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of the major points of my presentations 2 years ago, to try to place this question of the history of the Chicano in the Midwest in some perspective. When I reviewed the literature that was available I found that for many Anglo historians Chicanos were seen as recent arrivals. They were seen as people who have come to Iowa since that was the particular area I was concerned about 2 years ago. But they had come to Iowa recently within the last 10 or 15 years. A variation of that interpretation was that they were all migrants. I still run across many people in the state who tell me that all Chicano in the state must be migrants because they simply were not aware that any of them had lived more than 10 or 15 years in the state. Thirdly on the idea that we were recent arrivals, was the idea that we were all foreigners in the Midwest, that like the other immigrant groups to the Midwest eventually we would assimilate, we would join that melting pot that Ramirez talked about and that we would disappear. However, in looking at the literature that I was able to find some primary documents I found some interesting things, that had not been brought to mind before for example: Chicanos maybe I should go and make one statement before that. Sp-S people lived in Iowa before Anglo Speaking people came to this state. In 18th century Spain owned what is now Iowa. The late 1780's and 1790's I found through looking in some census figures and looking at some primary sources that there were Spaniards actually living in what is Western Iowa. I found one case where Manuel Lisa, a Spaniard, had migrated into Western Iowa and married a Sioux Indian, and bore children

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of the major points of my presentations 2 years ago, to try to place this question of the history of the Chicano in the Midwest in some perspective. When I reviewed the literature that was available I found that for many Anglo historians Chicanos were seen as recent arrivals. They were seen as people who have come to Iowa since that was the particular area I was concerned about 2 years ago. But they had come to Iowa recently within the last 10 or 15 years. A variation of that interpretation was that they were all migrants. I still run across many people in the state who tell me that all Chicano in the state must be migrants because they simply were not aware that any of them had lived more than 10 or 15 years in the state. Thirdly on the idea that we were recent arrivals, was the idea that we were all foreigners in the Midwest, that like the other immigrant groups to the Midwest eventually we would assimilate, we would join that melting pot that Ramirez talked about and that we would disappear. However, in looking at the literature that I was able to find some primary documents I found some interesting things, that had not been brought to mind before for example: Chicanos maybe I should go and make one statement before that. Sp-S people lived in Iowa before Anglo Speaking people came to this state. In 18th century Spain owned what is now Iowa. The late 1780's and 1790's I found through looking in some census figures and looking at some primary sources that there were Spaniards actually living in what is Western Iowa. I found one case where Manuel Lisa, a Spaniard, had migrated into Western Iowa and married a Sioux Indian, and bore children