Foreigners in Their Own Land

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Latino Americans – Foreigners in Their Own Land Film Questions

 

1. What is the importance in researching and making public, information on people like Juan Seguin, Mariano Vallejo, Las Gorras Blancas, Apolinaria Lorenzana, etc.?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. 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?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. What factors led to Mexico losing HALF its territory to the United States? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. 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?

 

 

 

 

 

1. Explain how the “Hispanos”/Mexican-Americans did not succumb to perils suffered by Mexicans, or Tejanos, & Californios in Texas and California?