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Uniting cultures with stories
Full text linkUniting cultures with stories -- Crystal City -- Love, integrity, and the military
ID200 Oral History
Full text link3rd generation woman of Swedish descent. Grew up in Illinois, and moved to St. James when she married her husband from St. James. Worked as an art teacher in St. James, on the farm with her husband, and as a homemaker raising her childrenhttps://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/unitingcultures/1029/thumbnail.jp
ID100 Oral History
Full text linkFemale born in early 1940s. Completed 2nd grade. Is the third of 8 siblings. Lived in the US for 39 years at the time of the interview. Her daughter came first and lived in Texas, then sent her money to come by train through Mexico. Regularized her US status in 1986. Worked in the US for 25 years in Texas and Minnesota. Came to St. James in 1989.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/unitingcultures/1000/thumbnail.jp
ID112 Oral History
Full text linkSalvadoran man born in the early 60s and came to California in the 1990s. Got a college education and was a teacher and entrepreneur in El Salvador. Work in clothing design and printing in California and bought a house. Pushed by economic precarity around 2008 to move to St. James where he already had family members and a real estate investment. One of his children was in college in Mankato at the time of the interview.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/unitingcultures/1012/thumbnail.jp
ID117 Oral History
Full text linkWoman born in the late 1970s in El Salvador. She was the oldest and only female of five children. She came to the U.S. by herself with the help of a family friend in order to support family back in El Salvador. Since she’s arrived in St. James, she’s worked in town and continues to do so at the time of the interview.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/unitingcultures/1016/thumbnail.jp
ID122 Oral History
Full text linkWoman born in the mid 80’s from Mexico. She is the youngest of her three siblings. She, her husband, and her two children came to St. James because her friends and family were here. They now have one more daughter, who was born in the U.S. She mentioned how she has felt discriminated against at her job and talks to her children about what to do if one of them is ever deported from the U.S.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/unitingcultures/1021/thumbnail.jp
ID103 Oral History
Full text linkFemale born in the mid 30s. She was born in Laredo, Texas. Her family would go back and forth between Minnesota and Texas for jobs, until they decided to stay in St. James because her daughter lives there. She still lives in Saint James with daughters and grandchildren.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/unitingcultures/1003/thumbnail.jp
ID140 Oral History
Full text linkWoman born in the late 50s in Honduras. Talks about how difficult it is to find work and be able to provide for her family in Honduras. She has no family in the area, but a couple nieces and nephews in other states in the U.S.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/unitingcultures/1051/thumbnail.jp
ID131 Oral History
Full text linkWoman born in the early 90s. She is from Texas, engaged in elder care for a relative in Mexico, completed CNA training, and then came to Minnesota to find work. Her mother’s sister already lived in St. James. Interviewee came here about 9 years ago.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/unitingcultures/1045/thumbnail.jp
ID133 Oral History
Full text linkMan from Mexico born in the early 60s. He describes the differences in the economic statuses of the different cities where he lived in Mexico. An agricultural engineer by training, he describes positive experiences in his job working with porcine breeding. He has positive experiences to share about life in the Upper Midwest for him and his family.https://digitalcommons.morris.umn.edu/unitingcultures/1047/thumbnail.jp
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