Native-Born Acadians and the Equality Ideal James Harvey Domengeaux
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The French Texans
Texans One and All The French Texans Although a French flag of some sort is represented in “six flags over Tex- as” displays, France never—in any sense of political control or official claims—flew a flag over Texas and never gave her own citizens strong reasons for emigration. However, René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, did make one foray west of the drainage of the Mississippi, and General Charles Lallemand did lead a short-lived military colony into East Texas. France, in the New World, was more interested in trade than settlement and was often distracted by continental European problems. The nation was neither equipped for colonial ventures nor had that much interest Revised 2013 in the western Gulf of Mexico. Nevertheless, in 1685 the young Sieur de La Salle landed at Matagorda Bay, Texas, some 600 miles west of his target: the Mississippi River. The few colonists he brought were to found a colony at the mouth of the Mississippi, to which France did have a claim, and thus tie down France's claims that, for a time, stretched from Canada to the Gulf—in theory. Encountering storms and perhaps suffering from bad navigation, the ships found the Spanish coast. Navigation in those days could determine, with an exactness of perhaps 30 miles on a good day, Rene-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle position north and south. But the day was not good, and the northern shore of the Gulf of Mexico stretches more east and west. In those days, east and west positions on a rotating globe were hard to determine. -
“Mexican Repatriation: New Estimates of Total and Excess Return in The
“Mexican Repatriation: New Estimates of Total and Excess Return in the 1930s” Paper for the Meetings of the Population Association of America Washington, DC 2011 Brian Gratton Faculty of History Arizona State University Emily Merchant ICPSR University of Michigan Draft: Please do not quote or cite without permission from the authors 1 Introduction In the wake of the economic collapse of the1930s, hundreds of thousands of Mexican immigrants and Mexican Americans returned to Mexico. Their repatriation has become an infamous episode in Mexican-American history, since public campaigns arose in certain locales to prompt persons of Mexican origin to leave. Antagonism toward immigrants appeared in many countries as unemployment spread during the Great Depression, as witnessed in the violent expulsion of the Chinese from northwestern Mexico in 1931 and 1932.1 In the United States, restriction on European immigration had already been achieved through the 1920s quota laws, and outright bans on categories of Asian immigrants had been in place since the 19th century. The mass immigration of Mexicans in the 1920s—in large part a product of the success of restrictionist policy—had made Mexicans the second largest and newest immigrant group, and hostility toward them rose across that decade.2 Mexicans became a target for nativism as the economic collapse heightened competition for jobs and as welfare costs and taxes necessary to pay for them rose. Still, there were other immigrants, including those from Canada, who received substantially less criticism, and the repatriation campaigns against Mexicans stand out in several locales for their virulence and coercive nature. Repatriation was distinct from deportation, a federal process. -
Redress Movements in Canada
Editor: Marlene Epp, Conrad Grebel University College University of Waterloo Series Advisory Committee: Laura Madokoro, McGill University Jordan Stanger-Ross, University of Victoria Sylvie Taschereau, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières Copyright © the Canadian Historical Association Ottawa, 2018 Published by the Canadian Historical Association with the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage, Government of Canada ISSN: 2292-7441 (print) ISSN: 2292-745X (online) ISBN: 978-0-88798-296-5 Travis Tomchuk is the Curator of Canadian Human Rights History at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, and holds a PhD from Queen’s University. Jodi Giesbrecht is the Manager of Research & Curation at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights, and holds a PhD from the University of Toronto. Cover image: Japanese Canadian redress rally at Parliament Hill, 1988. Photographer: Gordon King. Credit: Nikkei National Museum 2010.32.124. REDRESS MOVEMENTS IN CANADA Travis Tomchuk & Jodi Giesbrecht Canadian Museum for Human Rights All rights reserved. No part of this publication maybe reproduced, in any form or by any electronic ormechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the Canadian Historical Association. Ottawa, 2018 The Canadian Historical Association Immigration And Ethnicity In Canada Series Booklet No. 37 Introduction he past few decades have witnessed a substantial outpouring of Tapologies, statements of regret and recognition, commemorative gestures, compensation, and related measures -
Acadiens and Cajuns.Indb
canadiana oenipontana 9 Ursula Mathis-Moser, Günter Bischof (dirs.) Acadians and Cajuns. The Politics and Culture of French Minorities in North America Acadiens et Cajuns. Politique et culture de minorités francophones en Amérique du Nord innsbruck university press SERIES canadiana oenipontana 9 iup • innsbruck university press © innsbruck university press, 2009 Universität Innsbruck, Vizerektorat für Forschung 1. Auflage Alle Rechte vorbehalten. Umschlag: Gregor Sailer Umschlagmotiv: Herménégilde Chiasson, “Evangeline Beach, an American Tragedy, peinture no. 3“ Satz: Palli & Palli OEG, Innsbruck Produktion: Fred Steiner, Rinn www.uibk.ac.at/iup ISBN 978-3-902571-93-9 Ursula Mathis-Moser, Günter Bischof (dirs.) Acadians and Cajuns. The Politics and Culture of French Minorities in North America Acadiens et Cajuns. Politique et culture de minorités francophones en Amérique du Nord Contents — Table des matières Introduction Avant-propos ....................................................................................................... 7 Ursula Mathis-Moser – Günter Bischof des matières Table — By Way of an Introduction En guise d’introduction ................................................................................... 23 Contents Herménégilde Chiasson Beatitudes – BéatitudeS ................................................................................................. 23 Maurice Basque, Université de Moncton Acadiens, Cadiens et Cajuns: identités communes ou distinctes? ............................ 27 History and Politics Histoire -
The Face of Recovery
The Face of Recovery The American Red Cross Response to Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. –– F. Scott Fitzgerald Telling Their Story Two years ago, something terrible happened. “The story of hurricane What took people generations to build, nature destroyed in hours. America watched in shock. And America—in fact, the world— recovery is told one wanted to help. person at a time.” Two years ago, something amazing happened. Nearly a quarter of a million people dropped what they were doing and came to help. People drove night and day from as far away as the state of Washington to help, knowing that when they arrived their only place to sleep might be in the back of a truck. Most did not know anyone in the Gulf. They just wanted to help. Hundreds of thousands more people who could not drop everything sent financial contributions instead. The nonprofit sector was entrusted with more than $3 billion to try to help, of which the American Red Cross received $2.1 billion. That generosity shattered previous records for disaster giving. The work nonprofits did to provide basic needs to evacuees surpassed records as well. The Red Cross relief effort was 20 times bigger than ever before. Approximately 4.5 million people turned to the Red Cross for help. Thanks to the kindness and generosity of our donors and volunteers, they got a warm, safe, dry place to go with their families, food to eat, a sympathetic ear and the means to replace lost clothes, medicines, diapers and other essentials. -
Franco-Americans in New England: Statistics from the American Community Survey
1 Franco-Americans in New England: Statistics from the American Community Survey Prepared for the Franco-American Taskforce October 24, 2012 James Myall 2 Introduction: As per the request of the State of Maine Legislative Franco-American Task Force, the following is an analysis of the Franco-American population in New England from data collected by the United States Census Bureau. This report accompanies ‘Franco-Americans in Maine’, which was also delivered to the Task Force, and is designed to determine whether the trends visible in Maine’s Franco-American population are reflected in other New England states (i.e. Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont). Information concerning methodology is repeated below for the sake of completeness. About the American Community Survey: The American Community Survey (ACS) is an annual survey conducted by the US Census Bureau to provide a broader snapshot of American life than is possible through the decennial census. The statistics gathered by the ACS are used by Congress and other agencies to determine the needs of Federal, State and local populations and agencies. The ACS is collected from randomly selected populations in every state to provide estimates which reflect American society as a whole. The data for this report was taken from the ACS using the online tool of the US Census Bureau, American Factfinder, <http://factfinder2.census.gov>. This report largely relies on the 2010 5-year survey, which allows analysis of smaller population units than the 1-year survey which is more accurate. Although the ACS surveys all Americans, the website allows users to filter data by several categories, including ancestry and ethnic origin, thus allowing a comprehensive picture of the Franco population. -
Emergence and Progression of Acadian Ethnic and Political Identities
Emergence and Progression of neutrality, environmental and ecological Acadian Ethnic and Political factors, and the colonial past of the Aca- Identities: Alliance and Land- dian peoples, including the Deportation and nationalistic Renaissance, I must em- Based Inter-Peoples Relations in phasize that there were two distinctive po- Early Acadia to Today litical periods in the pre-Deportation era: one of sharing and one of taking. The dif- Katie K. MacLeod ference between these two political periods is clearly outlined by John Borrows in his Introduction discussion of the Treaty at Niagara: This article examines the develop- ment of Acadian ethnic and political iden- In early stages of First Nation/Set- tities through an analysis of alliance and re- tler association, the English failed lations of sharing with the Mi'kmaq and op- to comprehend some of the diplo- position and relations of taking with British matic fundamentals that First Na- colonizers. It also seeks to build an under- tions required in the definition of standing of how land-based identities in the their constitutional relationship. past influenced the development of these One example of the British failure peoples. With a focus on the Acadian peo- in this regard concerned the presen- ples, I provide an ethnohistorical investiga- tation of gifts. The French had fol- tion into the aspects of this identity which lowed the diplomatic formalities were borrowed from, added to, or disrupted which formalized First Na- by, these inter-peoples relations with the tions/Settler relations and were thus Mi’kmaq and the British. Exploring politi- able to maintain peace by supplying cal and ethnohistorical interpretations from gifts to all their First Nation allies. -
A Historical and Linguistic Study of the German Settlement at Roberts Cove, Louisiana
Louisiana State University LSU Digital Commons LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses Graduate School 1969 A Historical and Linguistic Study of the German Settlement at Roberts Cove, Louisiana. Stanley Joe Mccord Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses Recommended Citation Mccord, Stanley Joe, "A Historical and Linguistic Study of the German Settlement at Roberts Cove, Louisiana." (1969). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 1606. https://digitalcommons.lsu.edu/gradschool_disstheses/1606 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Graduate School at LSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses by an authorized administrator of LSU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. This dissertation has been microfilmed exactly as received 70-253 McCORD, Stanley Joe, 1936- A HISTORICAL AND LINGUISTIC STUDY OF THE GERMAN SETTLEMENT AT ROBERTS COVE, LOUISIANA. [Portions of Text in German]. The Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, Ph.D., 1969 Language and Literature, modem University Microfilms, Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. A HISTORICAL AND LINGUISTIC STUDY OF THE GERMAN SETTLEMENT AT ROBERTS COVE, LOUISIANA A Dissertation Submitted, to the Graduate Faculty of the Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in The Department of Foreign Languages fcy Stanley Joe McCord B,A.f Louisiana State University, i960 M.A., Louisiana State University, 1963 May, 1969 Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. -
CAJUNS, CREOLES, PIRATES and PLANTERS Your New Louisiana Ancestors Format Volume 1, Number 18
CAJUNS, CREOLES, PIRATES AND PLANTERS Your New Louisiana Ancestors Format Volume 1, Number 18 By Damon Veach SIG MEETING: Le Comité des Archives de la Louisiane’s African American Special Interest Group (SIG) will hold a meeting on July 25th, from 9:00 to 11:30 a.m. at the Delta Sigma Theta Life Development Center located at 688 Harding Blvd., next to Subway. The meeting is free and open to the public. Ryan Seidemann, President of the Mid City Historical Cemetery Coalition in Baton Rouge, will speak on Sweet Olive Cemetery. Officially dating back to 1898, Sweet Olive was the first cemetery for blacks incorporated in the Baton Rouge city limits. Burials are, however, believed to have occurred prior to 1898. Members of the group will give short presentations on a variety of African American genealogy topics. Cherryl Forbes Montgomery will discuss how to use Father Hebert’s Southwest Louisiana Records effectively. Barbara Shepherd Dunn will describe how she identified and documented the slave owners of her great grandmother. And, Judy Riffel will speak on the SIG’s efforts to create an East Baton Rouge Parish slave database. Time will be allowed at the end of the program for attendees to share their own genealogical problems and successes and to ask questions. With nearly 600 members, Le Comité is one of the largest genealogical groups in the state today. Its African American Genealogy SIG was formed in 2006 to help people doing African American research in Louisiana have a place to communicate and help one another. The group currently consists of 24 Le Comité members who have begun holding meetings and seminars. -
Subword Enriched and Significant Word Emphasized Framework for Hate Speech Detection
SWE2: SubWord Enriched and Significant Word Emphasized Framework for Hate Speech Detection Guanyi Mou, Pengyi Ye, Kyumin Lee Worcester Polytechnic Institute {gmou,pye3,kmlee}@wpi.edu ABSTRACT of online social networks, hate speech is spreading faster and af- Hate speech detection on online social networks has become one of fecting a larger population than before in human history across the 1 the emerging hot topics in recent years. With the broad spread and world . Therefore, quickly and accurately identifying hate speech fast propagation speed across online social networks, hate speech becomes crucial for keeping a harmonic and healthy online social makes significant impacts on society by increasing prejudice and environment, mitigating the possible conflicts, and protecting the hurting people. Therefore, there are aroused attention and con- diversity of our society. Hate speech detection is also helpful for cern from both industry and academia. In this paper, we address public sentiment analysis and is useful as one of the pre-processing the hate speech problem and propose a novel hate speech detec- steps in content recommendation and chatterbot development [3]. tion framework called SWE2, which only relies on the content of Over the years, researchers have proposed various methods for messages and automatically identifies hate speech. In particular, detecting hate speech [2, 9, 15, 29, 33, 50], many of which have our framework exploits both word-level semantic information and focused on feature engineering. New hand-crafted features were sub-word knowledge. It is intuitively persuasive and also practi- raised and checked from different perspectives to improve their cally performs well under a situation with/without character-level overall performance. -
Improving Cultural Competence
Behavioral Health 5 Treatment for Major Racial and Ethnic Groups IN THIS CHAPTER John, 27, is an American Indian from a Northern Plains Tribe. He recently entered an outpatient treatment program in a midsized • Introduction Midwestern city to get help with his drinking and subsequent low • Counseling for African mood. John moved to the city 2 years ago and has mixed feelings and Black Americans about living there, but he does not want to return to the reserva- • Counseling for Asian tion because of its lack of job opportunities. Both John and his Americans, Native counselor are concerned that (with the exception of his girlfriend, Hawaiians, and Other Sandy, and a few neighbors) most of his current friends and Pacific Islanders coworkers are “drinking buddies.” John says his friends and family • Counseling for Hispanics on the reservation would support his recovery—including an uncle and Latinos and a best friend from school who are both in recovery—but his • Counseling for Native contact with them is infrequent. Americans • Counseling for White John says he entered treatment mostly because his drinking was Americans interfering with his job as a bus mechanic and with his relationship with his girlfriend. When the counselor asks new group members to tell a story about what has brought them to treatment, John explains the specific event that had motivated him. He describes having been at a party with some friends from work and watching one of his coworkers give a bowl of beer to his dog. The dog kept drinking until he had a seizure, and John was disgusted when peo- ple laughed. -
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cover cover next page > title: American Indian Holocaust and Survival : A Population History Since 1492 Civilization of the American Indian Series ; V. 186 author: Thornton, Russell. publisher: University of Oklahoma Press isbn10 | asin: 080612220X print isbn13: 9780806122205 ebook isbn13: 9780806170213 language: English subject Indians of North America--Population, America-- Population. publication date: 1987 lcc: E59.P75T48 1987eb ddc: 304.6/08997073 subject: Indians of North America--Population, America-- Population. cover next page > file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/Temp/Rar$EX00.794/080612220X/files/cover.html[1/17/2011 5:09:37 PM] page_i < previous page page_i next page > Page i The Civilization of the American Indian Series < previous page page_i next page > file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/Temp/Rar$EX00.794/080612220X/files/page_i.html[1/17/2011 5:09:38 PM] page_v < previous page page_v next page > Page v American Indian Holocaust and Survival A Population History Since 1492 by Russell Thornton University of Oklahoma Press : Norman and London < previous page page_v next page > file:///C:/Users/User/AppData/Local/Temp/Rar$EX00.794/080612220X/files/page_v.html[1/17/2011 5:09:38 PM] page_vi < previous page page_vi next page > Page vi BY RUSSELL THORNTON Sociology of American Indians: A Critical Bibliography (With Mary K. Grasmick) (Bloomington, Ind., 1980) The Urbanization of American Indians: A Critical Bibliography (with Gary D. Sandefur and Harold G. Grasmick) (Bloomington, Ind., 1982) We Shall Live Again: The 1870 and 1890 Ghost Dance Movements as Demographic Repitalization (New York, 1986) American Indian Holocaust and Survival: A Population History Since 1492 (Norman, 1987) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Thornton, Russell, 1942 American Indian holocaust and survival.