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Do American Indians Celebrate Thanksgiving?

Mary Mata November 22, 2012

By Dennis W. Zotigh, New America Media/Indian Country Today In thinking about my earliest memories of elementary school, I remember being asked to bring a brown paper sack to class […]

Thanksgiving Made Possible By Immigrant Farm Workers

Mary Mata

Thanksgiving, and Don Juan de Oñate

NewsTaco November 21, 2012

Things I am Grateful For

Mary Mata

By Oscar Barajas, NewsTaco Thanksgiving is a day away. I have never been a fan. I feel it is because I have never been able to get it right. As […]

Día de la Revolución: Pancho Villa and My Grandfather

NewsTaco November 20, 2012

By Tony Castro, Voxxi My grandfather, Jose Angel Castro, was 14 when he first met Pancho Villa who had fled to the northern state of Chihuahua after killing an officer […]

Our Pre-Mayflower Thanksgivings

NewsTaco

By Miguel Perez, Hidden Hispanic Heritage For Latino immigrants, no other American holiday is more precious than Thanksgiving. “El dia de accion de gracias,” as we know it in Spanish, […]

“TANKSGIVEN” School Sign Goes Viral and It Gets Ugly

Mary Mata November 19, 2012

By Latino Rebels File this one under the “unfortunate” files. As reported by the local Brownsville press, a school sign about the Thanksgiving holiday has gone viral on Facebook and it […]