Martyr of the American Revolution |
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Jewish communities in Europe and the Middle East share many genes
inherited from the ancestral Jewish population that lived in the Middle
East some 3,000 years ago, even though each community also carries genes
from other sources -- usually the country in which it lives. That is the conclusion of two new genetic surveys, the first to use genome-wide scanning devices to compare many Jewish communities around the world. A major surprise from both surveys is the genetic closeness of the two Jewish communities of Europe, the Ashkenazim and the Sephardim. The Ashkenazim thrived in Northern and Eastern Europe until their devastation by the Hitler regime, and now live mostly in the United States and Israel. The Sephardim were exiled from Spain in 1492 and from Portugal in 1497 and moved to the Ottoman Empire, North Africa and the Netherlands. The two genome surveys extend earlier studies based just on the Y chromosome, the genetic element carried by all men. They refute the suggestion made last year by the historian Shlomo Sand in his book "The Invention of the Jewish People" that Jews have no common origin but are a miscellany of people in Europe and Central Asia who converted to Judaism at various times... http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/10/science/10jews.html?src=me&ref=general |
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When we think of Jewish heroes of the American Revolution, Haym Salomon, the "financier" of the patriot cause or Isaac Franks, aide-de-camp to General George Washington, are the first names that come to mind. Rarely do we hear of South Carolina's Francis Salvador, the first identified Jew to be elected to an American colonial legislature, the only Jew to serve in a revolutionary colonial congress and the first Jew to die for the cause of American liberty. Francis Salvador was born in London in 1747, the fourth generation of Salvadors to live in England. His great grandfather Joseph, a merchant, established himself as a leader of England's Sephardic community and became the first Jewish director of the East India Company. When George III ascended the British throne, Joseph Salvador arranged an audience for the seven-man delegation that officially congratulated the king on behalf of the Jewish community. Even before Francis Salvador's birth, his family developed interests in America. Salvador's grandfather teamed with two other leaders of the London Jewish community to raise funds to send some of London's destitute Jews to the new British colony in Savannah, Georgia. The Georgia trustees subsequently voted to ban Jewish immigration to Georgia but not before grandfather Salvador and his two associates had landed forty-two Jewish settlers in Savannah in July, 1733. When the founder of the colony, James Oglethorpe, intervened on behalf of the Jews, the trustees decided to let them stay. The Salvador family then purchased personal land holdings in South Carolina. As a young man, Francis Salvador was raised in luxury in London. He was well educated by private tutors and traveled extensively. At age twenty, he married his first cousin, Sarah, and took his place in the family shipping firm. The devastating effects of a 1755 earthquake in Lisbon, where the family had extensive interests, weakened the family fortune. The failure of the East India Company completed its ruin. By the early 1770's, virtually the only thing left of the Salvador family's immense wealth was the large plot of land they had purchased in the South Carolina colony. In 1773, in an attempt to rebuild the family fortune, Francis Salvador moved to South Carolina. Intending to send for his wife Sarah and their children when he had prepared a proper home for them, Salvador arrived in Charleston in December and established himself as a planter on a seven thousand acre tract he acquired from his uncle. Salvador found himself drawn to the growing American movement against British rule and unhesitatingly threw himself into the patriot cause. Within a year of his arrival, at the age of 27, Salvador was elected to the General Assembly of South Carolina. He became the first Jew to hold that high an elective office in the English colonies. He would hold the post until his sudden death. In 1774, Francis Salvador was elected as a delegate to South Carolina's revolutionary Provincial Congress, which assembled in Charleston in January 1775. The Provincial Congress framed a bill of rights and prepared an address to the royal governor of South Carolina setting forth the colonists' grievances against the British crown. Salvador played an important role in the South Carolina Provincial Congress, which appointed him to a commission to negotiate with Tories living in the northern and western parts of the colony to secure their promise not to actively aid the royal government. When the second Provincial Congress assembled in November 1775, Salvador urged that body to instruct the South Carolina delegation in Philadelphia to vote for American independence. Salvador played a leading role in the Provincial Congress, chairing its ways and means committee and serving on a select committee authorized to issue bills of credit to pay the militia. Salvador was also part of a special commission established to preserve the peace in the interior parts of South Carolina, where the English Superintendent of Indian Affairs was busily negotiating treaties with the Cherokees to induce the tribe to attack the colonists. When the Cherokees attacked settlements along the frontier on July 1, 1776, massacring and scalping colonial inhabitants, Salvador, in an act reminiscent of Paul Revere, mounted his horse and galloped nearly thirty miles to give the alarm. He then returned to join the militia in the front lines, defending the settlements under siege. During a Cherokee attack early in the morning of August first, Salvador was shot. He fell into some bushes, where he was subsequently discovered and scalped. Salvador died forty-five minutes later. Major Andrew Williamson, the militia commander, reported of Salvador that, "When I came up to him after dislodging the enemy and speaking to him, he asked whether I had beaten the enemy. I told him 'Yes.' He said he was glad of it and shook me by the hand and bade me farewell, and said he would die in a few minutes." His friend Henry Laurens reported that Salvador's death was "universally regretted," while William Henry Drayton, later Chief Justice of South Carolina, noted that Salvador had "sacrificed his life in the service of his adopted country." Dead at twenty-nine, never again seeing his wife or children after leaving England, Salvador was the first Jew to die waging the American Revolution. Ironically, because he was fighting on the frontier, he probably did not receive the news that the Continental Congress in Philadelphia had, as he urged, adopted the Declaration of Independence. Every weekday JewishWorldReview.com publishes inspiring articles. Sign up for our daily update. It's free. Just click here.Michael Feldberg is Director of Research for the American Jewish Historical Society. Previously: How Hebrew came to Yale The Making of a Jewish Citizen © 2006, Michael Feldberg http://www.jewishworldreview.com/jewish/history3.php3 Sent by Bill Carmena |
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Vernon Baker, Belated Medal of Honor Recipient, Dies at 90 by Richard Goldstein NY Times | July 14, 2010 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/15/us/15baker.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries |
| Vernon Baker, who was the only living black veteran awarded the Medal of Honor for valor in World War II, receiving it 52 years after he wiped out four German machine-gun nests on a hilltop in northern Italy, died Tuesday at his home near St. Maries, Idaho. He was 90.
The cause was complications of brain cancer, said Ron Hodge, owner of the Hodge Funeral Home in St. Maries. “I was a soldier and I had a job to do,” Mr. Baker said after receiving the Medal of Honor, the nation’s highest award for bravery, from President Bill Clinton in a White House ceremony on Jan. 13, 1997. But in the segregated armed forces of World War II, black soldiers were usually confined to jobs in manual labor or supply units. Even when the Army allowed blacks to go into combat, it rarely accorded them the recognition they deserved. Of the 433 Medals of Honor awarded by all branches of the military during the war, not a single one went to any of the 1.2 million blacks in the service. In the early 1990s, responding to requests from black veterans and a white former captain who had commanded black troops in combat, the Army asked Shaw University, a historically black college in Raleigh, N.C., to investigate why no blacks had received the Medal of Honor during World War II. The inquiry found no documents proving that blacks had been discriminated against in decisions to award the medal, but concluded that a climate of racism had prevented recognition of heroic deeds. Military historians gave the Army the names of 10 black servicemen who they believed should have been considered for the Medal of Honor. Then an Army board, looking at their files with all references to race deleted, decided that seven of these men deserved to be cited for bravery “above and beyond the call of duty.” Four of the men — Lt. John R. Fox of Cincinnati; Pfc. Willy F. James Jr. of Kansas City, Mo.; Staff Sgt. Ruben Rivers of Oklahoma City; and Pvt. George Watson of Birmingham, Ala. — had been killed in action. Two others — Staff Sgt. Edward A. Carter Jr. of Los Angeles and Lt. Charles L. Thomas of Detroit, who retired as a major — had died in the decades after the war. Those six received the medal posthumously at the White House ceremony in 1997. Mr. Baker, the lone survivor among the seven, was greeted with a standing ovation as he entered the East Room to the strains of “God Bless America” played by the Marine Corps Band. As Mr. Clinton placed the Medal of Honor around his neck, Mr. Baker stared into space, a tear rolling down his left cheek. “I was thinking about what was going on up on the hill that day,” he said later. That day was April 5, 1945. Lieutenant Baker, a small man — 5 feet 5 inches and 140 pounds — was leading 25 black infantrymen through a maze of German bunkers and machine gun nests near Viareggio, Italy, a coastal town north of Pisa. About 5 a.m., they reached the south side of a ravine, 250 yards from Castle Aghinolfi, a German stronghold they hoped to capture. Lieutenant Baker observed a telescope pointing out of a slit. Crawling under the opening, he emptied the clip of his M-1 rifle, killing two German soldiers inside the position. Then he came upon a well-camouflaged machine-gun nest whose two-man crew was eating breakfast. He shot and killed both soldiers. After Capt. John F. Runyon, his company commander, who was white, joined the group, a German soldier hurled a grenade that hit Captain Runyon in his helmet but failed to explode. Lieutenant Baker shot the German twice as he tried to flee. He then blasted open the concealed entrance of another dugout with a hand grenade, shot one German soldier who emerged, tossed another grenade into the dugout and entered it, firing his machine gun and killing two more Germans. Enemy machine-gun and mortar fire began to inflict heavy casualties among the platoon. Lieutenant Baker’s company commander had gone back for reinforcements, but they never arrived, so the remnants of the platoon had to withdraw. Lieutenant Baker, supported by covering fire from one of his soldiers, destroyed two machine-gun positions to allow the evacuation. Seventeen of the men in the platoon had been killed by time the firefight ended. The next night, Lieutenant Baker voluntarily led a battalion advance through enemy minefields and heavy fire. Lieutenant Baker received the Distinguished Service Cross, the Army’s second-highest award for bravery. Asked a half-century later whether he had ever given up hope of being awarded the Medal of Honor, he seemed surprised. “I never thought about getting it,” he said. Freddie Stowers, a black veteran of World War I nominated for the medal in 1918, finally received it posthumously from President George Bush in 1991. Vernon Joseph Baker was born on Dec. 17, 1919, in Cheyenne, Wyo., the son of a carpenter. After his parents died in an automobile accident when he was 4, he and two older sisters moved in with their grandparents, who also lived in Cheyenne. The youngster developed a penchant for trouble, so he was sent to Boys Town in Omaha at age 10. He stayed there for three years, then earned a high school diploma while living with an aunt in Iowa. He joined the Army in June 1941 and was sent to Camp Wolters, Tex., for basic training — his first trip to the Deep South. When he boarded a bus to the camp after stepping off the train, the driver shouted a racial epithet and told him to “get to the back of the bus where you belong,” he recalled years later in an interview with The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Wash. When he began to show leadership potential, he was sent to Officer Candidate School, graduating as a second lieutenant in 1942. He went to Italy in 1944 with the 92nd Infantry Division’s 370th Regiment, which was composed of black enlisted men and black junior officers but had white officers in senior positions. In October 1944, Lieutenant Baker was shot in the arm by a German soldier, and when he awoke from surgery he noticed that he was in a segregated hospital ward. After the war, he remained in Italy for three years, then returned to the United States and re-enlisted. He stayed in the Army until 1968, then worked for the Red Cross at Fort Ord, Calif., counseling needy military families. After his first wife, Fern, died in 1986, he retired and moved to a rural section of Idaho to pursue his love of hunting. Mr. Baker’s survivors include his second wife, Heidy; three children from his first marriage; a stepdaughter; and a stepgrandson. Asked at the awards ceremony how he had felt about serving in a segregated unit, Mr. Baker replied: “I was an angry young man. We were all angry. But we had a job to do, and we did it. My personal thoughts were that I knew things would get better, and I’m glad to say that I’m here to see it.” Sent by Juan Marinez marinezj@anr.msu.edu |
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Henderson, a native of New Orleans, La. who currently lives in metro-Atlanta, discovered his unique lineage while researching his French ancestry. His fourth generation great-grandfather, Mathieu Devaux, a French National, served as a militiaman under the command of the Spanish Governor General Bernardo de Galvez, who led troops in several major battles in Louisiana and along the Gulf Coast. Devaux had a relationship with his former slave, Agnes Mathieu, in Spanish Colonial Louisiana. Henderson is descendent from one of their seven children, all of whom were born free prior to the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Henderson first learned of the National Society, Sons of the American Revolution in 2006 when Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Director of the W.E.B. DuBois Institute for African and African American Research at Harvard University, discovered his own ancestral link to the Revolutionary War and one year later was himself inducted into the national lineage organization. "I'm the first in my family to pursue membership in the NSSAR, so the process was especially detailed for me," says Henderson, who had to compile birth, marriage and death certificates, as well as other documents from the 1700s and 1800s to prove his connection to Devaux. "It was truly a labor of love and it's an honor to have my family tied to an American Revolutionary War patriot. I'm proud to be an example to others that they too can be a part of the narrative of America's history." The story of Henderson's fourth generation great-grandparents and their connection to General Galvez is the subject of an upcoming segment on the PBS series "The History Detectives." Media interested in scheduling an interview or covering the induction ceremony should advise media contact in advance. Photos available upon request.
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Shinnecock Nation reclaims slice of the Hamptons after court victory Spanish banks eager to invest in Florida |
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/11/shinnecock-tribe-hamptons-native-american Paul Harris in Southampton, New York, The Observer, Sunday 11 July 2010 Members of the Shinnecock nation outside court in Central Islip, New York, after filing papers claiming tribal ownership of land in the Hamptons. Photograph: Ed Betz  Native American tribe reclaims slice of the Hamptons after court victory. Shinnecock nation recovers ancestral lands in millionaires' Long Island playground after gaining federal recognition From a distance the teardrop-shaped peninsula looks just like any other bit of the famed Hamptons shoreline. Thick woods crowd down to the water's edge, and through the trees houses and roads can be glimpsed. But this land is not part of the Hamptons, neither is it really part of the United States any more. This patch – in the middle of the playground to Manhattan's social elite – is proudly and fiercely Native American country. Almost four centuries since their first contact with the white man and after a 32-year court battle that has just ended in victory, the tiny Shinnecock tribe has now been formally recognised by America's federal government. The decision means that the Shinnecock, numbering some 1,300 members, many of whom live in deep poverty compared with their wealthy neighbours, can apply for federal funding to build schools, health centres and set up their own police force. It means their tiny 750-acre reservation is now a semi-sovereign nation within the US, just like much bigger and more famous reservations in the west. In order to qualify the Shinnecock literally had to prove that they existed, submitting thousands of pages of tribal records. It was a process that has left a bitter legacy. "Why do we need federal recognition to show we are who we are?" said Shinnecock leader Lance Gumbs as he sat in his office in the community centre. "It's a humiliating, degrading and insensitive process. Why do Indian people have to go through that? No other peoples are treated like that." Many believe that the lengthy and painful process that the Shinnecock have been forced to go through is explained by the tribe's position bang in the middle of the Hamptons, the string of Long Island towns where rich New Yorkers come to party away the summers. The difference between Shinnecock land and the rest of the Hamptons is jarring. The reservation, signalled by a line of stalls selling cheap cigarettes, sits side by side with the town of Southampton, heart of the Hamptons scene. On the reservation, some roads are dusty and unpaved. The houses can be ramshackle. Unemployment can be a problem for many Shinnecock members. Outside it on the streets of Southampton, stretch limos and black Lexus prowl down streets lined with shops selling Ralph Lauren and Diane von Furstenberg. A real estate agent on Southampton's main street happily advertises a local house going for $12.2m. Historically – and indeed pretty much since Europeans first arrived in the area in the 1600s – the Shinnecock have been on the retreat. They lost land steadily as more and more Europeans began to farm their traditional territory, eventually leading to an agreement in 1703 that saw them confined to a broad swath of land around Southampton under a 1,000-year lease. However, in 1859 the pressure of development saw that deal scrapped by the settlers and the Shinnecock reduced to their current tiny holding. For years tribal members then eked out a living working on white farms or helping local fishermen and whalers. Now that is all set to change as a key part of federal recognition allows the Shinnecock to do the one thing that has changed Native American fortunes more than anything else in the last 100 years: build a casino. Gumbs now sees real power finally in Shinnecock hands. "We are going after everything we are entitled to," he said. "I am not a big fan of Southampton. They were happy as long as we were the good little Indians in the corner. Well, that's changed now." It is unlikely that the Shinnecock will build their casino in the Hamptons itself, which is already notoriously crowded and traffic-clogged. Instead the simple threat of it is likely to eventually see them negotiate the right to build a casino elsewhere in Long Island, an area that is seen as ripe for the development of a gambling mecca. Either way, it seems Shinnecock fortunes are set to be dramatically reversed. For many tribal members it is a chance to rescue what remains of the tribe's culture. Sitting in the tribal museum and cultural centre, Winonah Warren, 71, remembers being taken as a young girl to see a Shinnecock medicine man. She sees the deer that she spots in her garden as a spiritual sign. She practises a Native American religion in which she takes peyote. It is about as far from the Hamptons scene as it is possible to get. "I love being on the reservation. Even when I am not here, I feel that my heart is," she said, touching her chest. Some even feel that federal recognition – and the prospect of a casino – might be the beginning of a wider Shinnecock resurgence. In the white land grab of 1859 an area of land called the Shinnecock Hills was taken. Many Shinnecock held it to be sacred ground. It is now full of rich houses and the famous Shinnecock Hills golf club, with total real estate worth more than a billion dollars. The Shinnecock have sued to get it back. For many of the Hamptons residents the prospect no doubt seems ridiculous: a relic of ancient history and long-forgotten wrongs. But not so for some of the Shinnecock. Elizabeth Haile, a 79-year-old tribal member, remembers her grandmother telling her how the Shinnecock Hills had been stolen. Does she think the tribe will ever get them back? "Yeah," she said with no hesitation, and then added with a smile: "It is a prediction. Some people never thought we would get federally recognized."
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| Spanish banks eager to invest in Florida by Jorge Rossell, Special to The Miami Herald |
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Spain's leading financial institutions have become major power players in the South Florida banking community. What are the advantages for Spanish banks to invest in South Florida? Spain and South Florida share strong cultural ties. Additional positive investment incentives were a favorable U.S. currency exchange rate and the opportunity for expanded geographic and economic diversity. These strong factors motivated well-capitalized Spanish institutions to enter into a promising market where they are new, fresh players. Before investing in TotalBank, Grupo Banco Popular Español (GBPE), Spain's third-largest banking group, analyzed various markets throughout the United States and finally chose South Florida as the most favorable choice with its dynamic economic potential, especially within the Hispanic population. However, new territory brings new challenges. For a Spanish bank to become successful, it requires carefully adapting the thinking and culture of the South Florida banking business and seamlessly fusing it with the positive aspects of the Spanish model. One example involves the product life cycle of a typical home mortgage. The traditional American banking methodology has been to finance a mortgage, make the money and then sell or securitize it effectively turning it into a commodity product. The Spanish approach is patient and focuses on the long term, always looking to develop a long-term relationship with the customer. For example, the Spanish model will typically retain the mortgage customer and leverage this critical financial service realizing the potential for a broad array of current and future financial services. With the downturn of South Florida's residential and commercial real estate market, there are many banks in Florida that do not have the necessary access or capital to survive. This severely limits the access for loans to individuals and businesses. Consequently, banking experts predict the failure of many traditional community banks because they lack capital. In Florida, more than 275 banks may be reduced to about 100 within the next several years. This positions Spanish banks, including GBPE, with the opportunity for future expansion. A viable back-to-basics approach will help us be poised for growth organically, not only by gaining new market share by opening new locations and preempting it from the competition that is not able to serve their customers. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) reported that 140 small banks failed last year, and so far this year, 86 banks have already failed. Fortunately, Spain's financial institutions have not faced the same crisis as it relates to lending due to its healthy economic `no bailout' system. Spain's banking regulations require banks to make generic provisions, no matter the size or quality of the loan. The United States does not have this type of reserve provision. But in Spain, a bank must provide a fixed percentage reserve as a cushion. If an economic downturn occurs, the bank already has ``over-reserved'' for potential losses. Grupo Banco Popular Español has the critical advantage of having substantial capital. This is a tremendous advantage in a market where many community banks are lacking capital strength which seriously limits their growth opportunities. Strong capital reserves expand the market for lending to small business which is at the heart of the American economy. In the United States, bank relationships are more of a commodity. By contrast, Spain's long-term retail banking approach offers quality service and establishes personal relationships with success depending, not on one person or the size of the bank, but on having a strong team for the mutual benefit of both the customer and the bank. We believe the next 12 to 18 months will be a time for tremendous opportunity and substantial market-share growth in South Florida and we look forward to this challenge. Jorge Rossell is chairman and chief executive of TotalBank Read more: http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/07/05/1713119/spanish-banks-eager-to-invest.html#ixzz0uBlwtFnJ Sent by Jim Estrada jim@estradausa.com HCM/Latino News Clips: 7.5.10. |
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Amigos of Louisiana State University Canary Islanders Heritage Society of Louisiana, Established 1996 |
| AMIGOS To promote greater awareness of Spanish studies at Louisiana State University and the Influence of Hispanic peoples and culture in Louisiana. http://www.amigoslsu.org/ |
| Canary Islanders Heritage Society of Louisiana,
Established 1996 Do you have ancestors from the Canary Islands? Below is a list of surnames of the Canary Islanders who sailed to Louisiana: http://www.canaryislanders.org/CIHS%20info%20sheet.pdf Sent by Bill Carmena JCarm1724@aol.com |
| Abreu Acosta Acevedo Aguilar Alemán, Alleman Alonso, Alonzo Alvarado, Albarado Alvarez de Armas Ártiles Ascaño, Escaño Avila Barrios Barroso Bello Benitez Betancourt Bermúdez Blanco Caballero, Cavallero Cabrera Campo Carrera Carrillo Castillo Castro Collado Curbelo Corbo, Carbo, Cabo, Cavo Cruz Cubas Dávila Delgado Díaz, Díez Domínguez Dumpierres Durán Eñeda Escobar Espino Espinoso Estévez, Esteves Falcón Fernández |
Flores Francisco Fuentes García Gómez González, Gonzales Gordillo Guerra Guía Gutiérrez, Guitiérrez Guzmán, Gusmán Henríquez Hernández Herrera Hidalgo Jorge (George) Labrador León López Lorenzo Lugo Macías, Masias, Massias Machado Marino Marrero Martel Martín Martínez Mayor Medina, Medine Melián, Millien Melo Mendoza Mesa Molero Montesino Monzón Morales Navarro Núñez Ojeda Orgaz Orta, Dorta Ortega |
Ortiz Padrón Palao Peña Perera Pérez Pimentel Pino (del Pino) Placencia, Plaisance Querido Quevedo Quintana Ramírez Ramos Ravelo Reyes Ríos Rivero Rodríguez Rojas Romano Romero Ruano Ruíz Sanabria Sánchez Santana, Santa Ana Santos Serpas Silverio, Sevario Siverio Sosa Súarez Tilano, Tillano Torres Truxillo Vargas Vega Ventura Vera Verde Viera Ximénez, Jiménez Zerpa |
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August 5 - 6: Second Annual Texas Higher Education Symposium at UTSA
New Guide to Spanish and Mexican Land
Grants of South Texas
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7: Creation of Coahuila y Tejas and Its Role in the Texas Revolution, Los
Bexarenos Hispanic Genealogy Societies Dan Arellano, Stands up to the Texas State Board of Education Alejos de la Garza Some Reflections on Alejos de la Garza Benavides Healer of Olmos Creek Tejanos Unidos Family Pedigree/Maria Josefa Guajardo 197th Anniversary of the Bloodiest Battle in Texas History The Battle of Medina |
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2010--FREE Online Registration Symposium Web Site: The web site provides detailed information on the topics and the speakers at the symposium, including campus maps, and parking and driving directions. http://education.utsa.edu/educational_leadership_ and_policy_studies/collaborations_programs/ Sent by Roberto Calderon, Ph.D. beto@unt.edu New Guide to Spanish and Mexican Lan Grants of South Texas. Texas General Land Office in
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The Houston Hispanic Genealogical Society on September 24, 25, 26 2010.
http://www.hispanicgs.org/houston/ Jose Guerra, President joguerra@olsenguerra.com Date: Sept 25th, 2010 Canales Reunion |
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August 7, 2010, 9:30 a.m Meeting of Los Bexarenos |
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Speaker: Richard Bruce Winders, PhD, Historian
Topic: The Creation of Coahuila y Tejas and Its Role in the Texas Revolution Dr. Richard Bruce Winders is the Historian and Curator at the Alamo. His major field of study is United States History, and his minor field is the Spanish Borderlands and military history.He received his PhD in history from Texas Christian University in 1994. His doctoral dissertation was titled: “Mr. Polk’s Army: Politics, Patronage, and the American Military in the Mexican War.” He obtained his M.A. from the University of Texas at Arlington in 1990, and wrote his thesis on “The Role of the Mississippi Volunteer in Northern Mexico.” In 1981 he also obtained an M.A. from U.T. Arlington Department of Education, and obtained Teacher Certification. He obtained his B.A. in 1977 from Murray State University, with a major in Geology and a minor in Spanish.From 1991 to 1996 he was a member of the Graduate Faculty/Adjunct Faculty of History at TCU. From 1981 to 1990 he was a Classroom Teacher and Chairman of Social Studies at Arlington Independent School District, and an Instructor of history for a shorter period at Tarrant County Junior College. Overall, his Primary Teaching Fields are: United States History, 19th Century Social and Political History, Civil War and Reconstruction, Old South, and Jacksonian America. His Secondary Teaching Teaching Fields are: Spanish Borderlands, Military History, Texas History, Mexican History. Dr. Winters has been the Historian and Curator of The Alamo since July 1996. Some of his published books includes: Sacrificed at the Alamo: Tragedy and Triumph in the Texas Revolution. State House Press, 2004 Davy Crockett: The Legend of the Wild Frontier (The Library of American Lives and Times), 2003 Crisis in the Southwest: The United States, Mexico, and the Struggle for Texas, 2002 Mr. Polk's Army: The American Military Experience in the Mexican War (Military History Ser), 2002 Some Honors and awards recevide by Dr. Winders includes: 2003: Crisis in the Southwest Runner Up for TSTA Bates Award 2002: Crisis in the Southwest named "Outstanding Academic Title of 2002" by Choice 2001: "Yellow Rose" Award from San Antonio Women’s Club for excellence education 2000: Chair of Local Arrangements for Western History Association Annual Meeting 1999: The United States and Mexico at War awarded Sanchez Lamego Book Prize 1998: The United States and Mexico at War named Editor’s Choice by Book List 1997: Mr. Polk’s Army awarded The Jerry Coffey Memorial Book Prize 1997: Mr. Polk’s Army designated a History Book Club Selection 1997: Named a Fellow of the Grady Mc Whiney Research Foundation Larry Kirkpatrick elindio2@hotmail.com
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Dan Arellano, Stands up to the Texas State Board of Education |
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The community of Losoya welcomes you to the “Tejano Battle of Medina Memorial Service.” The event will begin at 2 P.M in the air conditioned community hall on Saturday August 21, 2010. Scheduled speakers are Senator Gonzalo Barrientos and former Mayor of Austin, Gus Garcia ; also Texas Authors Robert
Thonhoff, Jose Antonio Lopez and Dan Arellano, with Master of Ceremonies Maclovio Perez. As the exclusion of Mexican Americans from Ken Burns WW II Documentary and the current battle with the State Board of Education has proven, we must tell our own stories. The following is one of those stories. The “Battle of Medina,” on August 18, 1813, was the biggest and bloodiest battle ever fought on Texas soil. The Republican Army of the North consisted of two to three hundred American volunteers, one to two hundred Native Americans and eight to nine hundred Tejanos. Out of this number only one hundred would survive; ninety of those survivors would be Americans which proves beyond any shadow of a doubt that the ones with the most to lose would fight the hardest and that the Tejanos and their Native American allies stood and fought to the last man. During the onset of the battle it is written that Colonel Miguel Menchaca had been ordered to withdraw his men whereas Menchaca responds “Tejanos do not withdraw,” and he plunges back into the thick of battle. And it was not till he was shot through the neck and he fell from his horse mortally wounded, that the Tejanos became discouraged, yet as discouraged as they were twice more they rallied and twice more they rode into battle. The “Battle of Medina,” the forgotten history of our Tejanos, these first sons and daughters of the State of Texas…..unknown and unrecognized for their ultimate sacrifice. And now it is time to honor our ancestors who fought and died for freedom 197 years ago. The event is free and open to the public. Information contact: www.tejanoroots.org or www.battleofmedina.org Dan Arellano, Author/Historian 512-826-7569 darellano@austin.rr.com (I am happy to report, because of my testimony to the State Board of Education the “Battle of Medina” will be included in the 7th grade High School curriculum.) |
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Alejos De la Garza Benavidez, was a true and strong willed survivor! Long before Alejos De La Garza came into this world, His parents had settled in Victoria, Texas and were very prominent ranchers in the Colony established by the Empresario, Martin De Leon. On a quiet peaceful day In June 1836 Julian de la Garza’s thoughts came to a sudden end. Likely, his thoughts were of his new unborn child about to be born and/or about the Alamo which had just been lost but regained at the battle of San Jacinto. Julian de la Garza was a True Patriot and strongly believed in the struggle for Texas freedom and liberty. He fought for this great cause to the very end when his life came to a bitter end at the hand of an Indian raid. He was a true Texas patriot and regretfully, very few people know of him. A month passed and Alejos de La Garza came into this world without the loving arms of a mother, as she had just died giving birth to her son. A new baby in Texas in 1836 and no parents to care for him, what a misfortune. Family members from Mexico took the baby and raised him to adulthood. Life was not very safe during those trying times, and quite a few of Alejose relatives left the area and moved to Louisiana and then relocated in Mexico. When they tried to come back to Victoria, There was no ranch or lands to come back to. They had all been taken over by foreigners. What a sad story for such a good and hard working family. Alejos came back home to Texas and took his rightful place in Concepcion, Duval County where he purchased several thousand acres and established his ranch operations. Concepcion is located about 20 miles from Premont, Texas which is on Hwy 281 South. From his hardships and his determination to succeed we learn that SI SE PUEDE, even under very difficult and adverse conditions. When I first learned about Julian de La Garza and his wife Leonor Benavidez, and their baby, Alejos, their story touched my heart in a very special way that it has taken me approximately two years to finally make a connection to this pioneering family. SOMOS PRIMOS IS SUCH AN APPROPRIATE NAME as we are all primos, and we are all over. Julian de la Garza is related to my family thru Josefa Guajardo, for example, and Julian’s wife, Leonor Benavides Villareal is related to me as we share the same ancestor which is Dionicio Elizondo Cavazos. My line is thru his daughter Viviana Elizondo Gonzalez and her line is thru her grandmother Eugenia Elizondo Gonzalez, another daughter of Dionicio Elizondo Cavazos. Leonor Benavides Villareal and Placido Benavidez Villareal are brother and sister. Placido was the son in law of Martin de Leon, and as you can see, Leonor’s death, not only affected Martin de Leon, but the whole closely knit community. Alejos De La Garza settled in an area where his mother’s relatives lived close by, the Benavidez, the Elizondos, etc. and the whole area is very neighborly. I come from this area and I call it “little Mier“ because so many of these families originated in Mier! I had heard and seen my great grandmother, Viviana Elilzondo’s sister, Eugenia’s name, many times in the past. However, until recently, I had not realized that she was the great grandmother of Alejos de la Garza, and not in my wildest dreams, did I ever think of such a connection. What a small world! |
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197th Anniversary of the Bloodiest Battle in Texas History |
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| The public is invited to attend the 197th anniversary of the Battle of Medina, at a site in Atascosa County overlooking the Galvan Creek, where we believe between 800 and 1,300 men died August 18, 1813. This was the bloodiest and largest loss of life of any battle in Texas history, and it occurred about 20 miles south of San Antonio, Texas. The ceremony will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, August 21, 2010, and everyone interested in Texas history is invited. Due to the heat, we will only be at the battle site for about one hour for each Society to rededicate their marker to American Revolutionary Patriot Peter Sides, and the Sons of The Republic of Texas marker for Benjamin Allen and all the other men who fought and died in this battle. The SAR, DAR, SRT, DRT, The Daughters of the War of 1812 Society, and the Mayflower Societies will all re-dedicate their markers, making this one of the most honored and dedicated historic sites in Texas. Members of the Mayflower Society will also re-dedicate their marker for a printer from Philadelphia, Samuel Alden, who is believed to have died after the Battle of Medina and descended from a Mayflower Pilgrim. Our combined Color Guard will present the Colors to begin the ceremony and fire a musket salute to all those who participated in this battle on both sides to conclude the event. Everyone will then retire to Pleasanton, Texas for lunch on your own, and then reconvene at the Pleasanton Church of Christ located at 1003 North Main Street for an air-conditioned history seminar from 1:00 p.m. to approximately 3:30 p.m. in the church meeting hall. The Atascosa County Historical Commission members will graciously providing us with refreshments in the afternoon at the church during the symposium again this year.
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The Battle of Medina |
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| With the approach of the 200th anniversary of the fateful Battle of Medina in the year 2013, there has been renewed interest in its cause, occurrence, and effects. Fought on August 18, 1813, somewhere in a sandy oak forest region of southern Bexar County and northern Atascosa County, the Battle of Medina was the bloodiest battle ever fought on Texas soil. Occurring during a very confused and turbulent period of world history, the disastrous Battle of Medina affected the destinies of five nations of the world: Spain, Mexico, the United States of America, France and England. Mexico and much of Latin America were in revolt against Spain, whose king from 1807 till 1814 was Joseph Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon, who was on a rampage in Europe, and the United States of America was at war with England, later to be called the War of 1812. In this cauldron of world events, Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara, a visionary rancher and merchant of Revilla, Nuevo Santander, and Augustus Magee, a former West Point graduate, aided and abetted by the United States, organized an expedition to wrest the Province of Texas from Spain. Flying the Green Flag, their Republican Army of the North crossed from Louisiana into Texas on August 7, 1812, and soon captured Nacogdoches and Trinidad de Salcedo before heading toward and capturing Presidio La Bahía, where during the winter of 1812-1813, Spanish Royalist forces under Texas Governor Manuel de Salcedo and Nuevo León Governor Simón de Herrera besieged the Republicans for nearly four months, the longest siege in American military history. After the Royalists lifted the siege, the Republicans marched toward San Antonio and defeated the Spanish Royalists on March 29, 1813, in the Battle of Rosillo. The Republicans took control of San Antonio on April 1, 1813, and on April 4, 1813, two Spanish governors, Manuel de Salcedo and Simón de Herrera were brutally executed. On April 6 a Declaration of Independence established the first republican government of the State of Texas, with a President-Protector, a Junta (council), and a Constitution. After the victorious Battle of Alazán on the outskirts of Béxar on June 20, 1813, the Republicans reigned supreme in Texas. With one bold stroke, however, Spain struck back. On August 18, 1813, the 1830- member Spanish Royalist Army under General Joaquín de Arredondo decimated the 1400-member Republican Army of the North under the command of General José Álvarez de Toledo in “la batalla del encinal de Medina.” Less than one hundred of the Republicans are known to have escaped. The Republican Army of the North was composed of about 300 Norteamericanos, about one thousand Tejanos, and about one hundred Native Americans. More lives were lost in the Battle of Medina than were lost in the battles at the Alamo, Goliad, and San Jacinto combined some 23 years later in the Second Texas Revolution, 1835-1836. At least five of the Republican soldiers were veterans of the American Revolution, some were sons of American Revolutionaries, some were later participants in the War of 1812, and even some were participants of the Second Texas Revolution in 1835-1836. The bones of about 800 Republicans killed in the Battle of Medina were left to bleach on the sand for nine years before they were gathered in 1822 and buried under an oak tree somewhere in the “encinal.” Never in the annals of the history of our nation has there been a major battle with such a disproportionate number of unknown dead and so many unhonored participants and survivors. The Battle of Medina and its vengeful aftermath were so terrible, that Texas citizens of that time just didn’t talk or write about it for many years to come. Subsequently and consequently, a battlefield, a first republic, and a flag of Texas have been virtually lost and/or forgotten for most of the past two hundred years. Everyone who was living in Texas during these devastating years was profoundly affected. In recent years, Texans have started to remember the Battle of Medina and all that it stood for. In 2003 a 10-year countdown towards the 200th Anniversary of the Battle of Medina on August 18, 2013, was begun by a few interested and knowledgeable individuals and organizations. Two 197th anniversary commemorations are planned to be held on Saturday, August 21, 2010: (1) a Battle of Medina Symposium sponsored by the Sons of the American Revolution will be held 1:00-3:30 P.M. at the Pleasanton Church of Christ, 1003 North Main Street in Pleasanton, Texas; (2) a 5th annual Tejano Battle of Medina event sponsored by the Tejano Genealogical Society of Austin will be held at 2:00 P.M on Saturday, August 21, 2010,. at the Mt Carmel Catholic Church, 18555 Leal Road, Losoya, Texas. The public is invited to attend. For more information on the above commemorations, call: Tom Green, Former TXSSAR President, at 281-922-1118; or visit www.battleofmedina.org. rof001@sbcglobal.net |
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Healer of Olmos Creek |
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| The Healer of Olmos Creek. My grandmother used to tell stories of what a great healer he was. He was known as the healer of Los Olmos Creek as his home was close to the creek or so I understand.
The Olmos runs into Matagorda Bay. My mother was raised on the San Francisco land grant, and the Los Olmos runs thru the property. At one point at the creek about two blooks from grandma's house is our family cemetary where it is said that was the site of where my great grandfather Benito Gonzales was killed.
He was the son in law of Dionicio Elizondo. He was buried there but it is said that later the body was taken to Mexico and re-buried. mage http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/JJ/fja24.html http://www.sanbenito.k12.tx.us/Schools/BertaCabaza/READING%20DEPT/LopezPena/Don_Pedrito.html http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3732/is_200701/ai_n21185607/ |
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| In Texas History there is a Col. Jose Francisco Ruiz. His house was on Dolorosa St. where I used to work downtown. It was moved to the Witte Museum. His father was Juan Manual Ruis , and grandfather Antonio Ruiz.
My line is my grandmother Margarita Garza Ruiz, daughter of Jose Maria Ruiz, son of Jose Manual Ruiz son of Antonio Ruiz. A couple of years ago I went with your sister to Corpus Christi, and on the way back to S.A. took a side road and went to Goliad, which I had never been to. Had always wanted to go because I knew there was a lot of history there. When we arrived, I felt a chill, and felt very unwelcome, but we stayed and ate, and did some sightseeing, I had no idea of all that had actually happened until I got there, and then I understood, why this people felt that way about Mexicans, even though our skin was light. Please note all the subjects that you can click on on this link: I wonder how many of our people know that Ignacio Zaragosa famous for the battle of Puebla against the French invasion was actually born in Goliad. Cinco de Mayo http://www.presidiolabahia.org/massacre.htm http://www.presidiolabahia.org/zaragosa.htm http://www.presidiolabahia.org/after_the_revolution.htm http://www.presidiolabahia.org/after_the_revolution.htm#Mier http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/MM/qem2.html http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/BB/qmb1.html It is my understanding from another article that a read some time back that Santa Ana spared a doctor and his family that he had met in Texas from execution, and took the doctor's young son and finished raising him as his son, and raised him as a Mexican. That is all I Remember. Mage http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/deleon4.htm This man was distantly related to grandma and I have him in the database. ========================================================== http://www.celebratingtexas.com/tr/lsl/22.pdf http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/ZZ/fza3.html Alonso de Leon and Martin de Leon http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/deleonframe.htm Martin a handsome man http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/DD/fde8.html http://www.texasescapes.com/TexasGulfCoastTowns/VictoriaTexas/VictoriaTexas.htm http://www.southtexastraveler.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=22&Itemid=26 http://www.hispanicgs.com/alejo1.html http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txclapor/Cemeteries/deZavalaCem.htm This link is very impressive I clicked at all the images on the graves of Lorenzo. and also I looked at the names of the people buried there. I think that would be an idea for the Gonzalez
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Family Pedigree/Maria Josefa Guajardo |
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Maria Josefa
Guajardo was the
daughter of
Alferez Jose
Martinez
Guajardo and
Margarita
Gutierrez de
Castro. She was
the wife of
Francisco de la
Garza Falcon who
was the Sergeant
of Camargo,
Tamaulipas and
previously in
Cerralvo, Mexico
under Blas de la
Garza Falcon.
She and her
husband must
have been
important enough
in South Texas
and Northern
Mexico for
Francis Seabury
to devote a
chapter to her
and her progeny.
Maria Josefa was
born around 1720
(calculated from
her age in the
Census records
of early Camargo)
probably around
Cerralvo. Early
records of
Cerralvo are
unavailable at
this time to
find definite
records.
Calculation of
birth records of
her children
from Census
records also
give us reason
to believe that
she and
Francisco were
married around
1739 - 1740.
Record of her
father's will in
the Archivo
Municipal de
Monterrey,
Indice de
Protocolos #
1679, recorded
on the 6th of
November 1728,
found in Book
III, Folio 82,
numero 38, list
her and brothers
and sisters. The
will tells us
that they were
from the
Estancia de
Nuestra Senora
del Rosario
which was
contiguous with
the city of
Monterrey. Maria
Josefa's
paternal
grandparents
were Jose
Guajardo and
Nicolosa de la
Garza and her
maternal
grandparents
were Diego
Gutierrez and
Gertrudis
Flores. Her
father's will
also stated that
he had a piece
of land in the
community of
(Hacienda of San
Nicolas) with
three hours of
water for
irrigation.
The will stated that her brothers and sisters were as follows: Maria Gertrudis Guajardo Ana Maria Guajardo Isabel Juana Guajardo Jose Guajardo Nicolasa Guajardo Antonia Margarita Guajardo Maria Teresa Guajardo Maria de Jesus Joaquin Guadardo. Francisco de la Garza and Josefa Guajardo were with the founding families of Camargo and they are found in the Census of Camargo on the 31 May of 1750 as a family receiving aid from the government in establishing their homes and later on the census date of 3 of June 1750 as the Sergeant of Camargo under Captain Blas Maria de la Garza Falcon. Four children are listed each time during the census. The following is the text extracted from Francis Seabury's Work, Lawyer at Rio Grande City, Texas, Speaker of the House of Texas and Chronicler of founding families of South Texas. This information was also previously listed in Journal # 9, 1 and 2 of the Hispanic Genealogical Journal of 1991 and also edited in the Book, Family Tree Book by Joel Rene Escobar in 1996. |
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Organization: HOGAR de Dallas President : Dorina Thomas Email : dorinat@earthlink.net Web site : www.home.earthlink.net/~hogardedallas Address : PO Box 570244 Dallas, TX 75337 Organization: Los Bexarenos President : Santiago Escobedo Email : santiagodebejar@sbcglobal.net Web site : www.losbexarenos.org Address : PO Box 1935 San Antonio, TX 78297 Organization: East Texas Hispanic Genealogy Society-----Nacogdoches President : Carmen Salinas Email : ETHGS@hotmail.com Web site : www.ethgs.org Address : PO Box 701185, Houston, Tx 77270 Organization: SAGA Spanish American Genealogy Society ----Corpus Christi President : Sara D. Flores Email : Sara36g64@yahoo.com Web site : www.freewebs.com/sagacorpuschristi Address : 7018 Lake View Dr. Corpus Christi, TX 78412 Organization: Victoria Hispanic Genealogical Society of Texas President : Sophia P. Wilson Email : wilsons1010@gmail.com Address : 701 N. West Street, Victoria, TX 77901 Organization: Hispanic Genealogical Society President : David Garza Email : Gerardo Nevarez Gerardo@nevarezonline.com Web site : www.hispanicgs.org Address : 5023 Oak Shadows Dr. Houston, TX 77091-4529 Organization: Las Porciones Society President : Alejandro Moreno, Jr. Email : amoreno51@hotmail.com Address : PO Box 720623, McAllen, TX 78504 Organization: Tejano Genealogy Society of Austin, Inc. President : Geneva Sanchez Email : joegen@austin.rr.com Address : PO Box 43012, Austin, TX 78704 Organization: Villa de San Agustin de Laredo President : Alfredo Gutierrez Email : gutierrez0265g@yahoo.com Web site : www.vsalgs.org Address : PO Box 450-741, Laredo, TX 78045-0018 Organization: San Elizario Genealogy and Historical Society President : Transito Macias Email : David Macias <davidmacias@comcast.net Address : 1301 Cessna, El Paso, TX 79925 |
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The Essence of
Mexico: Photographs of Mexican Indians in Action Exploring Colonial Mexico Partidos y padrones del obispado de Michoacan, 1680-1685 Fundadación de Reinosa |
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The Essence of Mexico: Mexican Indians in Action, 76,000 photographs to the Nettie Lee Bensen Library. http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utlac/00119/lac-00119.html For a quick view, go to: http://picasaweb.google.com/gojdll/MEXICANCYCLESFestivalImagesByGeorgeOJacksonDeLlano# Sent by Jose M. Pena |
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PERSONAJES
EN LA HISTORIA DE MÉXICO Por:
JOSÉ LEÓN ROBLES DE LA TORRE RUMBO AL BICENTENARIO DE LA INDEPENDENCIA DE MÉXICO, 1810-2010, Y CENTENARIO DE LA REVOLUCIÓN MEXICANA, 1910-2010
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Estudió en el Seminario Conciliar y
en 1804 fue becado para estudiar la carrera de Leyes, recibiendo su título
el día 16 de diciembre de 1811. El 26 de diciembre de 1813, fue
nombrado Síndico del Ayuntamiento de la Ciudad de México. En 1820 fue
nombrado Promotor Fiscal de Guerra, para recaudar impuestos, ya que era
sumamente honrado. En 1822 fue nombrado Jefe de la Fiscalía
de Hacienda y del Crimen y el 21 de octubre de ese mismo año de 1822
fue nombrado Ministro Plenipotenciario en la República de Colombia, sin
que haya podido tomar posesión del cargo por la caída de Iturbide. El 25 de diciembre de 1824 fue electo
Magistrado de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación, por primera
vez, ya que posteriormente volvió a ocupar ese cargo. En 1838, fue
miembro del Supremo Poder Conservador. El 11 de diciembre de 1840 se
formó la Sociedad Ateneo con 66 miembros de lo más granado de la
cultura y él a la cabeza. En 1843 fue Consejero de Estado y
Senador de la República. El 14 de octubre de 1845, fue nombrado
Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores. En 1847 volvió a ser Magistrado de
la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación y poco después, presidente
de la misma. El 16 de septiembre de 1847 fue
nombrado Presidente Sustituto de la República hasta el 12 de noviembre
del mismo año el 27 de septiembre de ese mismo año, trasladó los
Poderes de la Unión a Toluca, por causas de la guerra con los Estados
Unidos. El 14 de noviembre del mismo año,
volvió a ser Ministro de Relaciones Exteriores. El ocho de enero de 1848, volvió a
ser Presidente Sustituto de la República y el dos de febrero de 1848,
con su gobierno en Querétaro, firmó los tratados de Paz y Límites en
Guadalupe, Hidalgo, por el que se perdió la mitad del territorio
nacional. No le quedaba ninguna salida porque los ejércitos
norteamericanos tenían ocupada la Ciudad de México. Muchos le llamaban
traidor y otros, un Presidente que hizo lo mejor posible para la patria
en esos momentos difíciles. En mi obra inédita citada, incluye el
texto íntegro de más de 20 cuartillas, de esos tratados que obtuve de
la Secretaría de Relaciones Exteriores. Peña y Peña dejó la
Presidencia el tres de junio de ese mismo año de 1848. El dos de enero de 1850, víctima de
apoplejía serosa, dejó de existir. Sus restos fueron llevados a la
Rotonda de los Hombres Ilustres en el Panteón Civil de Dolores en la
capital de la República. Yo visité su tumba en 1958 y tomé una
fotografía que obra en mi libro ya citado. En la tumba se encuentra una
placa que dice lo que sigue: "Lic. don Manuel de la Peña y Peña. Nació el 16 de marzo de 1789. Murió el dos de enero de 1850, al sabio comentador de nuestras prácticas forenses. Al Magistrado Integérrimo que venció las pasiones políticas con el arma de la Ley. Al ciudadano insigne que presidió con dignidad el duelo de la Patria. La Academia Mexicana de Jurisprudencia y Legislación correspondiente a la de España, le dedica esta lápida en espera de que generaciones más justas le erijan un monumento a la altura de sus méritos". |
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PERSONAJES
EN LA HISTORIA DE MÉXICO Por: JOSÉ LEÓN ROBLES DE LA TORRE RUMBO AL BICENTENARIO DE LA INDEPENDENCIA DE MÉXICO, 1810 AL 2010 Y DE LA REVOLUCIÓN MEXICANA, 1910 AL 2010 |
En 1818, se incorporó a los Dragones
de México. En septiembre de 1829 fue ascendido a Alférez y en mayo de
1821 a Teniente, entrando en 1821 a la capital de la República con el
Ejército Trigarante, siendo ascendido a Teniente Coronel. El 29 de diciembre de 1827 firmó el
acta que condenó a muerte al General Gregorio Arana. El 12 de febrero de 1831, fue Coronel
Efectivo y en agosto de ese año fue ascendido a General de Brigada. En
abril de 1832, en 15 días pacificó todo el valle de Toluca. En
diciembre de 1832, firmó el Plan de Zavaleta y en ese mismo año fue
nombrado para conducir a Veracruz un millón y medio de pesos, por su
honradez. En marzo de 1833 fue nombrado Comandante General de México, y
el nueve de junio de ese mismo año, lanzó el de Huejotzingo. Santa
Anna ordenó perseguir a Arista por varios lugares del país y ése se
entregó al Gobierno el nueve de octubre de ese mismo año de 1833, y en
noviembre se embarcó en el Vergantín Elvira con rumbo a los Estados
Unidos. En 1835 regresó al país por Veracruz, pero las cosas estaban
muy violentas y le ordenaron reembarcarse, siendo enjuiciado y absuelto
en noviembre de ese mismo año. El 29 de agosto de 1836, el Presidente
José Justo Corro le restituyó su cargo de General de Brigada y lo
nombró Ministro de la Guerra. El 20 de abril de 1837 fue nombrado
Ministro de la Primera Corte de Justicia Marcial. El 12 de julio de 1837
fue miembro de la Junta del Código Militar. A fines de noviembre de
1838, participó en la Guerra de los Pasteles en Veracruz. En 1841, fue ascendido a General de
División. El 11 de junio de 1849, fue nombrado Ministro de Guerra. El
15 de enero de 1851 fue nombrado por el Congreso como Presidente de México,
y en su gobierno trató de mejorar las relaciones con el Vaticano. El
seis de mayo de 1853, salió al destierro con rumbo a Sevilla, España
donde permaneció algún tiempo y luego se embarcó para Portugal en el
Buque de Vapor Tagus y cuando iba en Alta Mar falleció el siete de
agosto de 1855 y permaneció 30 años en el panteón de la familia
Bathas. Luego fueron trasladados sus restos a la rotonda de los Hombres
Ilustres en el Panteón Civil de Dolores en México, D. F., donde tiene
un monumento que retraté en 1958 y que aparece en mi libro citado. Source: El Siglo de Torreón
newspaper: WWW.elsiglodetorreon.com.mx
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La
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Los
franceses, que fueron los mas activos y dadas las condiciones que les
ofrecía el documento firmado en 1827, denominado “Declaraciones
Provisionales” que sentaba las futuras bases de relaciones entre los
dos países, enviaron con rapidez ciudadanos galos para establecerse
en la industria, artesanía y comercio, con lo que consiguieron un
tratamiento especial para todos los que se implantaran en suelo
mexicano Empezaron
a crearse problemas entre unos y otros por reclamaciones que llegaban
a El
embajador francés puso el grito en el cielo y se lo comunicó a París,
además de exigir a México
una explicación que no recibió, por lo que Deffaudis se retiró a
Francia, recogiendo sus credenciales. En marzo volvió con
10 barcos de guerra, fondeando frente a Como
el gobierno del Presidente Bustamante no atendía las peticiones, el
almirante francés, decidió bloquear los puertos del golfo y capturar
barcos mexicanos. A
los ocho meses, viendo que el gobierno Bustamante no cedía ante la
presencia de los barcos, los franceses decidieron enviar en octubre 20
barcos más, a lo que los mexicanos respondieron enviando al General
Santa Ana, que estaba
retirado en su rancho, para solucionarlo. Nada
más llegar a Veracruz y en la primera incursión, los franceses
enviaron unos disparos de artillería, que “volaron” una
pierna del general Santa Ana, que quedó cojo durante el resto
de su vida. Al
final los mexicanos claudicaron y decidieron pagar la mayor parte de
la indemnización pedida por los franceses. Esta es la historia de la
llamada “guerra de los pasteles”.
Custodio Rebollo
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Sra. Mimí. Con mucho afecto reciba un saludo con mis mejores deseos para Ud., también para los participantes y lectores de la Revista SOMOS PRIMOS, así mismo le envío la información que investigué sobre el bautismo y defunción de Don Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara, la cual tiene una gran importancia Histórica para México y Los Estados Unidos de América, en especial para los Estados de Tamaulipas,Texas y Nuevo León.- Márgen superior Izquierdo: Jph. Bernardo Maximiliano, Español. 9 Septiembre de 1 774 " En esta Mission de Sn.Ygnacio de Loyola de Revilla en nueve dias de el mes de Septiembre de este presente año de Mil Sets.Setenta y Quatro, yo Fr. Juan Manuel de la Parra bautisse solemnemente pusse los Santos oleos y Chrisma a un ynfante Español de veinte dias nacido a quien pusse por nombre Joseph Bernardo Maximiliano: hijo lexitimo de Dn. Santiago Gutierres de Lara y de Da. Rossa Maria de Eribe: fueron sus Padrinos D. Jph. Maria Tamayo, y Luna y Da. Maria Josepha Gutierres de Lara, a quienes adverti su obligacion y parentesco espiritual y porque conste lo firme.Vt.Supra. Fr.Juan Manuel de la Parra." Márgen izquierdo: Num°. 535. Don Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara, Adulto de 66 años. Mayo de 1841. "En esta Yglesia Parroquial de la Villa de Santiago en 14 de Mayo de 1841. Mi Vicario El Presbítero Br. Dn. Juan Bautista Zambrano, Dió Sepultura Eclesiastica con entierro mayor en el segundo tramo al Cadáver de Dn.Bernardo Gutierrez de Lara, Adulto, de 66 años, casado qe. fué con Doña Josefa Uribe á quien dejó viuda, recibió los Santos Sacramentos de Penitencia,Sagrado Viatico, y Extrema unción murió de enfermedades habituales, testó, y dejó mandas forsosas, y para qe.conste lo firmé. José Ma. Nuin." Nota. Revilla, actualmente es Nueva Cd.Guerrero del Estado de Tamaulipas. La Villa de Santiago, es Cd. Santiago del Estado de Nuevo León. Investigador de Genealogía e Historia.
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Simple, squat arcades - upper and lower - front the convento, which faces the atrium on the south side of the church. On the upper level, recessed behind the wider center arch is the former open chapel, used by the friars for open air services before the church was built. The lower arcade houses the old baptistry with its original stone font, dated 1570 and carved with the Franciscan cord and monograms of Christ. The monastery doorway opens from the lower arcade leading to the diminutive cloister with its low colonnades and cramped side rooms, one of which contains an early mural showing San Nicolás de Bari in the company of angels and other Franciscan saints. Another, later mural at the top of the narrow stairwell depicts St. Christopher, the bringer of Christ to the New World - who is frequently shown in Mexican Franciscan monasteries. Another stone basin carved with rosettes and rimmed by the Franciscan cord occupies the center of the cloister patio. |
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convento, the church and the retablos was recently completed under the auspices of INAH-CONACULTA and Adopte una Obra de Arte. SA * Look for our forthcoming guide to Mexican Carved Stone Crosses * For more on the Franciscan missions and monasteries in the region consult our archive as well as our guidebook, Mexico's Fortress Monasteries. * Note: located close to ancient Teotihuacan, Oxtoticpac is a worthwhile addition to any tour of neighboring monasteries, including Acolman and Otumba. http://www.colonial-mexico.com/Central%20Mexico/oxto.html Richard Perry rperry@west.net |
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VIRREINATO "De Novohispanos a mexicanos" (29 junio, INAHTV, 3:01 min.) Retratos realizados durante los siglos XVIII y XIX pertenecientes a la exposición "De Novohispanos a mexicanos". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FR_iCzxSHx8&playnext_from=TL&videos=Cemvv5gzY1U INDEPENDENCIA DE MÉXICO "Exposición memorias de libertad" (30 junio, INAHTV, 0:40 min.) Exposición temporal presentada en el Museo Regional de Puebla con motivo de la participación del estado durante la Independencia de México. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffQMtWEAVs0&playnext_from=TL&videos=h6Y3fRtnHaw "Museo histórico de San Miguel de Allende" (1 julio, INAHTV, 3:01min.) Breve historia de la casa de Allende, actualmente Museo Histórico de San Miguel de Allende. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHCjs5BiI-U&playnext_from=TL&videos=xsfRfc5DNQI "Indígenas en la Independencia y Revolución" (7julio, INAHTV, 1:26min.) La participación indígena durante ambos movimientos . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9TaC3PK7s&playnext_from=TL&videos=q1PkWcxtCZc MÉXICO INDEPENDIENTE "Un singular entierro" (6 julio, INAHTV, 0:48min.) El entierro de la pierna de Santa Ana. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FLO8GFEJS0&playnext_from=TL&videos=AFUaWbHqT9o "José María Velasco" (8 julio, INAHTV, 0:53min.) La incursión de José María Velasco fuera del ámbito artístico. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heTRtBhV7Kg&playnext_from=TL&videos=Q-p9mf-1qDA REVOLUCIÓN MEXICANA "Flores Magón" (9 julio, INAHTV, 1:59min.) La participación de los hermanos Flores Magón como movimiento previo a la revolución. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa5Ax3ytZoQ&playnext_from=TL&videos=YqGU6Au8B5k CONTEMPORÁNEO "La ciudad de México" (28 de junio, Discutamos México programa 63, 50:24min.) Participan: Jorge Legorreta e Iván Restrepo, modera: Carlos Monsiváis. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaUwf84V8E4&playnext_from=TL&videos=p8Z3NZvXrZ8 "El federalismo mexicano" (28 junio, Discutamos México programa 64, 50:27min.) Participan: Alicia Hernández, María del Carmen Pardo y Fausto Hernández Trillo, modera: Enrique Cabrero. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEZ5RUIR4bM&feature=channel "El sistema municipal mexicano" (28 junio, Discutamos México programa 65, 50:48min.) Participan: Blanca Acedo, Tonatiuh Guillén y Enrique Cabrero, modera: Mauricio Merino Huerta. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJygolQUC2c&feature=channel "El humor en México" (5 julio, Discutamos México programa 66, 50:45min.) Participan:Eugenio Derbez, Enrique Hernández Alcázar y Tito Vasconcelos, modera: Katia D´Artigues http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li4GkElXJws&feature=related "Sociología y Ciencia Política" (5 julio, Discutamos México programa 67, 50:15min.) Participan: Fernando Castañeda, Francisco Valdés y Carlos Tello, modera:Carlos Elizondo Mayer-Serra http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMVvE5txKmU&feature=channel "Movimientos sociales" (5 julio, Discutamos México programa 68, 48:55) Participan: Gustavo Gordillo de Anda, Clara Jusidman y Carlos Monsiváis, modera: Rolando Cordera Campos http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXPwyJ_L5eI&feature=channel Benicio Samuel Sanchez Email: samuelsanchez@genealogia.org.mx Website: http://www.Genealogia.org.mx Cell Phone (81) 1667-2480 |
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El Capitán Carlos Cantu Gonzales-Hidalgo, fundó la Villa de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe de Reinosa el 14 de marzo de 1749, acompañado de doscientas veinte y tres personas; dichas personas fueron censadas, como Primeros Pobladores de Reinosa y el capitán como fundador y justicia mayor de la villa. Mencionar o considerar a los primeros pobladores como fundadores, es una grave error, pues nunca existieron fundadores de Reinosa en plural, sino fundador en singular, siendo el capitán, la única persona que merece el honor de referírsele como fundador. Considero que el término erróneo, es un vicio idiomático que muchas personas usan, por que piensan que se oye bonito; por ignorancia y/o a consecuencia de una historia oral deficiente que han venido arrastrando por generaciones; y también por no darse el tiempo, ni tener interés en consultar en los documentos de antaño, que se encuentran en el Archivo Histórico Municipal de Reynosa. El uso de la palabra fundadores, es correcto por ejemplo, cuando refieren a los fundadores de las villas del Nuevo Santander (hoy Tamaulipas), pues queda claro que se trata de cada uno de los capitanes que fundaron cada una de las villas a mediados del siglo XVI, por mencionar dos casos, les comento que el Capitan Blas Maria de la Garza Falcon de Villarreal, fue el fundador de la Villa de Camargo y el colonizador del Nuevo Santander, fue el Coronel Jose de Escandon y Helguera. En el acta de fundación de cada villa, cada Capitán al mencionar fundación siempre habla en primera persona, señalando a sus acompañantes como primeros pobladores y en algunos casos como colonos, pero nunca como fundadores. Por otra parte en el caso de Monterrey, si es correcto decir, los fundadores de Monterrey, pues ésta fue fundada tres veses, por tres personas distintas: la primera, por el Capitán Alberto del Canto Vieira en 1577; la segunda, por el Capitán Luis de Carvajal y de la Cueva en 1582; y la tercera por Diego de Montemayor Hernandes el 20 de septiembre de 1596. El reparto del 7 de septiembre de 1777, de las ochenta porciones en la villa de Reinosa, es otro documento que deja evidenciado que los beneficiados por los Autos de la General Visita, no son fundadores, pues cuando se les menciona, los refiere en tres categorias: 1.-Primitivo Poblador, al que tiene mas de seis años en la Villa; 2.- Antiguo Poblador, al que tiene mas de dos años y menos de seis años en la villa, y 3. - Agregado Poblador, al que tiene menos de dos años en la villa. Sin embargo, el término de primer poblador llevaba aparejados una serie de prerrogativas, incluidas encomiendas de indios, y mercedes de tierras, por lo que era muy importante decirse primer poblador, o al menos decendiente de algún primer poblador y así solicitar porción de tierra y encomiendas. También es correcto decir, las primeras familias de Reinosa, cuando se trate de referir a las personas que acompañaron al capitán en la fundación. |
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Alicia Alonso, the longtime director of the National Ballet of Cuba, no longer dances with her feet, which, on Monday afternoon at a hotel near Lincoln Center, were daintily crossed at the ankle in a pair of ladylike slingbacks. Well, not really. But it doesn’t work to force Ms. Alonso to do anything she doesn’t want to do. “I mean there’s nothing I can talk about,” she said. “I’m still a Cuban, I have a ballet company that represents my country, and I’m proud of it. Very.” Ms. Alonso’s return to Ballet Theater evokes emotions that she said were difficult to put into words. “It reminds me of all the years of my working here, my friends, the times we toured during the war and of performing. It’s a whole life. We were creating the future of the ballet in the United States. It was such a dream.”
Ms. Alonso joined Ballet Theater in 1940, but an eye operation sent her back to Cuba, and she rejoined the company in 1943. But as helpless as some might imagine her to be, Ms. Alonso is quite sharp with what seems to be a selective understanding of English depending on the question. It took three attempts, for instance, to find out whether she was grooming a successor for her company. After sensing that the line “I don’t understand” wasn’t going to get her off the hook, she finally blurted: “No. I think they’re good all by themselves. They are very capable people, I’m sure. I hope.” (Merrily, she crossed her fingers.) As for her legacy, she said: “I don’t want to be remembered. I just don’t want to be forgotten.”
Ms. Alonso’s mantra clearly has much to do with being young at heart. If she should ever step down as director of the Cuban company, she might find work as a life coach.
“If a person keeps thinking, ‘How old am I going to be?’ and thinking about the age” — she raised her voice — “that’s the worst thing you can do. You don’t have to think about how old you are. You have to think about how many things you want to do and how to do it and keep on doing it.”
She clapped her hands and added: “Otherwise, you know what I think? I am going to live to be 200 years old. So I hope all of you do have the same fortune. I would hate to be alone.”
American Ballet Theater honors Alicia Alonso on Thursday at 7:30 p.m. at the Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center; (212) 362-6000 or abt.org.
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Paulino Alcántara Riestrá RP legend in world football
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ILOILO CITY—As the World Cup fever nears its climax in South Africa, basketball-crazy Filipinos should know that they have a hero to inspire them to switch to football as a national passion. And it’s not the great Pelé of Brazil, Argentinian legend Diego Maradona or the current world top player Lionel Messi, also of Argentina, or heartthrob Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal. Long before these heroes burst into the global football scene, there was Iloilo-born Paulino Alcantara. Alcantara, born to a Spanish military officer and an Ilongga mother on Oct. 7, 1896, is considered to be one of the sport’s legends, especially in Spain. While he is largely unknown to Filipinos and even Ilonggos, he is revered in the world football community with tributes and memorial sites devoted to him in the Internet. ‘‘He may be unknown even to the young players, but he is an icon to many of us,” said Pablito Araneta, also from Iloilo and former vice president of the Philippine Football Federation (PFF), which groups around 35 football associations in the country. Alcantara scored an astonishing 357 goals in as many games played, or an average of one goal per game, as a striker of the Futbol Club Barcelona (Barcelona Football Club) where he played from 1912 to 1927, according to the club’s website. Barcelona star: He also helped Barcelona, one of the top clubs in the current Spanish league, win five Spanish championships and 10 Catalan League championships, the first professional football league in Spain during that period. His strength was legendary. Medium built and lacking the physique of a professional athlete, he, nevertheless, earned the title “El Romperedes (Net Breaker)” on April 30, 1922, after a powerful kick 35 yards from the goal ripped the net in a game between Spain and France. ‘‘For many years after, children from Barcelona would recall that moment and would wish to do the same as the man from the Philippines,” according to Alcantara’s profile in the FC Barcelona website. Except for online accounts, however, there is little information on Alcantara and his family. Araneta said a research conducted by PFF in 2007 during the commemoration of the centennial of Philippine football showed that Alcantara’s father was a Spanish military officer stationed in Iloilo. Other accounts identified his mother as surnamed Riestrá. No official records: Ilonggo historian and lawyer Rex Salvilla said he has not come across official records of Alcantara and his family, which could explain why he is not well known among Ilonggos. Salvilla noted that Alcantara was only 2 years old during the Philippine Revolution in 1898. His father, being a Spanish official, could have gone home and brought his family to avoid imprisonment or could have surrendered before taking his family with him to Spain, Salvilla said. But according to various accounts posted in the website www.world-football-legends.co.uk/alcantara/php, Alcantara came to Spain when he was 14 years old, a year before he debuted with FC Barcelona. He returned to the Philippines in 1916, or when he was 20 years old, and played for two years with the Bohemians, a Filipino football club. He returned to Spain and resumed playing with his club in 1918 where he rose to become a legend. On the other hand, in it’s Philippine football centennial issue, the Pinoy Football Magazine, published by the PFF, said Alcantara became the youngest player to wear the FC Barcelona jersey when he started playing for the club when he was 15. Missing the Olympics: But more than becoming a football star, Alcantara was dedicated to becoming a doctor and did not play in the 1920 Olympic Games to study medicine. He retired from football in 1927 to dedicate his time to medicine but he briefly coached the Spanish national team in 1951, which was unbeaten in the three matches that he steered the team. Alcantara died in Barcelona on Feb. 13, 1964, at the age of 67, according to the FC Barcelona website. It was also during Alcantara’s peak that the Philippines became an Asian football powerhouse with the country bagging the gold in the 1913 Far Eastern Games, the forerunner of the Asian Games. Routing Japan: While Alcantara missed the 1913 games, he played four years later as part of the national team that routed Japan 15-2 in their match in Tokyo. Japan was among the Asian teams that qualified in the round of 18 in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. ‘‘That rout of Japan was the highest that the Philippines had advanced in international football,” Araneta said. World’s No. 169: The international football federation Fifa currently ranks the Philippines 169th out of 207 member-countries in men’s football. Despite the Filipinos’ preference for basketball and boxing, football players and fans have increasingly drawn inspiration from Alcantara’s exploits to raise local awareness and passion for the sport. A life-size statue of Alcantara was unveiled at the PFF office at the PhilSports Complex in Pasig during the football centennial commemoration in 2007, said PFF general secretary Chito Manuel. In Alcantara’s home province of Iloilo where football is popular especially in Barotac Nuevo town, dubbed the ‘‘Football Capital of the Philippines,” players and fans can readily cite Alcantara as proof that Filipinos can do well and even be among the greatest in the international football arena. “We don’t have to stop at watching the World Cup and cheering for our idols. A hundred years ago, an Ilonggo already showed us the way to greatness,” said Duffie Botavara, president of the Barotac Nuevo Footbal Club See his picture also this site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulino_Alc%C3%A1ntara Nestor Palugod Enriquez www.filipinohome.com Sent by Rafel Ojeda Tacoma, Washington |
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Interview with the Hispanic Genealogist Daniela Massolo Digitalización
del Archivo del Libertador para Su posterior Publicación en Internet El Amante de la Reina by Custodio Rebollo |
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Interview with the Hispanic Genealogist Daniela Massolo |
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Digitalización
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¿De quien son estos caballos? -
De Mallo, que dicen corteja a una vieja fea y gasta y triunfa a su
costa.-respondió el Príncipe de -
Ya sabes que Manuel, (por Godoy), está siempre de broma. Aunque
nunca se pudo probar, pero en todas las comidillas cortesanas, no solo
de aquí, sino de Venezuela, de donde había llegado el tal Manuel
Mallo, lo vinculaban como amante de Manuel
Mallo, parece que había nacido en Colombia, pero de familia noble
venezolana, no tenía mucho talento, pero si unas excepcionales
condiciones físicas De simple Guardia de Corps, en muy poco tiempo
fue ascendido a mayordomo de semana en Palacio. Estaba muy bien
relacionada en Madrid y tenia una residencia amplia, en la que vivía
también su amigo Esteban Palacios, que era tío carnal de un joven
llamado Simón Bolívar. Por eso, cuando Bolívar fue enviado a España,
en mayo de 1799, para ampliar sus estudios, vivió durante algún
tiempo en la casa de Manuel Mallo La
amistad de Esteban Palacios con Mallo, le permitió
obtener las charreteras de Alférez a Simón Bolívar, que
empezó a codearse con Contaba
un Guardia de Corps llamado Gálvez Cañero, que una noche en la que
iba por delante Carlos IV, y discutiendo varios metros detrás, Godoy
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The original house complex was the residence of Texas patriot José Antonio Navarro (1795–1871). Navarro first bought the property, about 1.5 acres, in 1832. The limestone, caliche block and adobe structures were built circa 1832–1855, and Navarro moved onto the property soon after.
Saint Clare of Assisi (sometimes spelled Clair, Claire,
etc.), born Chiara Offreduccio (July 16, 1194 – August 11,
1253) is a 
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Juan Marinez
Atlanta,
GA (June 15, 2010) -- On Tuesday, June 29th at 11:30 a.m., history
will be made as the first African American in the state of Georgia
will be inducted into the National Society, Sons of the American
Revolution (NSSAR). In a ceremony at the Georgia State Capitol,
Lieutenant Commander Michael Nolden Henderson, a retired U.S. Naval
Officer and graduate of Xavier University of Louisiana, will be
acknowledged by induction into the Button Gwinnett Chapter, the
Georgia Society SAR for his efforts in tracing his Louisiana Creole
ancestry to an American Revolutionary War patriot.
Exploring
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"Today with the advancement of medicine, knowing the history of our family could save or at least improve the quality of life for our families."
Daniela is an important genealogist that lives in Argentina. Her great interest, research and passion for genealogy resulted in several web pages, one recently launched in English. These sites are of a great interest and guide for all those who are new to genealogy. Also can be a great resource for people that are investigating their Spanish roots. For MyHeritage it is an honor to present this interview we did with her.