Holiday in Oregon
Oregon notable latinos Padilla Andrews, Clara (1941-). Padilla Andrews is owner and publisher of El Hispanic News. This newspaper, founded in 1981 by Juan Prats, is the oldest bilingual …
Category: History
North Dakota
North Dakota chronology 1492 Spanish Crown claims present-day North Dakota. 1682 The explorer Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de la Salle, claims all land drained by the Mississippi, as well …
Wisconsin Vacations
The struggle for Latino recognition and worker’s rights continued into the 1970s. A report from the Governor’s Investigating Committee on Problems of Wisconsin’s Spanish Speaking Communities in 1971 sums …
Corrido Pensilvanio
A corrido is a Mexican narrative song or ballad based on oral tradition. Especially popular in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands between 1880 and 1930, the cor-rido highlights important social, political, …
Virginia Guide for Tourist
In Virginia, Salvadorans represent the largest share of Latino newcomers. For them, religious institutions have been particularly instrumental, given the circumstances surrounding their exit from El Salvador and arrival …
Travel to Texas
Statehood, the Civil War, and the Late Nineteenth Century Both the Mexican War and statehood complicated the relationship between the United States and Texas. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo …
Wisconsin Guide for Tourist
Wisconsin NOTABLE LATINOS Samudio, Alcario (1937-). Alcario Samudio, a longtime advocate for Latinos in the Midwest and Texas, grew up in Mercedes, Texas, but migrated with his family for …
Oregon Vacations
Oregon cultural contributions The cultural and political landscapes of Oregon are quite different in this new century than they were fifty years ago. Today, the Mexican and Latino American …
Washington bibliography
Apostolidis, Paul. The State of the State of Washington’s Latinos: 2008. http://www. whitman.edu/politics/state_of_the_state/read.cfm. Compean, Mario. Mexican Americans in the Columbia Basin: A Historical Overview. Columbia River Basin Ethnic History …
Washington
Elizabeth Rink Washington chronology 1774 The Spanish explorer Juan Perez arrives on the Santiago in Washington State with a crew primarily of Mexican sailors. 1790-1792 The first non-Native American …