Life in Mexico
For Frances Erskine Inglis, emigrating to Boston from her native Scotland in the autumn of 1831 was the beginning of an adventure she would never have imagined. Fanny ,as she had always been called, arrived in America with her widowed mother and her sisters to open a school for girls. Within seven y....
Manifest Destiny
Westward Expansion
In the mid-19th century, the West drew increasing numbers of American settlers despite the hardships of the journey and the difficult living conditions that waited them at their journeys end. Thus Americans were immediately sized on the phrase Manifest Destiny- believin....
Mexican Indians
The Mexican Indian population is near extinction in Baja California. Of the original tribes in Baja California, only the Paipai and the Kumeyaay still exist. The population of the Paipai and the Kumeyaay number about 700. They struggle to survive in communities such as San Jose de la Zorra, Santa Ca....
you bring out the mexican in me
The Love of Her Country and Traditions
Do you believe in traditions? Do you follow them? I think it is good to have them because these things distinguish each specific ethnicity/nationality of people from others. The Mexican people have their own traditions and important things or events that happ....