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Somos Primos August 2015

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Dear Primos and friends:
Wonderful heritage related projects and events are happening. It appears many of us are feeling a desire to know who we really are, searching and defending our heritage through diverse activities.
Finding out that:

"In many ways each of us is the sum total of what our ancestors were.
The virtues they had may be our virtues, their strengths our strengths, and in a way their challenges could be our challenges."
(James E. Faust, Ensign, Nov. 2003, pg. 53)

Surely the social challenges of the 19th and 20th century are still with us, and our ancestors faced them also. Probably to a greater degree.
Somos Primos seeks out success stories to give us hope that through our efforts, we Latinos can make the world a better place for all.

"We may be of different political persuasions, but one thing we can all agree on, is what is best for our people," Delia Gonzalez Huffman.
http://www.mexicocircleoffriends.org/ Delia, retired marketing
executive, has set up a website to react to negative media coverage, to facilitate and assist us in protecting our past.

With deep gratitude to readers who continue to support Somos Primos by sending personal stories, extracted articles, and tidbits of information. The diversity of readership is reflected in the varied selection of information that I receive.

Special thanks to Dorinda Moreno who was surely a friend to all in this issue. Dorinda sent 18 pieces, which are scattered throughout the August issue!!

God bless our efforts in sharing historic truth . . .
Mimi

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Somos Primos August 2015

UNITED STATES
San Antonio Missions Achieve World Heritage Recognition Alamo, Spanish missions in San Antonio named World Heritage Site report
by:
Jim Forsyth; Editing by Daniel Wallis and Frances Kerry Plan to Replace Father Serra Statue in U.S. Capitol Halted We, the people of Mexican-descent by Joe Lopez Lessons My Mexican Father Taught Me by Alvaro Huerta, Ph.D.
Congress Lauds American G.I. Forum Founder Garcia By Rudi Williams
Documentary: On Two Fronts: Latinos & Vietnam written By Sara Bibel

Smithsonian Portrays Civil Rights Struggle, Dolores Huerta by Melanie Bencosme The Saga of Cesar Chavez By James DiEugenio Ruthless Power/Deleterious Politics: From DDT to Roundup By Evaggelos Vallianatos

Latino activists
Dedication Rewarded: Prominent Mexican Americans by Verónica Salazar Political Activist Rosie Castro (Mom to Joaquín and Julián) Hispanics in federal employment

Rita Moreno, legendary actress and singer, Kennedy Center Honors recipients Jesús S.Treviño, Chicano media pioneer and LATINOPIA Wonderwoman Broke the Chains Limiting Women

Senator Orrin Hatch Addresses 86th Annual LULAC Presidential Awards Banquet Roger C. Rocha, Jr. Elected LULAC National President at 86th Annual Conference Reflections from the 2015 NCLR Annual Conference

Immigrants' visas expire but many remain, despite repercussions Children of Undocumented Immigrants Denied Citizenship by Melissa del Bosque Chinese now top U.S. immigrant arrivals by Erika Lee Immigration and Nationality Records and Research Census Bureau Links Terms of Identity: What’s in a Name? By Felipe de Ortego y Gasca Synopsis for Searching for America in the Streets of Laredo by Fernando Pinon

History of the Star Spangled Banner
USS New York LPD-21: Forged from the steel of the World Trade Center TV Host Tomi Hahren says in two minutes What We're ALL Thinking

HERITAGE PROJECTS
Visiting Our Spanish American Heritage by Eddie Martinez Latest Update on the Three Rivers Historical Marker by Wanda Garcia Bernardo de Gálvez Statue commissioned by Pensacola Heritage Foundation History in Motion: Shaping San Francisco Latino Lens

HISTORIC TIDBITS
World heritage status for The Alamo By Christoph Noelting and Frank Jordans June 26th, 1832 -- Mexican garrison surrenders in prelude to Texas Revolution June 27th, 1874 -- Indian raiders strike again at Adobe Walls June 5th, 1873 -- Margaret Borland dies of "trail fever"
July 4th, 1845 -- Convention considers annexation Confederate Battle Flags, 1861-1865

HISPANIC LEADERS
Carlos B. Vega, Spanish language educator, writer September 22, 1938
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Mario "Sonny" Madrid, Editor of Lowrider Magazine Jan. 19, 1945 - June 22, 2015

LATINO AMERICAN PATRIOTS
31st Annual Fourth of July Patriotic Ceremony, Granaderos y Damas de
Galvez, San Antonio
Spain to turn over to U.S. documents linked to American independence

EARLY LATINO PATRIOTS
31st Annual Fourth of July Patriotic Ceremony,
Granaderos y Damas de Galvez, San Antonio
Spain to turn over to U.S. documents linked to American independence
The Tejano Connection to the American Revolution by Dan Arellano

SURNAMES: De Ortega

FAMILY HISTORY:
People Search Online: Strategies for Finding Living People
By Kimberly Powell

EDUCATION
Fantasy Sports Daily Private Scholarship Opportunity
Hispanic-Serving Institutions in the 21st Century
LNESC , Stem Explorers
86th LULAC Conference in Salt Lake Job Core area
Early Education for Hispanics in Chicago
Red Nose Day A Success! Over $21 million raised to fight childhood
poverty
New Americans with their Old World values by Esther Bonilla Read
The California-Mexico Studies Center

CULTURE
91-year-old Peruvian finishes translating Don Quijote to Quechua by
Hillary Ojeda
Maestro del Canto Latinoamericano, Rafael Manriquez
True life story of Chicano Rock Legend Little Willie G.
Juan Felipe Herrera new U.S. poet laureate: 'Shout it from the roof
tops'
Nezahualcoyotl and the Poetry of Aztlan by Felipe de Ortego y Gasca
Leslie Cartaya: From Cuba To Cromwell…A Singer’s Journey by Jay Sloves

BOOKS AND PRINT MEDIA
2015 International Latino Book Awards
Author Herman Willas speaks of the 2015 Book Awards experience.
Review of Victor Gonzalez 2014 International Book Awards winner
Insurgency: 1968 Aztec Walkout
A discussion of the Meaning of . . . Con Safos
The Feast of San Sebastian by Norma Burgos Vázquez
Acción Latina receives ‘Latino Americans: 500 Years of History’ grant
Review of: Latin Blues - A Tale of Police Omerta By Joe Sanchez

ORANGE COUNTY, CA
August 8th: SHHAR Board Meeting:
Heads up on local historical event: September 26, 2015: 16th Annual
Logan Barrio Reunion

LOS ANGELES COUNTY
Documentary: Weaving the Past, Journey of Discovery by Walter Dominguez
Book: House of Aragon: Chapter 8 by Michael S. Perez
Pope Francis Appoints Fr. Robert Barron Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles
August 2nd, 2015: Celebration of Our Lady of Rocio will take place
Update on the Restoration of the Fort Moore Monument
View Park Arts and Cultural Foundation
'Black Beverly Hills' debates historic status vs. white gentrification
Phenomenon of Gentrification: Barrio Self-determination
Viewer response: Weaving the Past: Journey of Discovery

CALIFORNIA
Report: The Status of Latinos in California
June 27, 2015 Los Californianos honor Ancestors
at Presidio of San Francisco
The Mission Santa Clara Manuscript Archives Collection
Family-Owned Mexican Joints Endure in San Francisco By Emma Neiman
Somos America
Congratulations to Madeline Martinez Lozano on her 99th Birthday July
18th
Logan Heights: The Occupation of Neighborhood House… …
and the birth of the Chicano Free Clinic By Maria E. Garcia

NORTHWESTERN, US
Museum of Mormon History of the Americas commemorated 100th anniversary
of execution of Rafael Monroy and Vicente Morales
The Catalonian Volunteers
American Latino Heritage: Discover Our Shared Heritage: Olympic National
Park
Cole Holland College, Salt Lake, Utah

SOUTHWESTERN, US
When I was a Kid, Part 3 of 3: Growing up, Grandpa Liben Serna and
school,
by Louis "Frankie" Serna

TEXAS
Searching for America in the Streets of Laredo: the Mexican American
Experience in the Anglo American Narrative by Fernando Pinon
October 8-10: 36TH Annual Texas State Hispanic Genealogical and
Historical
Conference hosted by Villa San Agustin de Laredo Genealogical
Society
July 9th, 1716 - Spaniards found East Texas mission
Col. José de Escandón y Helguera, Tejanos or Coahuiltecos Lino
Garcia,Jr. Ph.D.
Laredo International Airport
Rincón de la Historia, Laredo, Sábado 11 de Julio de 2015
August 15, 2015: Battle of Medina
Zapata County Records
We Are Cousins blog by Moises Garza
List of Alamo defenders on the Texian side
Honoring Navarro Scholarship Recipients
Exploring San Felipe: The 1826 Census of Austin’s Colony
Happy Tenth Anniversary: Rio Grande Guardian, a media leader by Jose
Antonio Lopez

MIDDLE AMERICA
African-Americans on the Great Plains by Claire Marie O'Brien

EAST COAST
El Galeón, replica of the ship, traveled the coasts of Florida 500 years
ago
Founding Day 2015 Historical Re-enactment & St. Augustine's 450th
Anniversary
Crossbones, the True Legend of Blackbeard
Peruvian Indigenous Craftsman Will Weave Grass into a 60-Foot Suspension
Bridge

AFRICAN-AMERICAN
Misty Copeland, first black female principal in American Ballet Theatre.
From Slave to Celebrated Chef: The Surprising Story of Nat Fuller
David L. Nash, Education and Outreach Liaison
National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health
June 30th, 1882 - Henry Flipper is dismissed from the military

INDIGENOUS
Cherokees in Battle of the Neches
The Ordeal of Manuel Ramirez Martinez by Jose Antonio Lopez
33 Native Tribes have been awarded the Congressional Gold medal
Jumano Indians, excerpt from Nancy P. Hickerson's book

SEPHARDIC
CUFI Action Fund
Why the Jews Are the Canary in the Coal Mine by J. P. Golbert

ARCHAEOLOGY
Two metal vessels discovered at Purunilacta de Soloco, Amazonas
By Hillary Ojeda
Eve of Naharon

MEXICO
Slave in the Fields: A reporter goes undercover in the San Quintin
Valley
Los fundadores de Monterrey
Colonias coming out of the shadows
Una gota de mi Sangre de Maria Elena Rodriquez Benitez
Jóvenes binacionales, Carlos Heredia Zubieta
Noticias sobre familias de antiguo obispado de Michoacan, 1700-1730
The not so well known descendants of Francisco Gonzalez Prieto
El general José Francisco Naranjo de la Garza, 1839-1908
1565 record from the Distrito Federal in Mexico
Don Porfirio Diaz y el Porfirato, 1884-1911
Matrimonio Don Porfirio Díaz y la Señorita Doña Carmen Romero Fuentes.
Centenario defunción del Señor General Don Porfirio Díaz
Don Manuel González Flores
Presidente de la República Mexicana
Juana Catarina, hija de padres desconocidos
Agosto 13 y 14 de 2015: Segundo Coloquio de Genealogía e historia
de la Familia que se efectaurá en la Universidad de
Agusacalientes

CARIBBEAN REGION
Little Havana is One of Eleven Most Endangered Historic Sites
Ana Sofia Peláez: “Food is a way of telling our history”
War Against All Puerto Ricans: Revolution and Terror by Denis Nelson

CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA
How the Inca Empire Engineered a Road Across Some of the World's Most
Extreme Terrain
By Hannah Bloch

PHILIPPINES
The Rising Star of Chula Vista: Jason Paguio
Filipinos in the Ukraine by Eddie AAA Calderón, Ph.D.
The Coming of the First African-Americans to the Philippines
by Eddie AAA Calderón, Ph.D.
Evangeline Canonizado Buell Memories

SPAIN
Marinaleda, Spain
Por José Antonio Crespo-Francés
Españoles olvidados. Galeón de Manila o Nao de la China
El monolito de las cabezas cortadas de Dingle

INTERNATIONAL
Europe's Great Migration Crisis by Soeren Kern
Naval Air Station Atsugi, Japan
The Troubling Question in the French Jewish Community: Is It Time to
Leave?
By Marie Brenner, Vanity Fair