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Dear Friends and Primos:

Another busy month with election concerns and many Hispanic Heritage Month
activities running into Dia de los Muertos exhibits, lectures, and
festivities.

As you'll note on the opening page, Somos Primos is featuring an event to
be held at The Heritage Museum of Orange County, in Santa Ana, California.
The goal to promote public awareness that the 1849 California
Constitution,
was a Spanish/English bilingual document. California's population during
its growth into statehood was very diverse. Hopefully understanding
California's history will help to understand it's present status.

Closing with the words of Cyril James:
"A free man is as jealous of his responsibilities as he is of his
liberties."

Mimi

Content Areas
United States
US Census Bureau Latinos only represent 6 percent of permanent work force
Cynthia Swann, 2010 receives MANA Award
URL Dr. Alfredo Quinones from migrant farm worker to neurosurgeon
More Than One in Five People in the U.S. are First or Second Generation
Hispanic Paradox- Longevity
Your employers contributions for health benefits to be considered income
for you
George Washington's Thanksgiving Proclamation
Did you know . . .
Saluting AMERICAN ingenuity and American Private Enterprise for the
miracle rescue of the Chilean Miners.
Facts Abstracted from Census
Documentary . . .When Worlds Collide: The Untold Story of the Americas
After Columbus
Nina Perales, a Wise Latina by Mercy Bautista-Olvera
Hispanics Breaking Barriers, Part XXII by Mercy Bautista-Olvera
Medicinal Biochemist Rodriguez Underscores Latino Contributions to Health,

Medicine By Valerie Lambros
The Benefit of Learning to Serve
On the Subject of Religious Freedom
Smithsonian honors Hispanic Heritage Month with special exhibits
Women's Right to Vote

[[ California's Bilingual 1849 Constitution ]]
California's Real Birthday, November 13, 1849 by Galal Kernahan
A listing of the persons who actually took part in the 1849 convention
Promote our Heritage: Heritage Museum of Orange County by James P. Gray
Californians Seeking to Preserve Hispanic Cultural Heritage, Los
Californianos

Witness to Heritage
"Bloody Shirt"
The Longoria Affair Documentary by Daisy Wanda Garcia
Library Service Division& Mexican American Studies Program

Honoring Leaders
George Ballis: Photographer 1925 to September 24th at the age of 85
Edmundo "Eddie" Escobedo Community activist 1932 to 2010 at age 77
Arturo R. Garza: Engineer, July 20, 1944 to October 4, 2010 at the age of
66
Don Garate: Historian, author, reenactor Nov 6 1950 to Sept 21, 2010 at
the age 60

National Issues
Walmart's Medical Clinics
SafeLink Wireless
Buy American, How to read Bar Codes
Immigration Policy Center Immigration Reform Act of 2010
Migration Information SourceFinally Justice: Hate Crimes and Luis Ramirez
"I am proud to be a traitor to the United States," Faisal Shahzad
Your Taxes: People have the right to know the truth
One light bulb at a time

Action Item
Efforts underway to get greater recognition for American GI Forum founder
Ethnic midlife women's attitudes toward physical activity study seek
participants

Education
URL Khana Academy, free education
Hispanics now comprise more than 25 percent of Texas State student body
Latina Women of NASA of the Month: Rosa Obregon
Webcast: State of Hispanic community and access to higher education
URL Education Trust study
Jose Limon, retires as Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies
EducAide Software reading module to include Ben Romero's stories
Hispanic Scholarship Fund aims to put a degree in every Latino household
by 2025
Anaheim Welcomes 4,000 Third Grade Students to the Gift of History Event
A Huge Success: La Elliott School Historical Marker and Alumni Reunion
White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics.

Bilingual/Bicultural
Speaking in Tongues: Bilingual Edu& Immigrant Communities by Yana
Kunichoff
"Immigrant Paradox" in Education?

Dia de los Muertos
Observing the Dia de los Muertos is increasing in popularity.
"Viva Los Muertos" Exhibit mounted by Peter Perez
Noche De Altares, a Día de los Muertos Celebration!
NHPO Día de los Muertos Cemetery Clean-up

Culture
State of L.A. Murals Today Panel
The World's Greatest Virtual Museum
La Peña Cultural Center
Historian, author, artist Louis F. Serna
The Salsa Revolution
Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mother of the Americas
Revealing Siqueiros, the landscape painter
After college, finding an identity all over again
Bobby Gonzalez reflects on 'Why we are not 'Spanish''

Literature
Jose Leon Robles de la Torre: Writer, Journalist, Historian, Poet
by Mercy Bautista-Olvera
October-September Update for Somos en escrito
Mario Vargas Llosa, a Peruvian wins the Nobel Prize in Literature!!!

Books
Smeltertown: Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community
by Monica Perales2010 Texas Book Festival, 15th Year
The First Latino Books into Movies Awards
"Bless Me, Ultima" New Mexico novel headed to big screen
Clotilde P. Garcia 2010 Annual Book Prize for Texas history goes to:
Dr Emilio Zamora, “Claiming Rights and Righting Wrongs.”
Saltypie, A Choctaw Journey from Darkness into Light by Tim Tingle
Seven Sins, Seven Stories, Fiction from Puerto Rico by Ronald C. Flores
The Latino Migration Experience in North Carolina by Hannah Gill

Military Enforcement
Photo: Freedom is not Free
Requirement to register with the Selective Service
HR 3219, The Veterans’ Benefits Act of 2010
We Remember
Four Hispanic Heroes received the Silver Star
Mexican American Patriots- World War I to Iraq War& Afghanistan War CD
U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Salvatore Giunta to receive the Medal of Honor.
Hector M. Lopez, Newport Engineer Earns National Hispanic Achievement
Award Graduates, ex-students returned to Martin High School in 1945 by
Odie
ArambulaLiving ghost classes, Service and school by Odie Arambula

American Patriots
Introducing Thomas Ellingwood Fortin
Galvez Documentary
Select websites on Galvez gathered by Rafael Ojeda

Surnames: Tapia

Cuentos
Tio Reynaldo Vera Saenz by daughter Lydia S. Saenz
Crossing the Snake by David Montejano
Grandma Lola by Ben Romero
Kingsville, Texas: My Hometown, 1943-1961 By Omar Álvarez

Family History
Roots Magic
Free Software, printable blank family tree charts
About San Jacinto Texas Historic District
URL Newspapers Archive
URL Western States Marriages Search Form
URL Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana
New Family Search resources

Orange County, CA
Nov 6: Society of Hispanic Historical and Ancestral Research Quarterly
Nov 6: 14th Annual Veterans Day Celebration, Special Tribute to Gold Star
Families
Nov 6-7: UCI's Pipeline Ensemble present "Romeo and Juliet"
Guide to Orange County Digital Stories
Anaheim breaks ground on Founders’ Park

Los Angeles, CA
Starting Nov 3- Week of activities at Natural Museum, Mexican Revolution,
1810-1910
Nov 6-7 Open House: Grand Reopening of the Los Angeles Family History
Library
Nov 13: 2G/4B Two Generations/Four Brothers, Reception 7-10 pm
Piedad Yorba by Charles Perry, in Caliber- Gastronomica
Charles Prudhomme Collection of Photographs - Huntington Library

California
California Mexican American Veteran's Memorial
A New Chicana/o Archive at SDSU: Unidos Por La Causa
Click to California's Real Birthday

Northwestern US
Native American Sharpshooters Honored at Andersonville

Southwestern US
Latino Stories of WWII, National Hispanic Cultural Center

Indigenous
Bronx American Indian Festival
Quilticoyotl Raises Flower& Song
Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation Museum
Government to Settle with American Indian Farmers

Archaeology
Undersea Cave Yields One of Oldest Skeletons in the Americas
Royal Maya Tomb Found

Sephardic
Celebrating the life and Deeds of Dona Gracia Nasi
Conference on Merchant Jews in the New World 1800-1900
General Eisenhower Warned Us

African-American
The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum
Houston Attraction Memorializes American Military History by Marilyn Jones

East Coast
> From Democracy Now: The History of Latinos in New York
Click to Nov 2: Celebrating the life and Deeds of Dona Gracia Nasi
Click to Conference on Merchant Jews in the New World 1800-1900

East of Mississippi
Author of Ask a Mexican speaks in Tulsa
Republic of West Florida by Mary Foster
Topeda hosts Latino soccer finals

Texas
Nov. 6: Discovering Spanish and Mexican Texas
Amiss Myth by Corinne Staacke& Sylvia Carvajal Sutton
Nov. 11: Granaderos Y Damas de Galvez
Nov. 12: Unveiling, Bust of Former U.S. District Chief Judge DeAnda
completed
Nov. 16: Book signing, “Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary
Texas.”
Dr. Aureliano Urrutia by Margaret Garza
Tejano Genealogy Society November Newsletter
About San Jacinto Texas Historic District
Lone Star State History Didn't Begin in 1836 by Lino Garcia Jr.

Mexico
The Other Side of the Mexican Revolution El Paso Exhibit
Mexico's Bicentennial, The Big Picture: News Stories in photographs
“Celebrating Mexico” at Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
Families of General Teran, Nuevo Leon, Mexico Vol 1 (1809-1814) by Crispin
Rendon
A Century of Turmoil: Mexico's Social and Political Evolution by John P.
Schmal
Native Mexico by John P. Schmal
El Comandante de Escuadron del Regimiento de Husares Don Juan Luyando
Por el Teniente Coronel Intendente Ret. Ricardo Raúl Palmerín
Cordero
Personajes en la Historia de México: Juan Nepomuceno Álvarez Hurtado
por: José León Robles de la Torre
Personajes en la Historia de México: Gral. de División don Ignacio
Comonfort de los
Ríos por: José León Robles de la Torre
Archivo General de Indias, sent by Leticia de los Santos

Central/South America
Fundación Archivo Gráfico y Museo Histórico, Argentina
Rescued miners OK in hospital, preparing for onslaught of attention
Rescued miners preparing for onslaught of attention as Chile impresses
world
U.S. Senate confirms Raul H. Yzaguirre Ambassador in Dominican Republic
Bringing Hope from Oakland to El Salvador
La genealogía en Nicaragua y su enfoque internacional
Dia de la Raza

Spain
Portada de PARES
Piratas Por Venganza
Asociacion Cantabra de Genelogia

Caribbean/Cuba
The Puerto Rican Northern Migration, Part 2 by Ariel Blondet
Seeds of Change in Little Havana: Havana, Miami, Washington: A Love/Hate
Triangle

Philippine Islands
La Leyenda Negra' revisited by Bambi Harper
Filipino film wins Best Picture winners at 27th Bogota Film Festival
Patriots of the Philippines in Spain's 1779-1783 War with England
by Granville Hough, Ph.D.

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