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TABLE OF CONTENTS

United States
The Voice of “El Pueblo”: Reies López Tijerina by Jose Antonio Lopez The Voces Oral History Project: Defend the Honor: ten years later Sept 9th: 19th International Latino Book Awards KCAL to kick-off Hispanic Heritage Month with the Random Act of Mendez Project Celebrating Hispanic Heritage: A Resource for Community and Classroom Use by Mimi Lozano Fact Tank: Our Lives in Numbers, How the US. Hispanic Population is Changing by Antonio Flores Dr. Hector P. Garcia Day in Texas by Wanda Garcia National Hispanic Heritage Month 2017 Theme: "Shaping the Bright Future of America" by Juana Bordas Looking to 2018: An idea to celebrate National Hispanic Heritage Month by Margarito J. Garcia, Ph.D.
Really American: Keith Nguyen
Memories of the 1954 Laredo, Texas Flood by Gilberto Quezada
Report: Army ends enlistment contracts for foreign-born recruits by Kyle Rempfer In attacking Columbus, Antifa tries to finish what the Klan started Jefferson y Fray Junipero Serra por Francisco Javier Vallaure de Acha Protestors for Hire Never Forget: The 5 Lessons We Should Have Learned From 911 Afraid of the "Islamophobia" Label, Teachers Avoid 9/11 Lessons United Nations Relief & Work Agency textbooks for Palestinians demonize Israel and Jews by Danielle Ziri Mexican diplomat Gilberto Bosques: The diplomat who saved 40,000 lives The End of Prayer Shaming video by High School So you want to take a knee by Oscar Ramirez
Photo: Real Men Taking a Knee

Spanish Presence in the Americas' Roots
Future of the Wilbur-Cruce Colonial Spanish horse in the Americas by Ann Troutner (Ana Trucha) El que tenga valor que me siga: En vida de Bernardo de Galvez by Eduardo Garriguesr

Historic Tidbits
Republic of Texas colony holds election, September 12, 1844 April 2017 marked the 100th anniversary of the U.S.’s entry into World War I.

Hispanic Leaders
CAPT. Richard L. Whynot, USCG (RET.)
Jose Ramos, a Purple Heart recipient and longtime Vietnam veterans advocate, dead at 68

American Patriots
USNS: Cesar Chavez (T-AKE-14)
These soldiers can no longer stand up for our National Anthem In honor of America's military heroes, resources compiled in support by Amanda Bartow

Early American Patriots
The de Riberas, Chapter Nineteen-The War of 1812 by Michael S. Perez Civil War Reenactment Cancelled for Safety Reasons by Paul Bois

Education
Latino Studies at Austin Embraces the Americas UCI sanctions student Palestinian group for disrupting Israeli event on campus Hillsdale College and Free Online Courses Teach Americanisms Countdown to College

Religion
A Catholic School in California Removes statues of the Virgin Mary and Jesus Western Heritage and The Hebrew legacy and emergence of Christianity

Culture
E​l​ verdadero origen de los tacos de carnitas mexicanos !
How Much Spanish Can An Italian Understand?
Today, Google September 7th launched, Google Arts & Culture: Latino Cultures in the US

Books
Not Getting Stuck: Success Stories Being Latina & Transferring from a CCC by Lily E. Espinoza Interview of author Isabel Delia Gonzalez, Breaking and Bleeding of a Macho Man by Mimi Lozano Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements, edited by:
Devon G. Pena, Luz Calvo, Pancho McFarland, and Gabriel R. Valle Feathered Serpent Dark Heart of Sky: Myths of Mexico by David Bowles Latina Style Digital Magazine NALIP is thrilled to announce the We Are Inclusion Campaign

Surname: Corona Páez

DNA: New Native American Mitochondrial DNA Haplogroups by Roberta Estes

Family History
“d” by Pat Sajak
How to request copies of naturalization records FamilySearch Digital Records Access Replacing Microfilm Free Family History Library Classes and Webinars for October 2017 New Historic Records on FamilySearch

Orange County, CA
October 14: SHHAR: John Schmal, "Los Fundadores de Mexico"
October 14: Mendez Museum Without Walls Presents: Fiesta Mendez In Costa Mesa, California, 'Real Women' have grueling, yet gratifying lives by Eric Marchese Artifacts preserve memories of Orange’s history as a rancho Anaheim Schools to study historical novel: "Into the Beautiful North" by Luis Alberto Urrea Oct 20th deadline to apply: Wallace (Wally) R. Davis Memorial Scholarship Fund November 18: Letty Rodella, Researching Your Hispanic Ancestors

Los Angeles County, CA
Sept 10th: The Latino Book and Family Festival September 29- October 22: The Uncensoring of L.A. History: A Mexican Perspective L.A. Celebrated the 236th Anniversary of Its Founding With a Festival Downtown For the First Time Ever, the Vincent Price Art Museum Has a Latinx Director What were the Zoot Suit Riots? by Evan Andrews The Los Angeles City Council bans Columbus Day, echoing the Ku Klux Klan

California
Rafael Jesús González: 1st Poet Laureate of Berkeley October 7th: Watershed Environmental Poetry Festival Oct 7-8th: Battle of Dominguez Hill
1769 "Soldados de Cuera" Commemorative Plaque Talking sense into the California Board of Education: Mission Impossible Wages rise on California farms. Americans still don’t want the job Gaspar de Portola

Pan-Pacific Rim
National Pacific Islander Education Network, NPIEN U.S. allowed limited numbers of Spanish and Portuguese immigrants into Hawaii, 1907-1920

Northwestern US
Student finds ancient Canadian village that’s 10,000 years older than the Pyramids, by Leanna Garfield

Southwestern US
Welcome to the Presidio San Agustin del Tucson Museum AARP AZ Radio: Climate, Copper, Cattle, Citrus, and Cotton: Early Arizona’s economy

Texas
October 28, 2017: 29th Annual Seguin Celebration, speaker, Dr. Caroline Castillo Crimm Mission San José y San Miguel de Aguayo Battle of Medina History Symposium September 1, 1863 - Benavides crosses Rio Grande in pursuit of Mexican "Unionists"
The Texas Almanac 2018-2019 is now available Three Books on Texas Shipbuilding during WWI Tejanos Through Time

Middle America
1817-2017 Baton Rouge Louisiana 200 Year Celebration Marche de Galvez! Festive re-enactment October in the City – The Learning Years (1952) Rudy Padilla Contrasts in Education - from the Past by Rudy Padilla Cislanderus Project: Canary Islander descendants in the United States

East Coast
The Founding of the Castillo de San Marcos, October 2, 1672 Estados Unidos borra a Cristóbal Colón

Caribbean Region
Puerto Rico's Agriculture and Farmers Decimated
by Maria by Frances Robles and Luis Ferre-Sadrni

African-American
August 30th, 1956 -- Mob masses at Mansfield Black in Latin America: PBS Documentary It’s Hard to Look Back: America’s First Slavery Museum by Brian Boucher

Indigenous
Indigenous Jalisco: From the Spanish Contact to 2010 by John P. Schmal

Sephardic
Three articles from The Sephardi World Weekly of the American Sephardi
Federation:
Nosotros: Strengthening Bonds Between Jewish and Latino Communities Take a walk through Sephardic Montreal's illustrious history on a new urban tour by Julie Masis How I Bore You On Eagles Wings - A Reminder of Our Humanity by Shahar Azani

Archaeology
Lakes of mercury and human sacrifices – after 1,800 years, Teotihuacan reveals its treasures Viking skeleton's DNA test proves historians wrong by Natalie O'Neill

Mexico
One of the most powerful earthquakes ever to strike Mexico Struck at
11:49 p.m. Thursday, September 7th
On this day in September 19, 1985, a powerful earthquake struck Mexico City When the Mind of the Crowd Takes Over the Mind of the Individual, the Human Spirit Shines
By Sonny Boy Arias +Armando Rendon
The African Connection to Mexico’s War of Independence by Dan Arellano Doug Perkins, grandson of photographer Robert Runyon, clarifies Mexican battle dates, not 1846, but 1912.
De Zacatecas o de Ohio: Tomás Alva Edison por Leticia Frias Arts of Colonial Mexico, Richard Perry Defunciones de los Capitanes don Josè Ma. Flon y don Miguel Ma. Blanco
Investigò:
Tte. Corl. Intdte. Ret. Ricardo R. Palmerìn Cordero.

Central & South America
Mayan Culture Meets Haute Couture
Voices and colors of Latin America, Concert for Ayotzinapa

Philippines
Thanks for sharing you memorable experience of the past.
La época de Isabel II (1833-1868) y el final del siglo XIX

Spain
The Quiet Islamic Conquest of Spain by Giulio Meotti ¿Sabes cual es el pais que más veces ha sido invadido en la historia?
La Otra Globalización: La Expansión Universal de la Civilización Hispáanica
por Antonio de Mendoza Casas

International
The Forgotten History of the Neapolitan ‘Kindergarten Ship’ by Anika Burgess 6,000-year-old wine storage jars found in a Sicilian cave by Jason Daley La increíble historia de Pedro Páez, el primer europeo en ver el nacimiento del Nilo azul.
Who Really died at Auschwitz? by Sebastian Vilar Rodriguez