Midwest Genealogy Center: Discover YOUR History
Chronicles the Genealogical mission of the Mid-Continent Public Library Genealogy and Local History Branch. It further explains that the collection has outgrown the present facility resulting in a new building, The Midwest Genealogy Center, being constructed to house this world class collection.
The Immigration History of the United States of America
This mini documentary explains the history of settlement in the United States of America: from the Natives who first populated the land to the Mexican migrants who arrive today.
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Council of State Archivists Government Careers Webinar [ MARA Webcast ]
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Join members of the Council of State Archivists to hear about exciting and varied experiences in careers as government archivists and records managers. Guest speakers include the director of the Kansas state archives; an Illinois archivist who writes and edits state archives publications, manages grants, and is a records board deputy coordinator; and an archivist who works in proactive, secure, and efficient management of electronic records in Oregon.
Biography: Cathy Popovitch
Cathy Popovitch is a records archivist in the Publications Unit of the Illinois State Archives. She currently writes and edits the state's archives publications and is in charge of the online descriptive inventory. She serves as the chief grants manager for the Illinois State Archives and deputy coordinator for the Illinois State Historical Records Advisory Board. She has a Bachelor’s degree in History from Millikin University and a Master’s degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois.
Biography: Matt Veatch
Matt Veatch is the state archivist of Kansas at the Kansas Historical Society, a position he has held since 2006. A past-president of the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) and former co-chair of CoSA’s State Electronic Records Initiative (SERI), Veatch has been actively engaged with electronic records management and digital preservation challenges since the mid-1990s.
Biography: Kristopher Stenson
Kristopher Stenson is the administrator for the Oregon Records Management Solution at the Oregon State Archives, where he works with state and local government agencies to proactively manage their electronic records securely and efficiently in a centralized ERM environment. He previously worked as the electronic records archivist for the Illinois State Archives. Stenson holds an MLS from Indiana University and an MA in History from Washington State University.
Indigenous People's History Conclusion Part 1
The American history you learned in high school is inaccurate, incomplete and biased as heck. Join me to hear history from a people's perspective, as opposed to the perspective of nations and rulers.
Career Fair for Middle and High School Students
“Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”
—John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961
To honor the JFK centennial, teachers and students are invited to explore careers at the National Archives. Students can explore a variety of career fields including Exhibits, IT, Conservation, Security, Social Media and communications, Research Services, Education & Public Programs, Diversity & Inclusion, Audiovisual, and Graphic Design. The Archivist of the United States will lead a conversation about public service at the end of the fair.
Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II
In the tradition of Hidden Figures and The Girls of Atomic City, Liza Mundy’s Code Girls is the astonishing, untold story of the young American women who cracked key Axis codes, helping to secure Allied victory and revolutionizing the field of cryptanalysis. A book signing will follow the program.
Irish Americans | Wikipedia audio article
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Irish Americans
00:00:47 1 Irish immigration to the United States
00:00:58 1.1 17th to mid-19th century
00:05:21 1.1.1 Irish in the South
00:08:46 1.2 Mid-19th century and later
00:11:14 1.2.1 Civil War through early 20th century
00:18:37 1.2.2 Language
00:21:08 1.3 Occupations
00:25:05 1.3.1 Local government
00:26:14 1.3.2 Police
00:27:34 1.3.3 Teachers
00:28:57 1.3.4 Nuns
00:30:13 2 Religion
00:31:24 2.1 Irish Catholic and Irish Protestant relations
00:35:11 2.2 Catholics
00:40:46 2.3 Protestants
00:41:49 2.3.1 Presbyterians
00:44:58 2.3.2 Methodists
00:45:54 3 Discrimination
00:48:37 3.1 Stereotypes
00:52:06 4 Sense of heritage
00:54:27 4.1 Cities
00:59:19 5 Notable people
00:59:28 5.1 In politics and government
01:03:00 5.2 Political leanings
01:08:52 5.2.1 American presidents with Irish ancestry
01:17:10 5.2.1.1 Vice Presidents of Irish descent
01:17:48 5.2.1.2 Other presidents of Irish descent
01:18:05 5.2.2 Irish-American Justices of the Supreme Court
01:18:41 6 Contributions to American culture
01:24:28 7 Sports
01:25:26 7.1 Baseball
01:27:02 7.2 Gaelic sports
01:27:28 8 Entertainment
01:28:42 9 Irish-American communities
01:29:56 10 See also
01:30:50 11 Notes
01:30:58 12 Other sources
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Irish Americans (Irish: Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are an ethnic group comprising Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Ireland, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics. About 33 million Americans — 10.5% of the total population — reported Irish ancestry in the 2013 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. This compares with a population of 6.7 million on the island of Ireland. Three million people separately identified as Scotch-Irish, whose ancestors were Ulster Scots and Anglo-Irish Protestant Dissenters who emigrated from Ireland to the United States. However, whether the Scotch-Irish should be considered Irish is disputed.
European American
European Americans (also known as Euro-Americans) are Americans with ancestry from Europe.
The Spanish were the first Europeans to establish a continuous presence in what is now the United States. Martín de Argüelles born 1566, San Agustín, La Florida, was the first known person of European descent born in what is now the United States. Twenty-one years later, Virginia Dare, born in 1587 on Roanoke Island in present-day North Carolina, was the first child born in the Thirteen Colonies to English parents.
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Meyer Fishbein Remembers
On November 20, 2013, the National Archives Assembly hosted a live interview and audience Q&A session with Mr. Meyer Fishbein, a long-time appraisal archivist (retired 1980), SAA Fellow, and electronic records pioneer. Rod Ross from Legislative Archives conducted the interview.
ThisDay January 17, 2019
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The community owns and operates its own cable television network. Village Television provides daily local origination programming to the Laguna Woods Village community, covering community news, highlights of community events, feature stories, and entertainment programs, as well as live broadcasts of homeowner’s association meetings and live broadcasts of the Laguna Woods City Council meetings on Channel 31.
Ken Burns & Henry Louis Gates, Jr. in conversation with Michel Martin
Documentarian Ken Burns and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., join together to discuss the prevailing political fault line in the US: race. In this illuminating and cogent exchange, they examine why race is critical to their understanding of America and their work—and how, as a nation, we deal with race today. Their discussion is complemented with clips from Jackie Robinson, Burns' forthcoming epic about the impact and legacy of the first black baseball player to play in the major leagues, and Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise, Gates' chronicle of the civil rights movement culminating in the election of Obama. (Both films are scheduled to premiere on PBS in 2016.)
Both figures have explored how race is part of the American fabric in their work. Burns’ landmark Emmy Award-winning television series The Civil War and Gates’ unprecedented four-part series African American Lives explore not just the role African-Americans have played throughout our history, but also how race, conceptions of race, and ideas about freedom and independence influence our politics and policies. They trace the historical significance of race from abolitionism to civil rights to the war on poverty—and consider what it means to have an African-American president.
Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:17 1 Background
00:03:26 1.1 Early life of Barack Obama
00:06:20 1.2 Origins of the claims
00:10:07 2 Release of the birth certificates
00:10:18 2.1 Short form, 2008
00:14:56 2.1.1 Rejection by conspiracy theorists
00:17:04 2.1.2 Hawaii Department of Health response
00:20:18 2.2 Long form, 2011
00:22:38 2.2.1 Rejection by conspiracy theorists
00:23:49 2.2.2 Showing papers
00:24:42 3 False claims
00:24:52 3.1 Born in Kenya
00:26:25 3.1.1 Obama's paternal step-grandmother's version of events
00:28:32 3.1.2 Fake Kenyan birth certificate
00:30:27 3.2 Not born in Hawaii
00:34:35 3.3 Lost U.S. citizenship
00:36:13 4 Disputes over natural-born citizen requirements
00:37:31 4.1 Parental citizenship
00:39:07 4.2 Dual citizenship
00:41:31 5 Campaigners and proponents
00:48:54 5.1 Donald Trump
00:52:59 5.2 Joe Arpaio
00:54:52 5.3 Matthew Hill
00:56:25 5.4 Roy Moore
00:56:55 5.5 Richard Shelby
00:57:52 5.6 Roy Blunt
00:58:46 5.7 Jean Schmidt
00:59:46 5.8 Nathan Deal
01:01:01 5.9 Sarah Palin
01:03:35 5.10 Tracey Mann
01:05:39 5.11 David Vitter
01:06:30 5.12 Newt Gingrich
01:07:39 5.13 Andy Martin
01:08:24 5.14 Mike Huckabee
01:09:16 5.15 Michele Bachmann
01:10:08 5.16 Mike Coffman
01:11:14 5.17 Arizona electors
01:12:03 6 Political impact
01:18:20 6.1 Opinion surveys
01:24:53 6.2 Dilemma for Republicans
01:26:39 7 Commentary and criticism
01:37:43 8 Legislation and litigation
01:40:41 9 Impact on the 2012 presidential election and beyond
01:42:32 10 White House responses
01:43:42 10.1 Press secretary's response
01:46:33 10.2 Barack Obama's response
01:51:59 11 See also
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During Barack Obama's campaign for president in 2008, throughout his presidency, and afterwards, a number of conspiracy theories falsely asserted Obama was ineligible to be President of the United States because he was not a natural-born citizen of the U.S. as required by Article Two of the Constitution.
Theories alleged that Obama's published birth certificate was a forgery—that his actual birthplace was not Hawaii but Kenya. Other theories alleged that Obama became a citizen of Indonesia in childhood, thereby losing his U.S. citizenship. Still others claimed that Obama was not a natural-born U.S. citizen because he was born a dual citizen (British and American). A number of political commentators have characterized these various claims as a racist reaction to Obama's status as the first African-American president of the United States.These claims were promoted by fringe theorists (pejoratively referred to as birthers), some of whom sought court rulings either to declare Obama ineligible to take office, or granting access to various documents which they claimed would evidence such ineligibility; none of these efforts were successful. Some political opponents, especially in the Republican Party, have expressed skepticism about Obama's citizenship or been unwilling to acknowledge it; some have proposed legislation which would require presidential candidates to provide proof of eligibility.Expressed belief in such theories has persisted despite Obama's pre-election release of his official Hawaiian birth certificate in 2008, confirmation by the Hawaii Department of Health based on the original documents, the April 2011 release of a certified copy of Obama's original Certificate of Live Birth (or long-form birth certificate), and contemporaneous birth announcements published in Hawaii newspapers. Polls conducted in 2010 (before the April 2011 release) suggested that at least 25% of adult Americans said that they doubted Obama's U.S. birth, and subsequently a May 2011 Gallup poll found that the percentage had fallen to 13% of American adults (23% of Republicans) who continued to exp ...
Law in Action Lecture- 3.8.19
University of Wisconsin Law School- Law in Action Lecture- March 8, 2019.
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3.28 AIR Signature Tune/Opening Announcement
3:30 Deori Song: Artist: Soyender Deori & Pty
3:45 Programme in Mijumishimi
4:05 Porogramme in Khampti
4:25 Programme in Wanchoo
4:45 News in Hindi
4.55 News in English
5:00 Programme in Idu
5.20 Programme in Tangsa
5.40 Programme in Nocte
6:00 Anchalik Batori
6.05 Programme Summary & Highlight
6.10 Vrindagaan:
6.15 “GANYA RAIJOR ANUSTHAN” (Rural Programme) / Interview on “Cholesterol Jonito Rog”
With Dr. Rakhee Shyam
6:45 Sandhiyar Anchalik Batori
6:55 Ajir Prasanga
7.00 News in Hindi
7.05 News in Assamese
7.15 “CHAH SRAMIKAR ASOR”/ (T.G. Programme)/ Musical Feature on “Subha Mokor Songkranti” Written by Debananda Kurmi
7.45 Adhunik Geet: Artist: Deepali Kakoti
8.00 Time & Metre Reading: Jivanar Digh Bani (Radio Autobiography) Interview with Bhogeshwar Baruah (A Renown Athlete & Recipient of “Arjun” Award) Interviewer Rupjyoti Dowerah
8.30 English Talk/Talk on Diabetic foot- Causes & Prevention” By Dr Pranjal Deori
8.40 Programme Highlight
8.42 Commercial Spot:
8.45 Samachar Sandhya:
9.00 News at Nine:
9.15 Commercial Spot:
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9:25 Nishar Anchalik Batori
9.30 North East Collage
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10.30 Close Down.
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5.35 Bhaktigeeti: 1.Artist: Mitali Das (Borgeet-Shankardev) Udhabo Solohu… 2. Artist: Dilip Bora & Pty (Naan Prasanga) Ramo Krishna… 3. Artist: Rameswar Pathak (Lokageet) Doyar Sagar Probhu… 4. Artist: Bihu Ram Tamuli & Pty (Tokarigeet) Aahi Palu… 5. Artist: Krishna Lahkar Bordoloi (Bhajan-Kabeer) Hori Bhajana…
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6.05 Gandhi Chinta & Programme Summary
6:10 Swasthya Charcha: Interview on Migraine (Muror Bish) With Dr. Narayan Upadhayay Part: V
6:15 Borgeet: Artist: Bornali Bora
6:30 Classical Music: Artist: Pt. C.R. Vyas Raga: Bhairav Bahar
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7.05 News in Assamese
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7.30 Quotation: GEETANJALI: 1.Artist: Toufika Ullah Lyc: Satyen Sarmah Phul Borokhune… 2. Artist: Tandrali Hazarika Lyc: Idrish Ali Rongere…. 3. Artist: Tulika Sarmah Lyc: Nurul Haque Aaji Probhator… 4. Artist: Trisharani Saikia Lyc: Hemanta Kr. Baruah Godhuli Gupale… 5. Artist: Tarali Sarmah Lyc: Nalini Bala Devi Puwoti Nishar…
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8.15 Morning News
8.30 North East News Bulletin in English
8.35 “SURAR PANCHOI” (Composite) Assamese Film Songs
8.50 Puwar Anchalik Batori
9.00 Jilar Rehrup
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11.58 AIR Signature Tune/Opening Announcement
12.00 News in English
12.05 Singpho Songs:
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12.30 Hindi Film Song: Film: Phool Aur Kaante, Mohabbatein, Refugee, Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
1.00 News in English:
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1.50 Adhunik Geet: Artist: Deepali Borthakur
2.00 “Kuhinpaat” (Tinytots)
2.15 Dopahar Samachar:
2.30 Western Music:
3.00 Close Down
TRANSMISSION III (3.28 PM to 10.30 PM)
3.28 AIR Signature Tune/Opening Announcement
3.30 Mishing Songs: Artist: Tongki Pegu & Pty
3.45 Programme in Mijumishimi
4.05 Programme in Khampti
4.25 Programme in Wancho
4.45 News in Hindi
4.55 News in English.
5.00 Programme in Idu
5.20 Programme in Tangsa
5.40 Programme in Nocte
6.00 Anchalik Batori
6.05 Programme Summary
6.10 Niyog Batori
6.15 GANYA RAIJOR ANUSTHAN (Rural Programme) Interview on “Krishokor babe Bibhinna Sorkari Achoni”
With Sushil Gogoi
6.45 Sandhiyar Anchalik Batori
6.55 Aajir Prasanga:
7.00 News in Hindi
7.05 News in Assamese
7.15 “YUVABANI”: (Youth Programme) English Edition of Yuvabani
7.45 Daak Pakhili
8.00 Time & Metre Reading “Ekalabya” Sponsored Programme of K.K. Handique State Open University
8.30 Geetar Sarai: Artist: Jebin Sultana Production: Arup Bordoloi.
8.40 Programme Highlight
8.42 Commercial Spot:
8.45 Samachar Sandhya:
9.00 News at Nine
9.15 Commercial Spot:
9.16 Bare Rahania: (Bhajan) Artist: Utpala Sharma
9.25 Nishar Anchalik Batori:
9.30 Radio Serial- “KELI GOPAAL” Presented by Chamuguri Satra, Majuli Produced by Lohit Deka
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Native Americans in the United States | Wikipedia audio article
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Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States, except Hawaii. There are over 500 federally recognized tribes within the US, about half of which are associated with Indian reservations. The term American Indian excludes Native Hawaiians and some Alaska Natives, while Native Americans (as defined by the US Census) are American Indians, plus Alaska Natives of all ethnicities. Native Hawaiians are not counted as Native Americans by the US Census, instead being included in the Census grouping of Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander.
The ancestors of modern Native Americans arrived in what is now the United States at least 15,000 years ago, possibly much earlier, from Asia via Beringia. A vast variety of peoples, societies and cultures subsequently developed. Native Americans were greatly affected by the European colonization of the Americas, which began in 1492, and their population declined precipitously due to introduced diseases, warfare, and slavery. After the founding of the United States, many Native American peoples were subjected to warfare, removals and one-sided treaties, and they continued to suffer from discriminatory government policies into the 21st century. Since the 1960s, Native American self-determination movements have resulted in changes to the lives of Native Americans, though there are still many contemporary issues faced by Native Americans. Today, there are over five million Native Americans in the United States, 78% of whom live outside reservations.
When the United States was created, established Native American tribes were generally considered semi-independent nations, as they generally lived in communities separate from British settlers. The federal government signed treaties at a government-to-government level until the Indian Appropriations Act of 1871 ended recognition of independent native nations, and started treating them as domestic dependent nations subject to federal law. This law did preserve the rights and privileges agreed to under the treaties, including a large degree of tribal sovereignty. For this reason, many (but not all) Native American reservations are still independent of state law for this reason, and actions of tribal citizens on these reservations are subject only to tribal courts and federal law.
The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 granted U.S. citizenship to all Native Americans born in the United States who had not yet obtained it. This emptied the Indians not taxed category established by the United States Constitution, allowed natives to vote in state and federal elections, and extended the Fourteenth Amendment protections granted to people subject to the jurisdiction of the United States. However, some states continued to deny Native Americans voting rights for several decades. Bill of Rights protections do not apply to tribal governments, except for those mandated by the Indian Civil Rights Act of 1968.
2017 Debra Lee Lecture on Slavery and Justice: Stanley Nelson
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
This year’s Debra Lee lecturer is distinguished filmmaker and MacArthur “Genius” Fellow, Mr. Stanley Nelson Jr. Mr. Nelson received the 2013 National Medal in the Humanities from President Barack Obama. Nelson’s films examine the history and experiences of African Americans; his previous film, Freedom Riders, premiered at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and aired nationally in May 2011 on PBS to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides, and received 4 Primetime Emmys.
Brown University
May 2, 2017
Irish American | Wikipedia audio article
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Irish Americans (Irish: Gael-Mheiriceánaigh) are an ethnic group comprising Americans who have full or partial ancestry from Ireland, especially those who identify with that ancestry, along with their cultural characteristics. About 33 million Americans — 10.5% of the total population — reported Irish ancestry in the 2013 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S. Census Bureau. This compares with a population of 6.7 million on the island of Ireland. Three million people separately identified as Scotch-Irish, whose ancestors were Ulster Scots and Anglo-Irish Protestant Dissenters who emigrated from Ireland to the United States. However, whether the Scotch-Irish should be considered Irish is disputed.
Mexican American | Wikipedia audio article
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Mexican American
00:05:20 1 History of Mexican Americans
00:13:22 1.1 19th-century and 20th-century Mexican migration
00:15:23 1.2 20th century
00:19:27 2 Race and ethnicity
00:24:00 2.1 US census bureau classifications
00:27:59 2.2 Politics and debate of racial classification
00:33:44 3 Economic and social issues
00:33:54 3.1 Immigration issues
00:36:34 4 Discrimination and stereotypes
00:39:28 5 Social status and assimilation
00:43:22 5.1 Intermarriage
00:46:07 6 Segregation issues
00:46:16 6.1 Housing market practices
00:47:08 6.2 Battle of Chavez Ravine
00:48:14 6.3 Latino segregation versus Black segregation
00:52:08 6.4 Segregated schools
00:53:23 6.5 Immigration and segregation
00:55:52 7 The Chicano movement and the Chicano Moratorium
00:57:28 8 Education
00:57:37 8.1 Parental Involvement
01:04:05 9 Mexican American communities
01:11:05 9.1 Major US destinations
01:13:04 9.2 List of states by Mexican American population
01:13:15 10 Notable people
01:13:24 10.1 Historical figures
01:13:33 10.2 Cinema
01:13:41 10.3 Music
01:13:49 10.4 Journalists and writers
01:13:58 10.5 Entertainment personalities
01:14:08 10.6 Comedians
01:14:16 10.7 Government
01:14:54 10.8 Business
01:15:02 10.9 Military
01:15:11 10.10 Science and technology
01:15:20 10.11 Sport
01:15:28 10.12 Religious leaders
01:16:02 11 See also
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Mexican Americans (Spanish: mexicoamericanos or estadounidenses de origen mexicano) are Americans of full or partial Mexican descent. As of July 2016, Mexican Americans made up 11.2% of the United States' population, as 36.3 million U.S. residents identified as being of full or partial Mexican ancestry. As of July 2016, Mexican Americans comprised 63.2% of all Hispanics and Latinos in the United States. Many Mexican Americans reside in the American Southwest; over 60% of all Mexican Americans reside in the states of California and Texas. As of 2016, Mexicans make up 53% of total percent population of Latin foreign-born. Mexicans are also the largest foreign-born population, accounting for 27% of the total foreign-born population. Of the estimated 11 million unauthorized immigrants living in the United States, 56% are from Mexico.
The United States is home to the second-largest Mexican community in the world, second only to Mexico itself, and comprising more than 24% of the entire Mexican-origin population of the world. Mexican American families of indigenous heritage have been in the country for at least 15,000 years, and mestizo Mexican American history spans more than 400 years, since the 1598 founding of Spanish New Mexico. Spanish subjects of New Spain in the Southwest included New Mexican Hispanos and Pueblo Indians and Genizaros, Tejanos, Californios and Mission Indians have existed since the area was part of New Spain. The majority of these historically primarily Hispanophone populations eventually adopted English as their first language as part of their overall Americanization. Approximately ten percent of the current Mexican-American population are descended from the early colonial settlers who became U.S. citizens in 1848 via the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo which ended the Mexican–American War.Although most of the original Mexican American population were officially deemed white citizens by the treaty, they have faced and continue to face discrimination in the form of Anti-Mexican sentiment and Hispanophobia, historically rooted in the idea that Mexicans were too Indian to be citizens; Indigenous Mexican Americans, such as Pueblo, were not granted citizenship until the 1920s. Despite assurances to the contrary, the property rights of formerly Mexican citizens were often not honored by the U.S. in accordance with modifications to and interpretations of the Treaty. Continuous large-scale migration, particularly after the 1910 Mexican Revolution, added to this original population. During the Great Depression, Mexican Americans were scapegoated and subjecte ...
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The Pre-Columbian era incorporates all period subdivisions in the history and prehistory of the Americas before the appearance of significant European influences on the American continent, spanning the time of the original settlement in the Upper Paleolithic period to European colonization during the Early Modern period.
While the phrase pre-Columbian era literally refers only to the time preceding Christopher Columbus's voyages of 1492, in practice the phrase is usually used to denote the entire history of indigenous Americas cultures until those cultures were exterminated, diminished, or extensively altered by Europeans, even if this happened decades or centuries after Columbus's first landing. For this reason the alternative terms of Precontact Americas, Pre-Colonial Americas or Prehistoric Americas are also in use. In areas of Latin America the term usually used is Pre-Hispanic.
Many pre-Columbian civilizations established hallmarks which included permanent settlements, cities, agriculture, civic and monumental architecture, major earthworks, and complex societal hierarchies. Some of these civilizations had long faded by the time of the first permanent European colonies and the arrival of enslaved Africans (c. late 16th–early 17th centuries), and are known only through archaeological investigations and oral history. Other civilizations were contemporary with the colonial period and were described in European historical accounts of the time. A few, such as the Maya civilization, had their own written records. Because many Christian Europeans of the time viewed such texts as heretical, men like Diego de Landa destroyed many texts in pyres, even while seeking to preserve native histories. Only a few hidden documents have survived in their original languages, while others were transcribed or dictated into Spanish, giving modern historians glimpses of ancient culture and knowledge.
Indigenous American cultures continue to evolve after the pre-Columbian era. Many of these peoples and their descendants continue traditional practices while evolving and adapting new cultural practices and technologies into their lives.
Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)