This Sunday, on November 14, celebrate California Heritage Day, a significant event in the history of California, the signing of the 1849 California Constitution, the only bilingual Constitution in the country. The event will take place at Santa Ana’s Heritage Museum of Orange County, from 10 am to 4 pm.
This event commemorates the coming together of all the people who built the great State of California and celebrates the cultural diversity in Orange County and the State of California.
At this exciting event you will experience historic characters who lived in California during that period of history. Hear historical information about the original signers of the Constitution. Experience the culture as it existed at that time. Meet living descendents of the original settlers of Orange County.
There will be food, music, dance, storytellers, re-enactors. Hear old Spanish songs of the time. Talk to Fr. Serra about the DeAnza Expedition into Alta California. Meet the wife of Jose Antonio Yorba and daughter of Don Juan Pablo Grijalva, Maria Josefa Grijalva Yorba. Talk to members of the Native American Tribes. These historical characters and more will share with you the history of the time.
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That is just splendid Pedroza!
The entire world turn against the Obama at G20 last week http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/11/12/g-refuses-push-chinas-currency/ and you are concerned about the stupid Mexican history.
You should mobilize people’s awareness about what they will eat 6 mo from now or you should quit the blogging.
let’s show that Cal was purchased, not stolen and end that ol crap from always coming up. whitey did a good job developing Calif. lets show that
My “favorite” parts of the California Constitution of 1849 are:
The fact that indigenous peoples and African-Americans were excluded from the convention which then made things like this possible:
Article II Section I – which limited suffrage rights to white males only
and
Article IV Sec 29 – which held that representation in the State Senate and Assembly would be predicated upon the counting of ‘white inhabitants’ only…
http://www.sos.ca.gov/archives/collections/1849/full-text.htm
The effects of which allowed for racist and apartheid-like governance to prevail in the state. This all came after a war of aggression and conquest predicated on lies and greed.
What are we celebrating again?