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Subject: Somos Primos August 2013 155th online issue
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Dear Friends and Family:
I have exciting news to share about the National Museum of the Latino Community. A featured session which I attended at the 2013 NCLR conference in New Orleans was entitled: The Making of America: Untold Stores from American Latino History. The panel was assembled under the auspices of the PBS Project, Latino Americans, a three-part, six-hour documentary series set to air nationally in the fall.
Description of the panel:
Despite a 500-year presence in North America, Latino culture, heritage, and history are severely underrepresented in educational curriculum, historic landmarks, and cultural institutions. National groups are working intently to uncover, document, and bring forward the many contributions that Hispanic Americans have made to this country since its formation.
Since most Latino activism has focused on issues of education, employment, medical needs, immigration, etc.it was of particular interest to note attention being paid to our history. The main topic which kept repeating itself throughout the panel discussion was the need for public family stories written from the Latino perspective.
Estuardo Rodriguez and Maria Cardona, both members of the Friends of the American Latino Museum, and Eduardo Diaz, Executive Director of the Smithsonian Latino Center pleaded for personal family stories to be written and shared.
Since I had already decided that in 2014, Somos Primos was going to move towards an even more heavy emphasis on personal and family histories, I was delighted.
I hope all of us can support the National Museum of the Latino Community by starting now to collect, compile, write or record our memories The Smithsonian wants YOUR memories in preparation for the Museum's projected archives.
Let me recommend a system which got me started writing my personal stories, First Writes, based on slotting sentences. Go to the Somos Primos website and scroll down to Write Your Own Personal History with First Writes.
Naturally Somos Primos wants your cuentos too.
Your experiences matter . .
Your perspective matters . .
Your stories matter . .
You matter . .
Sincerely, Mimi
www.SomosPrimos.com
714-894-8161
Table of Contents, August 2013
UNITED STATES
The Making of America: Untold Stories from American Latino History, NCLR panel Share a Family Memory, online session of the Making of America Spanish Immigrants in the United States The Early Spanish Presence in Hawaii The Early Spanish Presence in Guam The Early Spanish Presence in Nebraska Editor Mimi shares briefly, her heritage lineage in/to the United States Wives' Names Stake Out Middle Ground
WITNESS TO HERITAGE
Lessons that Papa Taught Me by Wanda Garcia A photographer should peer through a partisan lens by David Bacon Names Emerge from the Shadows of 1948 Crash
CELEBRATING HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
Link to full report to the White House on the proposed National Latino Musuem Somos Primos Resource for the Classroom Diverse Origins: The Nation’s 14 Largest Hispanic-Origin Groups Hispanics Breaking Barriers, Index to both, 1st and 2nd Series
ERASING HISTORIC REALITY
Count José de Escandón versus Monsieur René de La Salle By José Antonio López
HISPANIC LEADERS
Raymond Rodriguez Dies at 87, March 26, 1926 ~ June 24, 2013 Dr. Marta Sotomayor ~ June 24, 2013 John J. Lopez, dies at November 11, 1951 ~ July 2, 2013
NATIONAL ISSUES
Limericks by F.R. Duplantier
Tragic statistics of African Americans murdered in the US.
Voice of the Mainland, LULAC Bog
HEALTH ISSUES
Suicides Soaring Among Boomers
Diabetes and Latinos
Los Alamitos Students Tackle Life Before Death Reading can help preserve memory skills as we grow older.
EDUCATION
Bilingual Children Have a Two-Tracked Mind Are bilingual Brains better? Ask your neighborhood neuroscientist By David Rogers OjoOido-Academics Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools by David L. Kirp
CULTURE
The Traditions of Writing Calaveras
The Music of Crimson Rose
BOOKS
Chicana/o Struggles for Education Activism in the Community By Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr.
A Clamor for Equality: Emergence and Exile of Californio Activist Francisco P.
Ramirez (American Liberty and Justice) by Paul Bryan Gray
Bilingual: Noldo and his Magical Scooter at the Battle of the Alamo New Adventure Novel for Chicano and Latino Youth by Armando Rendon
Emergencias: Las Artes en Tijana, Los Contextos Urbanos y la Creatividad by Norma Iglesia Prieto America's Charters of Freedom in English/Spanish: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Gettysburg Address. by Carlos B. Vega Our Hispanic Roots, What History Failed to Tell Us by Carlos B. Vega LATINO PATRIOTS Oak Ridge Boys at Arlington National Cemetery Hispanic Medal of Honor, San Diego, featuring New York Fireman Lt. Joe Torillo Century of Valor: Hispanic Americans in the United States Armed Forces, World War I by Rogelio C. Rodriguez General Cavazos, First United States, Army 4 Star General United States Naval Academy, Hispanic Admirals in our U.S. Navy
EARLY LATINO PATRIOTS
