Mennonites in Texas

Mennonites in Texas
Author: Laura L. Camden
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2006-09-22
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9781585444977

With their distinctive head coverings, plain dress, and quiet, unassuming demeanor, the Mennonites are a distinctive presence within the often flamboyant and proud people of Texas. If you have seen them at a gas station, in a grocery store, or even at the Dallas–Fort Worth airport, you have probably taken note and wondered how they came to be there. In this photographic tour of two Texas Mennonite communities, separated by almost 450 miles, Laura L. Camden and Susan Gaetz Duarte introduce you to the Beachy Amish Mennonites of Lott, a small community of approximately 160 people in Central Texas, and the very different Mennonites of Seminole, a West Texas farming community of more than five thousand residents and five separate congregations, several of which still speak the Mennonite Low German. Spending more than a year getting to know the families, participating in day-to-day activities, and photographing the unique culture of the communities, Camden and Gaetz Duarte developed deep insight into not just the religious beliefs but the family relationships, role expectations, and daily routines of these people. Through their camera lenses, they offer others a touchingly intimate view of a unique lifestyle seldom experienced by outsiders. In a foreword, former governor Ann Richards identifies the book as part of both the long photographic tradition in Texas and the tradition of cultural and religious diversity in the state. Mark L. Louden’s introduction provides the historical backgrounds of Mennonites in Europe, their core beliefs, and their development into branches in North America. Dennis Carlyle Darling offers insightful comments on the photography that allows an intimate, respectful view of the people, their lifestyle, and their culture.

Seminole: Some People Never Give Up

Seminole: Some People Never Give Up
Author: Tina Siemens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2019-10-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781087813301

Two worlds collide as the Mennonites migrate from Canada to Mexico, and on to Texas while the U.S. Cavalry work to make the land safe for settlers. Tina Siemens tells the sweeping saga of an event that captivated the world: the story of immigration laws meeting religious beliefs. Something had to give. Seminole. Some People Never Give Up.

Seminole

Seminole
Author: Tina Siemens
Publisher:
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2020-02-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781087865652

Two worlds collide as the Mennonites migrate from Canada to Mexico, and on to Texas while the U.S. Cavalry work to make the land safe for settlers. Tina Siemens tells the sweeping saga of an event that captivated the world's attention: where immigration laws meet religious beliefs. Something had to give. Could Congress come together?

HOUSE REPORTS

HOUSE REPORTS
Author: United States. congress (96TH: 2nd session)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 3
Release: 1980
Genre:
ISBN:

Newsweek

Newsweek
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 738
Release: 1982
Genre: Current events
ISBN:

Landscape of Migration

Landscape of Migration
Author: Ben Nobbs-Thiessen
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2020-03-19
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1469656116

In the wake of a 1952 revolution, leaders of Bolivia's National Revolutionary Movement (MNR) embarked on a program of internal colonization known as the "March to the East." In an impoverished country dependent on highland mining, the MNR sought to convert the nation's vast "undeveloped" Amazonian frontier into farmland, hoping to achieve food security, territorial integrity, and demographic balance. To do so, they encouraged hundreds of thousands of Indigenous Bolivians to relocate from the "overcrowded" Andes to the tropical lowlands, but also welcomed surprising transnational migrant streams, including horse-and-buggy Mennonites from Mexico and displaced Okinawans from across the Pacific. Ben Nobbs-Thiessen details the multifaceted results of these migrations on the environment of the South American interior. As he reveals, one of the "migrants" with the greatest impact was the soybean, which Bolivia embraced as a profitable cash crop while eschewing earlier goals of food security, creating a new model for extractive export agriculture. Half a century of colonization would transform the small regional capital of Santa Cruz de la Sierra into Bolivia's largest city, and the diverging stories of Andean, Mennonite, and Okinawan migrants complicate our understandings of tradition, modernity, foreignness, and belonging in the heart of a rising agro-industrial empire.