By Sophia Dembling Saving Places Adina De Zavala’s indignation over a 1912 San Antonio Express editorial explodes from every typewritten word: “The painful ignorance of the history of Texas, and of the Alamo, exhibited by the writers of…
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Indigenous Americans say Texas Land Commissioner Patterson crossed sacred line in opening up the Alamo to gun-carrying activists
Oct 21, 2013, 12:12 PM 0
By Lance Aaron La Prensa de San Antonio Indigenous American leader Fidel Castillo, a lineal descendent of a Yaqui Indian Chief and spiritual leader of the Indigenous People of the Red Root says, “Texas General Land Commissioner Mr. Jerry…
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New documentary traces the role of missions in Texas in ‘Texas Before the Alamo’
May 31, 2013, 12:00 AM 0
LatinaLista — In 2012, the Obama administration nominated San Antonio’s The Alamo and four other Franciscan missions as a United Nations World Heritage Site. The Alamo, where a famous battle was fought between Texan irregulars and the Mexican Army…
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López: Celebrating 200th Anniversary of First Texas Constitution
Apr 26, 2013, 10:50 AM 0
By José Antonio López Rio Grande Guardian SAN ANTONIO – In a previous Guardian article, I wrote about the significance of the month of April in early Texas history. Very briefly, on April 1-2, 1813, Colonel José Bernardo Gutiérrez…
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Guest Voz: Most U.S. citizens suffer from a severely low Southwest history IQ
Jul 6, 2012, 12:00 AM 2
By José Antonio López LatinaLista After reading an article I wrote recently entitled “The Tejano/Tejana Bucket List”, many readers wonder why they had never heard of the people, places, and events I mentioned. As a result, some have already…
