Welcome to my La Raza page! Basically I established this page to honor Cesar Chavez and to help in some manner to keep his dream alive, to help gain national attention to the Farm Labor Violations that are on-going, especially to the Migrant Farm Labor Children who suffer greatly by a people who have no value towards human respect.
In the early 1970's I worked in the tomato fields south of Stockton, California, and I have worked in the grape fields in Napa Valley, somewhere outside of Davis, California. Not good wages, and not good working conditions, but when one is trying to survive, one must do what one can in order to keep a roof over one’s head, and to keep food on the table.
Street Indian? Yes. For the most part, the early years of my life, I pretty much failed at a lot of things, and today, nothing much has really changed, I'm still failing at a lot of things that I work on or am trying to put together, but hopefully, somewhere a long the line I'll succeed at something. Pan handling for nickels and dimes. Standing in soup lines? Yes, done that, even have had to eat out of garbage binds, scraping the bottom of the barrel is what it is called, but I now call it just being an alcoholic and dope head. Have a lot of eye witness’s to this, whom are still living and know my activity from that time period, which is prior to my American Indian Movement days, that helped me pull my self together somewhat.
Homeless? No, just being reckless at one point in my life, thinking I owed no-one anything, nor cared what anyone thought about how I was living. Wearing hand-me down clothes gotten from second-hand stores, and sleeping in salvation army shelter’s, or in abandon cars or houses. Mostly, sleeping and resting in jails, especially during a few winter months.
Why support Cesar Chavez’s Dream? Simple. Worked as a Migrant Farm Worker. Saw the "Labor Violations", saw the living conditions and treatment of the Migrant Farm Worker’s, and today, nothing much has really changed, but some progress has been made, but the "Dream of Cesar Chavez" still is a relevant factor that needs to be dealt with, still a lot of work towards making wrongs, right, because a people, especially children, are still being mistreated, still being ripped-off for their human rights and fundamental freedoms.
The Chicano Movement, Brown Berets, United Farm Worker’s Union, all played a major role in promoting a lot of issues towards addressing the Labor Violations, but like the American Indian Movement(Red Power), and The Black-African Movement(Black Panther’s), were targeted by the F.B.I., and Corporate America, as "Hostile", Anti-American, or Terrorist Organizations, but it was people such as Cesar Chavez, who maintain a lot of dignity, respect and concern about the well being of the people, that made progress develop in the long run, and although, not a lot of issues, demands or human respects were met or taken care of, today, one can view that some of Cesar Chavez’s Dream made things happen.
Now, I pursue an avenue to help keep Cesar Chavez’s Dream alive, and to help promote awareness towards any and all Human Right and Fundamental Freedoms that are violated of a people only trying to achieve the American Dream. So browse around, view some history and works of Cesar Chavez, and history of Mexico and other area’s. Sit back, have some fun and learn some educational respects. Thank you. It is estimated that at the time of first European contact, North and South America was inhabited by more than 90 million people: about 10 million in America north of present-day Mexico; 30 million in Mexico; 11 million in Central America; 445,000 in the Caribbean islands; 30 million in the South American Andean region; and 9 million in the remainder of South America. These population figures are a rough estimate; exact figures are impossible to ascertain. When colonists began keeping records, the Native American populations had been drastically reduced by beatings, torture, murder, war, famine, forced labor, and epidemics of diseases introduced through contact with Europeans. This site has been created for a number of reasons, however, my main intent is to direct attention to helping keep alive the "Dream of Ceaser Chavez", and to also bring awareness to the History of Mexico. Over a 11 million Indians were killed through the occupation of Mexico, mainly by the Spainards. The history that has been compiled often relates to what took place and how these Indians people suffered a near extermination policy. Along with historical web addresses, you find web sites that I have found to be established of helping the Hispanic communities and or do provide assistance of some kind, for some reason. For example, a Look at Tejana Activists, 1900-1998 Yolanda Chávez Leyva September 16, 1998 presented at UT San Antonio Hispanic Heritage Month. As well, I have included some web sites of various musicians, actor's and other Hispanic/Latino people, so sit back read and have some fun as well. The Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious or Linguistic Minorities was Adopted by General Assembly resolution 47/135 of December 18, 1992. Reaffirms that one of the fundamental objectives of the United Nations, as declared in the Charter, is to promote and encourage respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion. Long before the foreign rule of these lands, the ancestors of today’s Native American Indian embraced their culture and traditions willingly. The majority of their cultural activity revolved around their daily lives, that embraced authentic customs and beliefs. Article 1, Sec. 1 of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious or Linguistic Minorities declares in part that governments shall protect the existence and the national or ethnic, cultural, religious and linguistic identity of minorities within their respective territories and shall encourage conditions for the promotion of that identity. Therefore, I would proclaim that the non-Christian ancient customs and traditional beliefs of the Native American Indian, shall be an acknowledged factor throughout Indian country, by city, county, state, tribal and federal governments. Article 2, Sec. 1 of the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious or Linguistic Minorities expresses in part that persons belonging to a national or ethnic, religious and linguistic minorities, have the right to enjoy their own culture, to profess and practice their own religion, and to use their own language, in private and in public, freely and without interference or any form of discrimination. As a free people, Americans have a freedom of religion that cannot be contested, however, the ancient customs and beliefs of the Native American Indian that were in place long before the arrival of the non-Indians(whites, blacks, Asians, Spaniards, etc.), have for 500 plus years, interfered with and been highly discriminated against, by the United States Government, and by a non-cultural society. Today, the Anti-Indian Movement, New Age, Wanna Be’s, and Instant Indians install spoils of propaganda that uniquely interferes and discriminates against the ancient custom and beliefs of the Native American Indian. Bear in mind, everyone’s religious belief is a value that should be honored and respected, and we all should realize that as a free people, there should be no crusade championed to declare one religion as superior over another, nor should attempts of revelation made to force religious beliefs on another, for that does generate religious interference and discrimination. American labor leader. Cesar Chavez was born near Yuma, Arizona, and grew up in migrant labor camps. From 1952 until 1962 he worked for the Community Service Organization, a self-help group. Then he began working to create a farm workers union. The union was chartered in 1966 by the American Federation of Labor and Congress on Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) as the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, with Chavez as its president. Cesar Chavez died on April 23, 1993.
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Main Entry: Mex·i·can
> Pronunciation: 'mek-si-k&n
> Function: noun
> Date: 1604
> 1 a : a native or inhabitant of Mexico
> b : a person of Mexican descent
> c : a person of mixed Spanish and Indian descent
> 2 : NAHUATL
> - Mexican adjective
>
> Mexican/Indian blood-Line = Indian/Spanish
>
> Spaniard/Spanish = Descendants of the country Spain.
> Have no traces of Native/Indian blood.
>
The Spaniards of Spain were responsible for the deaths of millions of
Native American Indians both on the Southeastern Coast-line and the
Western Coast-line. (Florida/Mexico/California)
The Spaniards were responsible for Acts of Slavery of both Indian
Women and Children. Criminal Acts such as Molestation and Rape
were inflicted upon Indian people by the Spaniards, hence, the
Mixed Blood of Spanish and Indian = Mexican.
History
Mexico was the region of the New World where many civilizations
developed, including the Olmec, Maya, Toltec, Mixtec, Zapotec, and
the Aztec, who settled on the central plateau and whose last king,
Montezuma II, was killed 1520 during the Spanish conquest.
The indigenous population was reduced from 21 million in 1519
to 1 million by 1607, with many deaths from Old World diseases
to which they had no resistance.
In 1535 Mexico became the viceroyalty of New Spain. Spanish
culture and Catholicism were established, and the country's
natural resources were exploited. Colonial rule became increasingly
oppressive; the struggle for independence began 1810, and Spanish
rule was ended 1821. The Mexican Empire followed 1822-23.
Mixed blood prior to the 19thCentury was a common factor only in
the Country of Mexico, basically due to such Criminal Acts of forced
rape, child molestation of women, children and elderly people.
The Spanish conquest of the Aztecs in 1521, led by Hernando Cortes,
was a landmark victory for the European settlers. Following the Spanish arrival in Mexico,
a huge battle erupted between the army of Cortes and the Aztec people under the rule of Montezuma.
The events that occurred were crucial to the development of the American lands and have been
the subject of much historical debate in present years.
A major element of Aztec life was religion. A polytheistic people,
they often practiced human sacrifice to please their gods. According to legend,
the god Quetzalcoatl, characterized by light skin, red hair, and light eyes,
was supposed to return to earth. This appearance is remarkably similar to European appearance,
and may be why the Aztecs originally greeted the Spaniards with food, gold, and women.
The Spaniards, however, approached the Aztecs with an entirely different attitude.
They had a strong sense of supremacy and intended to convert the natives to Christianity.
But their ministering methods were radical. The Spaniards gathered the natives together and
shouted the essentials of the Gospel, oblivious to the fact that the Aztecs did not understand their language.
If the natives refused to fall to their knees and repent,
the Spaniards assumed they were rejecting the word of God and killed or enslaved them.
Throughout the warfare, the Spaniards were aided by the gruesome advantage of disease,
for they carried many European ailments that the Aztecs had no immunity to.
It is estimated that three-quarters of the native population died of violence or diseases
like small pox and measles--in just the first century of the conquest. Finally,
the Aztec capital fell on August 13, 1521. After capturing Tenochititlan,
the Spaniards destroyed the city, and built Mexico City on top of it. Just as Tenochititlan was destroyed,
most of the Aztec civilization was destroyed with the European Conquest.
For the Spaniards were quite harsh in their methods and motives,
and many people argue that it was not their place at all to encounter new lands and demand control,
much less force submission so cruelly.
Moreover, virtually all of Aztec culture was carelessly destroyed in the conquest.
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