Dr. Billy Bergin - Paniolo Cowboy

The Paniolo Preservation Society of Hawaii assisted the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in the creation of a new exhibit on the Hawaiian cowboy - the Paniolo. The exhibit is housed within the American Cowboy Gallery, with completion scheduled for summer 2012.
Don Reeves discusses the heritage of the paniolo with Dr. Billy Bergin, Museum Associate Board Member and past president of the Paniolo Preservation Society.
Produced by the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.
nationalcowboymuseum.org
In association with markwelch.tv
Music: Oak and Ash by Gavin Courtie & Liz Radford, Notepad Music Ltd.
Courtesy of Shockwave-Sound.com

[@Californiansurfer]

Respect thanks you for mentioning Mexicano and spanish history. Thank you.. Downey California. Gene artery museum in los angels. I remember in elementary school seeing that the first cowboys were Mexicano .. thank you …

[@mrkneel5760]

Aloha and Mahalo from the Big Island of Hawai’i!

[@eliorocha10]

Those cowboys 1:28 were Mexican vaqueros. 1832 that was Mexican California. This pacific vaqueros were a little different than the one originated in Chihuahua that spread to AR and TX.

[@pincheguey1325]

They thought they hired Spaniards(that's hay they called Paniolos) but they were from Michoacan and Jalisco.

[@rubengonzalez750]

my family has been in California for a long time....Californio's is what we were called when it belonged to Mexico....Hawaiian Paniolos are our brothers Mexican heritage.

[@goodaimshield1115]

@@pincheguey1325 Probably many people at the time considered themselves Spanish rather than Mexicans, since that was only the Kingdom of Mexico, and Mexico as a country was a recent cration and most people didn't even want independence from Spain, and even today those in the USA who were not tought Mexican nationalism in school and descend from Spanish and New Spanish settlers of the USA do not considered themselves descendants of Mexicans, but descendants of Spaniards and New Spaniards, so even if these cowboys were from the actual country of Mexico, most probably the ones that got there identified themselves as Spaniards, hence the name Paniolos. Plus, Hawaiians had already been introduced to Spanish agriculture and cattle raising in 1819 by Francisco de Paula Marín, a Spaniard born in Jerez de la Frontera, in Seville, who was a very influential and prominent character in Hawai at the time.

[@pincheguey1325]

@@goodaimshield1115 Not according to Jeff Long in his historic book "Duel of eagles" and "Three roads to Alamo" by William Davis. Even though Spaniard were in the country long before the 1800s. Mexicans always have been considered "Mexicans" Even the new comers to Texas from Tennessee, Kansas or any part of the US back in the 1820's use words only Mexicans do, like "chingar". Sure the Mexican territory was called once "New Spain", but not in the minds of it's people. We are very proud and nationalistic group of people. Maybe if our mothers were Spaniards, but 99 % of the mixes didn't involved a Spaniard female. So we learned our culture from our mothers, not our fathers.

[@pincheguey1325]

@@goodaimshield1115 Paniolos: From Michoacan and Jalisco. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaq7eGBuas-ZbNk

[@debbieg677]

It's so good to see Dr. Bergin! I grew up knowing him and his family. Wonderful people, all of them!

[@patrickchingartist]

Mahalo Dr. Bergin

[@michaelthomas366]

Very interesting.

[@Bpisecurity]

The story was Tutu Ikua and his boys were given unbroken ilio and they had to break them before the competition.

[@esceleto1619]

It’s not Spanish. Its Mexican Cowboys.

[@jaypay8954]

They said Mexican Spanish LOL

[@esceleto1619]

Mexicans are the top grade Vaqueros, Charros and cowboys, Buckaroo.

[@donovanscott6861]

California vaceros... MEXICAN. not Spanish, Not California... MEXICAN. HAOLE ALWAYS TWEAKING HISTORY

[@kennethmatthew9638]

Heehaw aloha ika Hawaiian cowboy