Redding author Ann L. Sittig and her co-author Martha Florinda Gonzalez focus on the experiences of Central American indigenous immigrants who work in Nebraska in their book, The Mayans Among Us: Migrant Women and Meatpacking on the Great Plains . Award-winning author Karen Halvorsen Schreck set her novel Broken Ground in the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Her main character Ruth sees the forced mass deportation of people of Mexican heritage, including US citizens, during the repatriation campaign