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Slovenian Ethnic Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Giles Edward Gobetz*
Affiliation:
Kent State University and Director of the Slovenian Research Center of America, Inc.

Extract

Beginnings of the Slovenian ethnic research in America go back to the first known Slovenian settler in the New World, Mark Anton Kapus (1657–1717), a Jesuit of Kamna Gorica, Slovenia, who was active as a missionary and explorer in what is now Mexico and Arizona, in the years between 1687 and 1717. Although writings by Kapus and his co-authors Kono and Mangus deal primarily with their early explorations of relatively unknown territories and Indian peoples, they supplement other preserved records and correspondence in providing a description of the life and work of this first known Slovenian settler in America.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe, 1974 

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