Download or read book The Squatter and the Don written by MarÕa Amparo Ruiz de Burton and published by Arte Publico Press. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Squatter and the Don, originally published in San Francisco in 1885, is the first fictional narrative written and published in English from the perspective of the conquered Mexican population that, despite being granted the full rights of citizenship under the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848, was, by 1860, a subordinated and marginalized national minority.