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Washington Vacations

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Muratist Art In Washington s Latino Communities The Muralist Art Movement that began in the 1960s in the United States as a result of the Chicano civil rights movement had a strong influence on Latin American art and culture in the Pacific Northwest. Communities in Eastern Washington, such as Wapato and Walla Walla, saw an awakening of the arts and cultural activity inspired by the national Muralist Art Movement. Seattle also became a hub for murals depicting the educational, economic, and social strug- gles of Latin American people in the state, often displayed at cultural centers and the University of

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Holiday in Wisconsin

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Wisconsin Advocacy and Activism A recognition of the injustices and lack of available programs for Wisconsin’s Latino population led to the turbulent 1960s and 1970s decades of protest, activism, and change. During the 1960s, advocacy organizations emerged, workers protested, and Latinos demanded rights and recognition. Much of the activity in Wisconsin mirrored other Latino movements occurring in the United States at this time, such as the grape boycott spearheaded by the United Farm Workers in California. In 1962 the Governor’s Commission on Human Rights released The Migrant Labor Problem in Wisconsin. The report referred to the migrant worker as the

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Travel to Wisconsin

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Wisconsin’s Migrant Workers As the use of foreign workers diminished in the early 1950s, the population of the domestic migrant increased. These nomadic people generally hailed from Texas and traveled collectively as a family, though sometimes just single men arrived.5 The 1950s represented Wisconsin’s peak era for migrant workers, with about 11,000 in any given year until the middle of that decade.6 Job availability in the canning, processing, and agricultural industries attracted domestic migrants. Labor recruiters traveled to south Texas during the off-season to find workers. In 1950 the Governor’s Commission on Human Rights issued Migratory Agricultural Workers in Wisconsin:

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Holiday in Utah

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Latinos in Utah Today (1991-2007) The economic and social differences (and other demographic trends) that were apparent by the end of the 1980s have become more pronounced in recent years. The Latino community of Utah has continued to grow and become even more diverse, with new migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala, and elsewhere moving into the state. In addition, the growing economic divergence noted in the 1980s had become even more pronounced by the end of the next decade. In regard to education, the percentage of Latinos in Utah with high-school diplomas actually declined by the middle of the 1990s.

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Utah

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Jorge Iber Utah chronology 1776 A ten-man expedition from Santa Fe, led by Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Fray Silvestre Velez de Escalante, visits Utah. 1847 Mormon pioneers arrive in Utah. 1880s-1900s An influx of manitos (self-reference for Spanish-surnamed people from northern New Mexico and southern Colorado) arrive to work for church-owned sheep-herding operations in southern Utah. Their primary area of settlement in Utah is in the town of Monticello (in San Juan County), in the southeastern corner of the territory. Mexican and Mexican American laborers arrive to work in beet fields of Utah. A strike in Bingham Canyon leads

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Washington Travel Destinations

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Washington’s Latinos in the Twenty-First Century Despite the growing Latin American influence in Washington, the dynamic growth in the state’s Latino population over time has lead to several social and political issues in the twenty-first century. Some of the state’s Latinos’ most urgent social and political concerns include the K-12 education of the young Latin American population; the overall health of the population; access to affordable and environmentally healthy housing; and voter registration and participation of Latin American voters in state and local elections. In the area of early childhood education, Washington appears to be addressing the needs of the

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Virginia

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Maria Eugenia Verdaguer Virginia chronology In 1524 Spanish explorer Lucas Vasquez de Ayllon sails up the James River and the Chesapeake Bay from Hispaniola. In 1526 he founds the ill-fated settlement of San Miguel de Guandape, located in the Tidewater area. Spanish missionary Father Juan Bautista Segura sails the Chesapeake Bay and establishes the settlement of Axacan near the Rappahannock River. Killed by the Native Americans shortly after, Father Segura and the other missionaries become the first martyrs of Virginia. Thomas Jefferson and Venezuelan patriot Simon Bolivar establish a lifelong friendship that, in 1827, brings Bolivar’s nephew, Fernando, to study

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Travel to Utah

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Latinos in Utah: The Chicano Movement and Reagan Era (1968-1990) With the genesis of SOCIO, Utah Latinos established a nondenominational association with the goal of improving their social and economic circumstances. SOCIO’s charter noted that it would act consistently and lawfully to establish and maintain justice in all areas affecting the well being of the Spanish-speaking person and community. The hope was to overcome the religious and ethnic divisions that had split the group in previous decades and work to open up educational and occupational possibilities for all members of the comunidad.15 To accomplish this task, SOCIO’s leadership decided early

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Washington Guide for Tourist

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Washington notable latinos Villanueva, Tomas (1937-). Tomas Villanueva is the founder and past president of the United Farm Workers of Washington State. Tomas Villanueva came to Washington with his family at the age of 14 to work as a farmworker in eastern Washington. In 1967 he founded the United Farm Worker Cooperative; from 1967 to 1974, Villanueva also was instrumental in starting the Yakima Valley Farmworkers Clinic; the United Farm Workers Service Center; a wave of hop harvest strikes in 1969, 1970, and 1971; and an increasingly successful grape boycott. Currently he lives in Toppenish and remains active in state

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Travel to West Virginia

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West Virginia cultural contributions Spaniards living in West Virginia mining communities in the twentieth century contributed to the cultural richness of the state. Their importance to the booming zinc economy at the time, for example, is memorialized in a historical highway marker for the town of Spelter. It reads, Spelter community. Company town built for immigrant, primarily Spanish, zinc plant workers, 1910-1911.11 In copper-and zinc-mining communities throughout the state, Spanish migrants integrated themselves into the larger fabric of West Virginia culture and thrived as businessmen and laborers. Many of these migrants came from the regions of Asturias, in northern Spain,

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Wisconsin

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Wisconsin chronology Spanish fur trappers, sailors, traders, and soldiers arrive in Wisconsin. The Spanish government has a frontier outpost in St. Louis and supports the U.S. cause during the American Revolution by invading British supplies at Prairie du Chien. Latino migrants from Mexico and domestic migrants from south Texas travel to Wisconsin for jobs in Milwaukee’s tanneries, railroads, and factories. The Mexican Revolution of 1910 probably provides the catalyst for this migration. During the 1930s, an estimated 3,000 Mexicans from Texas arrive in Wisconsin. Between 1943 and 1947, the Federal Emergency Farm Labor Program brings about 17,000 foreign workers to

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Wyoming Travel Destinations

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Wyoming Contemporary Era, 1970-2007 Though the 1960s nationalist movements’ demands for self-identity and selfdetermination were successful in slowing down the acculturation process within specific Latino populations, they did little to push mainstream public officials toward a system that accurately enumerates Latinos with respect to preferred national-origin ethnic labels. Since the 1970 census experiments, the umbrella terms Hispanic (and now Latino) have become the preferred labels with which to enumerate persons of Mexican and other Latin American descent. With respect to Wyoming Latinos in 1970s census data, they comprised 5.6 percent (an estimated 18,551 people) of the total state population (est.

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Utah Travel Destinations

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Utah cultural contributions Latinos have made many important contributions to Utah through a variety of community and Christian Church-related organizations. For example, the presence of a Latino LDS population has made it possible for the Church to recruit other Spanish-speaking people to their fold (both in the United States and elsewhere in the world). Starting in 1923 with the Rama Mexicana renamed the Lucero Ward and now, many other such entities the dramatic growth in the number of Latino Mormons in Utah is a testament to the Church’s success in recruiting Spanish speakers to their fold. This is in part

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Wyoming NOTABLE LATINOS

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Ontiveros, Inez (1934-). Inez Ontiveroz, resident of Lovell, Wyoming, since the early 1940s, was the recipient of the 2005 National Head Start Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award. In previous years, she was also recognized as the Wyoming and Region VIII Head Start Teacher of the Year. Esquibel, Floyd A. (1938-). Floyd Esquibel, a Cheyenne attorney, has been the Wyoming House District 44 Representative since 1997. He is a committee member for several important committees dealing with transportation, economic development, and the environment. Mercado, Oralia (1941-). Oralia Mercado, while raising her family as a single mother in Casper, became a mainstay in

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South Dakota Guide for Tourist

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South Dakota cultural contributions As testimony to the Latino history of the state, many places in South Dakota have names of Spanish origin, including Fort Manuel, named after Latino explorer Manuel Lisa; Hermosa, which means gorgeous; and Boneita Springs, a corruption of bonita; and Bonilla, believed to have been named by William Kelley, division superintendent of the Milwaukee railroad, in honor of General Manuel Bonilla, who was the president of Honduras at the time. According to one version, the town of Delmont was derived from Delmonte (from the hillside), which was a popular chain of cafes in the country at

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Travel to Vermont

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Vermont notable latinos Alvarez, Julia (1950-). Julia Alvarez, a noted novelist, is a writer in residence at Middlebury College. Alvarez was born in New York City but raised in the Dominican Republic. She is a writer of essays, fiction, and poetry. She graduated summa cum laude from Middlebury College and later earned a master’s in creative writing from Syracuse University. She taught writing at several colleges and universities before coming to Middlebury College. She resigned her tenured faculty professorship in 1998 to write full time but remains a writer in residence at the college. Her most notable works are How

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Holiday in Wyoming

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Wyoming Twentieth-Century Industrialization Migrant labor increasingly became a mainstay of U.S. economic development at the turn of the twentieth century; the domestic labor supply could not keep up with rapid industrialization and increasing commercial agriculture across the country. Increased urbanization, labor competition, and labor organizing hardened U.S. xenophobia, allowing nativist forces to influence restrictive immigration policies that first disqualified Asians, then curtailed central, southern, and eastern European population flows. With these migrant labor flows cut off, the Mexican American migrant came to the forefront. The economic profits reaped through Mexican American and Mexican migrant labor instantaneously flowed to regions outside

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Utah Guide for Tourist

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Utah bibliography Adams, Eleanor B. Fray Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Fray Silvestre Velez de Escalante. Utah Historical Quarterly, 44 (Winter 1976): 40-58. Arrington, Leonard J. The Commercialization of Utah’s Economy: Trends and Development from Statehood to 1910. In A Dependent Commonwealth: Utah’s Economy from Statehood to the Great Depression. Ed. Dean L. May. Provo, UT: Brigham Young University, 1974, 3-34. Benavides, E. Ferol, The Saints Among the Saints: A Study of Curanderismo in Utah. Utah Historical Quarterly 41 (Autumn 1973): 373-392. Gonzalez, William H. and Genaro M. Padilla. Monticello, The Hispanic Cultural Gateway to Utah. Utah Historical Quarterly 52 (Winter

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Wyoming Vacations

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Wyoming Community Building, 1900-1960 Wyoming’s territorial and early statehood eras were generally welcoming to migrants due to these workers’ critical role in the region’s economic development. This view changed in 1914, when it became increasingly apparent that the United States would become involved in the First World War. Following the national trend, local Wyomingites began to fear all migrants because of their potential for developing a fifth column within U.S. borders. Equally responsible for fueling nativist attitudes was the perception that migrants were to blame for pre- and postwar economic downturns and accompanying labor-organizing efforts. Whereas second- and third-generation Europeans

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South Dakota Vacations

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South Dakota cultural contributions The successful integration of Latinos into the Huron community is due directly to the diligent efforts of the city council, the local school district, the business community, and the religious community. The Workforce Development Task Force produced a comprehensive Spanish video to acquaint newcomers with the community. A seminar titled Understanding, Appreciating, and Communicating with the Hispanic Population was well attended. The seminar was delivered by Jill Luque, an ELL and Spanish Instructor at Cornerstones Career Learning Center. In order to assist new Spanish-speaking students, the Huron school district translated most registration materials, as well as

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