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Rio lives in the metropolitan Chicago area. His Abuela loves to take him and his family to different parks and museums. Today Abuela takes them to the Brookfield Zoo where Rio learns that the animals are like him in some ways. All profits from the sale of this book will go toward providing books for children at Gads Hill Center's Early Childhood Learning Program and other nonprofit child and parent support programs. ---- Río vive en el área metropolitana de Chicago. A su Abuela le encanta llevarlo a él y a su familia a diferentes parques y museos. Hoy, Abuela los llevó al zoológico de Brookfield en donde Río aprende que los animales se parecen a él en algunos aspectos. Todos las ganancias que se obtengan de la venta de este libro se destinarán a brindar libros para niños en el programa Early Childhood Learning del Gad Hill Center y a otros programas de niños y apoyo para padres sin fines de lucro.
Despite some of the darker aspects of the upper San Juan Basin, such as the Meeker Massacre, "Mexican Flats," and the presence of the Ku Klux Klan, the fact remains that Utes, Anglos, and Hispanics have co-existed peacefully together in this region for well over a century. Collected in this new book and accented with over 100 vintage images is an oral history of La Plata County and the surrounding areas, featuring the voices of cowboys and Native Americans, ranchers and miners, outlaws and in-laws alike. In compiling these stories of local San Juan Basin residents, Fred Wildfang has recreated life during turn-of-the-century Southwestern Colorado. These individual recollections detail the hardships and triumphs of early pioneer families from the San Juan Basin, including tales of the Old West movie sets, arranged marriages, rash elopements, runaway horses, and ancient native rituals. The voices captured here epitomize the spirit of "nan¡-ma"-as the Utes say-"together," a word meant to stand for a spirit of cooperation among all the peoples in this land.
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Accepted notions of demographics in the United States often contend that Latinos have traditionally been confined to the Southwest and urban centers of the East Coast, but Latinos have been living in the Midwest since the late nineteenth century. Their presence has rarely been documented and studied, in spite of their widespread participation in the industrial development of the Midwest, its communications infrastructure and labor movements. The populations of Puerto Rican, Mexican, Cuban and other Hispanic origins living in the region have often been seen as removed not only from mainstream America but also from the movements for human and civil rights that dominated Latino public discourse in the Southwest and Northeast during the 1960s and 1970s. In the first text examining Latinos in this region, historians and social science scholars have come together to document and evaluate the efforts and progress toward social justice. Distinguished scholars examine such diverse topics as advocacy efforts, civil rights and community organizations, Latina Civil Rights efforts, ethnic diversity and political identity, effects of legislation for Homeland Security, and political empowerment.