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Somos Primos, March 2015 Letter
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Dear Primos and Friends:

The March 2015 issue of Somos Primos is filled with the latest heritage projects, events, and celebrations, but also archived articles , tidbits and essays 10, 20, and even 30 plus years old. Since the mid 1980s when I started editing a print quarterly of Somos Primos, I have been saving historical items that enlarged my understanding or gave me a new perspective. My files are full and I plan to continue sharing.

I think many of us are beginning to realize that only upon reflecting on our past, within the framework of society of that time, can we fully grasp what we experienced and why.

A documentary by Hector Galan about the 1955 movie, `Giant’ will be on PBS stations in April, and will help to clarify the prejudice Mexican Americans were experiencing. We all can remember incidents, but cannot be buried under them. We must use our increased historical understanding to be enlighten and uplifted.

I continue to receive fascinating articles of personal histories, reflecting time periods and locations. Refugio Salinas Fernandez wrote about the Globo Theater in Corpus Christi, Tx. His father owned and ran the theater, and he as a youth, worked it. (In high school student, I was an usherette in the single theater in Manteca, CA) Samuel Saenz, Jr. writes about the importance of the trains in the Mexican community of Alice, Tx. (Trains and Union Station in Los Angeles were a big part of life in Los Angeles) Galal Kernahan writes about arranging to bring Cook Island dancers to perform in Garden Grove in 1983. (I live in the city right next to Garden Grove.) Though different from my life, I find I can always relate in some way to the life stories I receive.

Hopefully as you read through this issue, you will be touched and moved to write your own stories and memories. A good example of writing and compiling life stories is that of a dear friend, Viola Rodriguez Sadler Her blog is at: http://memoriasymemories.blogspot.com. Do check it out. Her stories are darling and many.

If you don’t feel you have enough stories to mount a blog, send them to Somos Primos and share yourself that way. Your story and life is unique. You are the only one that lived it.

God bless, Mimi

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

UNITED STATES
Alejandro Inarritu wins best director Oscar for 'Birdman'
Can South Pacific Islanders be "Primos"? by Galal Kernahan, 1983 Current Administration Using Century-Old Racist Case Law to Block Citizenship American Samoans born on US soil, but denied birthright citizenship.
Children of "Giant" Documentary screened in San Antonio, February 21 Hispanic scientists and inventors, 1995 List Ed Roybal, received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, November 24, 2014.
Latino elected officials by state: 1996 and 2004 American GI Forum of Texas, Inc. The Beatrice T. Perez Robstown, Women's Chapter Hispanic Population in Select U.S. Metropolitan Areas The Spanish Presence in the Americas, Government Report, July 2001 Cultural and Linguistic Diversity: The New Norm by Kathy Escamilla, Dec
1988
A New Perspective on History by Jana Rivera, (circa 1990) University of Texas at Austin call for Submissions to the LULAC Archives Why we speak Spanish in Texas by José Antonio López No Nopales yet by Gustavo Arellano Hollywood's Latino Problem: By the Numbers Dying Communities, Forgotten Memories by Rodolfo F. Acuña

HERITAGE PROJECTS
Walking the streets of Spain while sketching and listening for voices from the past by Eddie Martinez, edited and translated in Spanish by Viola Rodriguez Sadler Justice for Menchaca: Project to Correct spelling of Menchaca in Austin street signs Help us Save a Historic Place you Love!
The Blue Lady, Sor Maria of Agreda, 4th Annual Pilgrimage

HISTORIC TIDBITS
February 8th, 1830 -- Last Franciscan in early Texas relinquishes missions February 16th, 1599 -- Lone Survivor of the Bonilla Expedition Found This Day in History Website Phrases you probably use, but never knew why

HISPANIC LEADERS
Arthur L. Alarcon: 9th U.S. Circuit's first Latino judge August 14, 1925 – January 28, 2015 Tomás Mendirichaga Cueva falleció el día 5 de diciembre de 2014 Wallace R. Davis: March 21, 1935 – November12, 1994 Alfonso Texidor: Poet, Friend, Mission Icon 1946 - December 25, 2014

AMERICAN PATRIOTS
Congressional Gold Medal Recipients, "The Devil's Brigade"
Portraits of Valor: Sgt. Roy Benavidez
War memorial separates dead by race, divides Southern city By Jeffery Collins
9/11 Hero Rick Rescorla Statue Unveiled
Networking, Networking, Networking
My Patriot Supply . . We want your Family's Story

EARLY LATINO PATRIOTS
Elba Zaida (Sanchez) Ramos November 4, 1933 - January 30, 2015

SURNAMES:
Almeida , 1993
Salvador. . . Millan . . . Becerra . . . Redondo . . . < all 1991 DNA Scientists debate concept of race
CNBC: Powerful men may have fathered big chunks of world:
DNA study by Robert Ferris
DNA and Pedigree Data Combined
Augment DNA data with John Inclan Pedigrees FAMILY HISTORY Javier Tobón Gónima New Year card, a way of Celebrating Family Pedro Saldivar and the Grandfathers of Refugio Fernandez Portuguese research Collection, US Library of Congress Billion Graves Index United States Passport Applications, 1795-1925

EDUCATION
The Importance of school vouchers by Alan Bosteel and Larry Sand March 26th: Global Latino Education & Advocacy Days Summit "Bridging Latino Education in Latin America and U.S."
A Latina/o K-12 and Higher Education Policy Agenda in Texas Dr. Estela Lopez Tackles New Challenge As Interim Head of State’s University System The UTRGV Vaquero is only the beginning by José Antonio López

CULTURE
Flaco Jimenez, Grammy Award Winner
Artist Martín Ramírez US Postal stamps
A South Texas Christmas by José Antonio López

BOOKS, PRINT and MEDIA
Preserving Early Texas History by Jose Antonio Lopez Reluctant Dawn, Biography of Padre Martinez by Santiago Valdez Marine Sgt. Freddy Gonzalez, Vietnam War Hero by John W. Flores New Somos en Escritos homepage McFarland, USA is a Latino Themed Movie Worth Seeing

ORANGE COUNTY, CA
March 14: SHHAR, John Schmal, Finding Your Ancestors in Mexico March 7, 2015: Reception, Chicano Heroes of Aztlan, Exhibit up until April 4, 2015 March 12, 2015: PTSD Forum, 6 -8:30 PM Dr. Fruchter - a global leader in treatment of Trauma; plus Panel discussion Modern California Mirrors the World, Agustin Gurza, June 22, 1999 Twin Towns on the Santa Ana by Shefrah Ann Rozenstain, October 1993

LOS ANGELES COUNTY
The House of Aragon, Chapter 3, The Making of a Warrior by Michael S.
Perez
El Sereno Veterans Monument-flagpole named in honor of WWII Hero Guy Gabaldon March 25th: Eugene A. Obregon Congressional Medal of Honor Memorial Event March 6, 2015 - April 12, 2015: Chicanas, Cholas y Chisme Progressive Cultures UCLA Institute of American Cultures: 45 Years of Ethnic Studies Research El Clamor Publico by Shefrah Ann Rozenstain, April 1995 Edward R. Roybal, Papers archived at the UCLA Chicano Ethnic Studies Center
Play: Chavez Ravine
LatinoLA invites submissions of articles and events pertaining to Los Angeles

CALIFORNIA
Los Californianos support the upcoming canonization of Fray Junipero Serra From Spanish Soldier to California Ranchero, A Migration of People and Culture by Mimi Lozano 1996 The Rancho Camulos by Josefa (Lopez) Romero LeRoy Lucretia del Valle, "Typical California Girl." Sunset magazine, July 1914.
Lucretia del Valle Grady Obituary & Death Certificate. 1972.
Logan Heights: Progressive Era Spirit of Reform in Activism, Culture, Education by Maria E. Garcia Eddie Grijalva contacted His Holiness, Pope Francis Hart of the West Powwow in Newhall. September 28th, 2014

NORTHWESTERN, US
Family Search Discovery Center Opens in Salt Lake, Utah

SOUTHWESTERN, US
Silver City, New Mexico proclaims February 19, "Iwo Jima Day"
National Hispanic Cultural Center: exhibit on the Penitente heritage of New Mexico New Mexicans Treasure the Palace of the Governors New Mexico Acequia Association Ringside at the Revolution: Underground Cultural History of El Paso and Juarez, David Dorado Romo Blowout at UT, El Paso, forty years in the vineyards of the muses by Felipe de Ortego y Gasca El Paso Hispanic Leaders Press City Council on Cultural Center

TEXAS
Childhood Memories: Train Robbery by Samuel Saenz Jr.
March 21, 2015: The Lady in Blue and the Founding of the First Texas Missions October 8-10, 2015, Annual Texas State Hispanic Genealogical Conference, Laredo Southern Jewish Communities - Laredo, Texas

MIDDLE AMERICA
An Afterward to the Michicano by Margarito J. Garcia III, Ph.D.
Ethnolinguistic connection - Nahuatle language in Mexico with the indigenous peoples of Michigan French castaway in Natchitoches Atakapa Indian slave

EAST COAST
Earliest colonization of the Americas were by Spain and Portugal.
Florida Living History

AFRICAN-AMERICAN
Having Our Say, Sarah and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth Finding the Way to Freedom Principles of Kwanzaa

INDIGENOUS
Fr. Antonio Margil's Contribution to the Birth of European Texas A ‘Lady in Blue’ Instructs Indians in the Southwest by Margaret C.
Galitzin

SEPHARDIC
Portugal Approves Citizenship Plan for Sephardic Jews Sephardic Jews founded key cities in Mexico Reclaiming Sephardic music, culture on road to Spanish citizenship

ARCHAEOLOGY
A 13,000-Year-Old Skeleton Confirms The Origin Of Native Americans An Immaculate Tomb Shines A Light On The Mysterious Wari People of Peru Our lost cousins, the Neanderthals

MEXICO
Genealogía y Antropología del Parentesco por Carlos Martín Herrera de la Garza Zacatecas, Colonial Jewel in the Desert Tenochtitlán Catálogo de bautismos en el estado de Nuevo León

Investigó y paleografió.Tte. Corl. Intdte. Ret. Ricardo R. Palmerín Cordero.
Bautismo de José Primitivo Salinas de la Garza Matrimonio de mi tatarabuelo materno Don José Ramón Salinas Fernández Matrimonio de Don Francisco Grande y de Doña Angela Ampudia Cortés Descendientes de la familia Garza Herrera-Genealogistas e Historiadores.
Matrimonio del Coronel Don Antonio Ma. Jauregui y de Doña Victoria Facha.
Registro del bautismo de José de Jesús Guadalupe Romo Espinosa

CARIBBEAN REGION
Working To Preserve The Legacy Of A Puerto Rican Leader Lisa S.
Lenkiewicz
War Against All Puerto Ricans by Nelson A. Denis Agramonte/Agramont Surname in Cuba by Peter Carr

CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA
A Hemispheric SOMOS PRIMOS by Galal Kernahan Boletín de Genealogías Colombianas Guatemala Civil Registration

PHILIPPINES
The Miss Universe of 2015 and My Memories of Days with My Hispanic Friends

SPAIN
Synopsis: The De Riberas, Chapter Four: The Old World - Iberia, Pre-Spain by Michael S. Perez Las Canarias Joâo Gonçalves Zarco y Tristâo Vaz Teixeira

INTERNATIONAL
Lady Plumber Remember this lady? Irena Sendler La batalla de Kinsale: españoles en la defensa de Irlanda por José Antonio Crespo-Francés High Horses and Low Blows by J.L. Robb