Foreigners in Their Own Land
http://video.pbs.org//video/2365075996/
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Latino Americans – Foreigners in Their Own Land Film Questions
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What is the importance in researching and making public, information on people like Juan Seguin, Mariano Vallejo, Las Gorras Blancas, Apolinaria Lorenzana, etc.?
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Juan Seguin undergoes an identity crisis that still, hundreds of years later, many Latinos (and other minorities in the US face). What was this “crisis” and have you ever undergone a similar experience?
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What factors led to Mexico losing HALF its territory to the United States?
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According to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, what rights were to be warranted to the 80,000 Mexicans living in the lands seized by the US after the Mexican-American War? Was the Treaty upheld? Why or why not?
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Explain how the “Hispanos”/Mexican-Americans did not succumb to perils suffered by Mexicans, or Tejanos, & Californios in Texas and California?