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Show Utah's Hispanic population can be divided into three groups. The first is made up of those with cultural ties to the Spanish colonial settlements that were established in the Santa Fe área in about 1600, nearly 200 years before the signing of the American Declaration of Independence! These remote and HISPANIC ARTS La población hispana de Utah se puede dividir en tres grupos. El primero comprende los que tienen lazos culturales con las colonias españolas establecidas en el área de Santa Fe cerca del 1600, casi 200 años antes de que se firmara la Declaración de la Independencia de E.E.U.U. Estos poblados remotos y Pictured here with Mariachi Águilas de Utah, Rene Domínguez, Sr. sings ranchera music, a well-known style that often serves as a symbol of Mexican culture because of its popularization by mariachi bands. Mr. Dominguez moved to Utah about thirty years ago from his home in Chihuahua, México. He sings at both prívate parties and community events, sometimes in duet with his son, Rene, Jr. (CE:92) isolated villages, located in the vast Mexican Territory north of the Rio Grande River, only became part of the U.S. in 1848 after many generations of Spanish colonists had lived there and developed their distinctive culture. Fifty years after being annexed by the U.S., broken promises, often related to land ownership and water rights, prompted some farmers and ranchers from villages in New México and Colorado to move into the southeast córner of Utah. During the 1940s many more carne to Utah to take newly created jobs in federal supply depots or to work in the mining, railroading and agriculture industries that had been revitalized by the war-time economy. Salt Lake City, Ogden, Tooele and Price became home for many Hispanic families. The New Mexicans, or Manitos, as they called themselves, aislados que quedaban al norte del Río Grande, siendo parte del territorio mexicano, sólo llegaron a ser parte de Estados Unidos en 1848 después de vivir y desarrollar su cultura por muchas generaciones. Después de ser parte de E.E.U.U. por 50 años y debido a promesas no cumplidas relacionadas con títulos de terrenos y derechos de agua, muchos granjeros y labradores de Nuevo México y Colorado se mudaron al sureste de Utah. En la década de los 40, otros llegaron a Utah a trabajar en empleos recién creados en las estaciones de provisiones federales o en las industrias minera, ferroviaria y agricultural que resurgieron por la economía en el período de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Lago Salado, Ogden y Tooele llegaron a ser el hogar de muchas familias hispanas. Los nuevomexicanos o manitos, como ellos mismos se llamaban, trajeron consigo las |