The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Falcons in Flight: The Yugoslavs,” pp. 373–83 by Joseph Stipanovich Oh, rocky Lika,2 your soil is poor and barren, but for every one of your stones you have a gray falcon.3 …Traditional Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes began arriving in Utah in the last decade of the nineteenth century. The …
The Peoples of Utah, Scandinavian Saga
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Scandinavian Saga,” pp. 151–85″ by William Mulder I In the telephone directories, Utah looks decidedly Anglo-Scandinavian. History and the statistics confirm the impression. Utah’s Scandinavians and their descendants, as with most of the state’s other immigrants from northern Europe, are largely the fruit of over a century of Mormon proselyting …
The Peoples of Utah, Japanese Life in Utah
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Japanese Life in Utah,” pp. 333-62 by Helen Z. Papanikolas and Alice Kasai The mists rise over The still pools at Asuka. Memory does not Pass away so easily. …Akahito For centuries the Japanese were content to live isolated in their wooded land of crags, mists, and ample waters, but …
The Peoples of Utah, The Oft-Crossed Border: Canadians in Utah
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “The Oft-Crossed Border: Canadians in Utah,” pp. 279–301 by Maureen Ursenbach and Richard L. Jensen Probably the first significant meeting of two Canadians in what is now Utah took place on the banks of the Weber River, east of present Ogden, on May 23, 1825. There, around mid-morning, Peter Skene …
The Peoples of Utah, Italianita in Utah: The Immigrant Experience
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Italianita in Utah: The Immigrant Experience,” pp. 303–31 by Philip F. Notarianni Many years later I was to realize that, to a child of nine years, emigration to America meant a new birth, to which a certain inevitable continuity with the past had given an added significance. …Angelo M. …
The Peoples of Utah, The Exiled Greeks
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “The Exiled Greeks,” pp. 409–35 by Helen Z. Papanikolas Small bird, there where you fly to Ameriki, Tell me, where does my son sleep? When he is sick, who tends him? …Folk song of immigration At the beginning of the century, thousands of young Greeks began coming to Utah to live …
The Peoples of Utah, Imperial Zion: The British Occupation of Utah
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Imperial Zion: The British Occupation of Utah,” pp. 61–113 by Frederick S. Buchanan On board the “International” All joyful and lighthearted. Bound Zionward, four hundred Saints, From Liverpool we started. We’re English, Irish, Scotch, and Welsh Assembled here together; Resolved to do the will of God, Whate’er the wind and …
The Peoples of Utah, Jews in Zion
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “Jews in Zion,” pp. 187–220 by Jack Goodman Except for the pitifully few American Indians occupying remnant of their once pristine homeland, we are a nation peopled solely by the descendants of immigrants. “Americans all, immigrants all,” Franklin Roosevelt once said. Rather than a melting pot, the United States as …
The Peoples of Utah, After Escalante: The Spanish Speaking People of Utah
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “After Escalante: The Spanish Speaking People of Utah,” pp. 437–68 by Vicente V. Mayer Poor Mexico! So far from God and so near to the United States. ..Attributed to Porfirio Diaz To the Spanish is owed the distinction of being the first Europeans to explore, map, and describe the area …
The Peoples of Utah, The Continental Inheritance
The Peoples of Utah, ed. by Helen Z. Papanikolas, © 1976 “The Continental Inheritance,” pp. 221–50 by Davis Bitton and Gordon Irving [We are] all the descendants of immigrants. That is, in fact, the quality and the experience all of us have in common; the differences are of degree only in that for some of us the experience is immediate and …