Bidwell was born in upstate new york in 1819, and his family moved around. They were frontier homesteaders and then they moved from new york into pennsylvania and then ohio. And then in his early 20s bidwell left his family and had about to what was then the front tier in iowa and missouri. He tried developing a claim in westerwestern missouri and gaven that after just a year or two. And decide to head to california, which was then still mexican territory. He helped organize what became known as the bidwell bartleson party, and again, great claim to fame is the first party of overland tours to california. Bidwell like a lot of early american got his first job working for john sutter at sutter scored. And there hes learned firsthand californias rich potential asset Agricultural Producer and as a place to raise livestock. Sutter had herds of cattle and large wheatfields, and bidwell went to work for sutter and kind of got some good onthejob training for what would later become his own op
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Having to explain that all the time as a kid, it was a lot. It just made me feel like it was different because nobody knew about me. Nobody knew what hmong was because there is no hmongland. I felt ashamed of being hmong because i didnt want to have to explain and do a History Lesson every time i told somebody i was hmong. When people would say your name sounds like chinese or hawaiian, i would just go along with that. Yeah, sure, i am. That way i didnt have to do the whole History Lesson. I think that goes to the same with our generation not knowing a lot of our history. And the background. That is something they feel is somewhat of a burden, having to tell somebody every time to the hmong people are. When we know so clearly our parents, my dad, my brothers are americans to fight the vietnam war. How come nobody knows about us . We helped americans. Our uncles and aunts aunts only people died during this war, how come nobody knows about us . Thats when you realize we are truly a secre
Having to explain that all the time as a kid, it was a lot. It just made me feel like it was different because nobody knew about me. Nobody knew what hmong was because there is no hmongland. I felt ashamed of being hmong because i didnt want to have to explain and do a History Lesson every time i told somebody i was hmong. When people would say your name sounds like chinese or hawaiian, i would just go along with that. Yeah, sure, i am. That way i didnt have to do the whole History Lesson. I think that goes to the same with our generation not knowing a lot of our history. And the background. That is something they feel is somewhat of a burden, having to tell somebody every time to the hmong people are. When we know so clearly our parents, my dad, my brothers are americans to fight the vietnam war. How come nobody knows about us . We helped americans. Our uncles and aunts aunts only people died during this war, how come nobody knows about us . Thats when you realize we are truly a secre
To chico, california. You are watching American History tv. All weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. Growing up, it was hard because during the 1980s, as you probably know, historically, a lot of folks did not know about the hmong people. People would ask me what nationality, what race i am. When i would tell them hmong, there would be a blank face. Like what is that . What country are you from . I would tell them thailand. They would say, oh, wait, you are thai. No, not really but close. We are different, too. Having to explain that all the time as a kid, it was a lot. It just made me feel like it was different because nobody knew about me. Nobody knew what hmong was because there is no hmongland. So throughout later on, i think assertive feeling ashamed of being hmong because i didnt want to have to explain and do a History Lesson every time i told somebody i was hmong. When people would say, hey, your name sounds like chinese or hawaiian, i would just go along with that. Yeah, sure, i