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Interview with Santa Mies
Mies, Santa
Mexican Americans -- Minnesota.
Santa Mies was born in 1945 in Chihuahua, Chihuahua, Mexico, and arrived illegally in the United States in 1953. She lived and worked in Texas until 1963, when she contracted to work for the Jennie-O turkey company in Litchfield, Minn. She became a…
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Interview with Leo Castillo
Castillo, Leo
Mexican Americans -- Minnesota.
Leo Castillo was born in Venadito, Texas, on Aug. 19, 1945. He left Texas in May of 1964 to work in Nebraska and Minnesota. He worked in Minnesota and returned to Texas annually until 1968, and in 1969 he became a welder and lived in Litchfield to the…
AV1996_92_11_1_A.mp3

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