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A community newspaper serving Browerville, MN and surrounding areas. USPS 067-560
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Volume 98; Number 41
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Ethnic Groups in Minnesota: What our ancestors faced
and what current immigrants confront
Part III: The Mexicans
A good day for the annual Mens Ham Dinner
By Rin Porter
In this story, we continue our
series on Minnesotas ethnic
groups of immigrants, and what
each group faced as people left
their home places and came to the
U.S. The migrations began in the
1600s and continue today.
BACKGROUND
From fewer than 6,100 people in
1850, Minnesota's population grew
to over 1.75 million by 1900. Each
of the next six decades saw a 15%
rise in population, reaching 3.41
million in 1960. Growth then
slowed, rising to 3.8 million in
1970, and to 4.91 million in the
2000 census. As of July 1, 2009, the
state's population was estimated
at 5,266,214 by the U.S. Census
Bureau <http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/U.S._Census_Bureau> .
The Constitution placed no
restrictions on immigration. In
fact, the new country needed more
people to work - clearing land for
farms, building roads, cutting lum-
ber, and growing food.
Millions of people emigrated from
Europe between 1776 and 1890.
The first U.S. law limiting
immigration was the Page Act of
1875. It prohibited immigrants
who were considered undesirable
from entering the U.S. The law
classified as "undesirable" any
individual from Asia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia
> who was coming to America to
be a forced laborer
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unfr
ee_labour>, any Asian woman who
would engage in prostitution
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prost
itution>, and all people considered
to be convicts
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conv
ict> in their own country
(Wikipedia).
Additional laws passed in 1906,
1907, 1917, 1918, 1921, and 1924
established more restrictions on
immigration: making some knowl-
edge of English a requirement for
citizenship, further restricting
immigration from Asia and includ-
ing a reading test, restricting the
immigration from a given country
to 3% of the number of people from
that country living in the U.S. in
1910, and freezing the 1924 ethnic
distribution in response to rising
immigration from Southern and
Eastern Europe, as well as Asia,
and introducing quotas.
In the first article in this series
on immigration, we examined the
German-speaking people who
formed the largest group to come to
America and to come to Minnesota.
In the second article, we consid-
ered the Polish people who came
from an area close by the German-
speaking areas, and sometimes
overlapping them in Central
Europe.
In this third article, we study
the experiences of Mexicans.
HISTORY OF MEXICO
Before Columbus, the conti-
nents of North and South America
were populated by millions of
native people, who formed thou-
sands of tribes. The tribes lived
throughout the vast area of the
Western Hemisphere, from the tip
of South America to the Arctic
Circle of North America. Some
were hunter-gatherers, some were
agriculturalists, and some were
both. These tribes had complex
religious and social systems, as we
know from archaeological studies
of the ruins of buildings created by
the Maya, Aztec, Toltec, Mixtec,
Olmec, and many other civiliza-
tions that were based in Central
and South America.
Before Columbus, explorers
from areas we now know as
Scandinavia, France, and the
Netherlands had rowed and sailed
boats to Greenland and northern
Canada, trading with the native
people there, but never trying to
It was a cold, blustery Sunday afternoon for the Annual Mens Ham Dinner held at Christ
the King Church on April 13th.
A large number of friends and family members helped Topsy
May celebrate her 80th birthday at the Browerville
Community Center on April 12th.
Easter Church
Services
Christ the King Catholic
Church - Browerville
St. Josephs Catholic Church - Clarissa
St. Josephs Catholic Church - Bertha
Holy Thursday Evening Mass of the Lords Supper,
April 17 7:30 p.m. at Christ the King &Adoration until
10:00 p.m.
Good Friday Celebration of the Lords Passion, April 18
12:00 p.m. at Christ the King, Browerville
3:00 p.m. at St. Josephs, Clarissa
Holy Saturday Easter Vigil, April 19,
8:00 p.m. at Christ the King, Browerville
Easter Sunday Masses, April 20,
7:30 a.m. at Christ the King, Browerville
9:00 a.m. at St. Josephs, Clarissa
11:00 a.m. at St. Josephs, Bertha
Zion Lutheran Church - Browerville
Holy Thursday Service, April 17, 7:00 pm
Good Friday Service, April 18, 1:00 pm
Easter Sunday Services, April 20, 7:00 am & 10:00 am
A breakfast will be served between services
Rose City Evangelical Free Church -
Eagle Bend
16241 County Rd 14 NE
218-943-4241
Good Friday Service with Communion, April 18, 6:30
pm
Easter Sunday Service-Celebrate the Good of God
through the Resurrection Story, April 20, 10:45 am