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A New History of Old Texas

Brandon Seale

121 episodes

2 months ago

Post-script to Brandon Seale's podcast "A New History of Old San Antonio." This is the audio from my October 2024 SA PechaKucha talk, the video of which you can find on YouTube as well. As a summary of my thoughts after thinking deeply about San Antonio and early Texas history for the last decade, I'm pretty happy with it. But I'll admit that it's a little incomplete. BTW, the punchline (which you can't see in the audio version) is the picture of the Alamo that I throw on the screen at the ...

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Post-script to Brandon Seale's podcast "A New History of Old San Antonio." This is the audio from my October 2024 SA PechaKucha talk, the video of which you can find on YouTube as well. As a summary of my thoughts after thinking deeply about San Antonio and early Texas history for the last decade, I'm pretty happy with it. But I'll admit that it's a little incomplete. BTW, the punchline (which you can't see in the audio version) is the picture of the Alamo that I throw on the screen at the ...

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A New History of Old Texas

Triumph and Tragedy, Tolerance and Toughness

Post-script to Brandon Seale's podcast "A New History of Old San Antonio." This is the audio from my October 2024 SA PechaKucha talk, the video of which you can find on YouTube as well. As a summary of my thoughts after thinking deeply about San Antonio and early Texas history for the last decade, I'm pretty happy with it. But I'll admit that it's a little incomplete. BTW, the punchline (which you can't see in the audio version) is the picture of the Alamo that I throw on the screen at the ...

1 year ago

7 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

The Battlefield(s) of Medina?

We found another site. But so did someone else. And there's a rumored fourth site out there as well now? What in the name of Miguel Menchaca's ghost is going on? Image: Martin Gonzalez, Atascosa County Historical Commission. Photo by Jessica Phelps, , SA Express-News, April 29, 2024. www.BrandonSeale.com

1 year ago

13 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

Episode 8 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Lipan Apaches. Pressed on all sides by European and native rivals, the Lipanes never should have survived into the nineteenth century. Yet not only had they survived, they had done so with their numbers and their range undiminished. They were wealthier than ever, and more powerful too, and would play a vital role in driving the Spanish out of Texas for good. Selected Bibliography Alonso, Gorka. Apachería. Anderson, Gary Clayton. The Indian Southwe...

1 year ago

24 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

Fidelity to the Texian

Episode 10 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Lipan Apaches. No Native Texan captured Anglo-Texians’ hearts like Lipan Captain Flacco the Younger. His exploits as a Texas Ranger and his people’s defense of Texas’ borders against Mexico make him the darling of Texas newspapers. Texas newspapers fail to distinguish, however, between hostile native Texans and Lipanes living in their midst. And Lipan wealth becomes an irresistible target of Texian raiding and retaliation. Painting of Flacco the...

1 year ago

25 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

Unshared Sovereignty

Episode 9 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Lipan Apaches. In the turmoil of the War for Mexican independence, Lipan Captain Cuelgas de Castro emerges as a beacon of stability in Texas. Perhaps no one saw the Texas geopolitical checkerboard better at this moment. Captain Cuelgas de Castro wins for his people recognition by the new Emperor of Mexico. But it won't be enough to secure true sovereignty for his people. Selected Bibliography Alonso, Gorka. Apachería. Anderson, Gary Clayton. The I...

1 year ago

25 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

Episode 3 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Lipan Apaches. Thanks to the horse, Plains Apaches expand their influence over an increasingly broad swath of the Great Plains and Northern Mexico. In the course of one remarkable generation, they drive the Spanish out of New Mexico and absorb their old Jumano rivals, despite an epic last-ditch effort by Jumano Captain Juan Sabeata to frustrate them. Selected Bibliography Alonso, Gorka. Apachería. Anderson, Gary Clayton. The Indian Southwest, 1580...

1 year ago

23 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

Episode 4 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Lipan Apaches. A new Spanish outpost on the San Antonio River represents an opportunity and a threat to the Apaches' Texas plains trade. The great empires test each other with equal turns generosity and violence. And a new rival appears on the Texas Plains. Selected Bibliography Alonso, Gorka. Apachería. Anderson, Gary Clayton. The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention (1999). Anderson, Gary Clayton. The Conquest of Texas (2019...

1 year ago

21 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

Episode 14 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Lipan Apaches. Contrary to popular usage, an “Apocalypse” isn't an ending. In Greek it means an “unveiling," an "uncovering," a “revelation.” But what have we really revealed about the most powerful, most unconquerable, most exceptional people in Texas history? Selected Bibliography Alonso, Gorka. Apachería. Anderson, Gary Clayton. The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention (1999). Anderson, Gary Clayton. The Conquest of Texas ...

1 year ago

23 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

Alliance and Advantage

Episode 2 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Lipan Apaches. Proto-Apaches, Jumanos, and Puebloans vie for control of the Texas Plains in the face of Spanish entradas, epidemics, and slaving expeditions. Selected Bibliography Alonso, Gorka. Apachería. Anderson, Gary Clayton. The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention (1999). Anderson, Gary Clayton. The Conquest of Texas (2019). Baddour, Dylan. “Labeled ‘Hispanic,’” Texas Observer, May/June 2022, July 6, 2022. Britten, Thoma...

1 year ago

16 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

Episode 6 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Lipan Apaches. In the course of a single generation, Spanish policy toward Lipan Apaches shifts from alliance to extermination. But a generation of alliance-making by Lipan Captain Bigotes makes the Lipan alliance more powerful than ever. They beat back the Comanches to the Red River and the Spanish to a line of presidios that still cuts across the North American continent like a scar as the US-Mexico border. Selected Bibliography Alonso, Go...

1 year ago

31 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

El día de los gritos

Episode 12 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Lipan Apaches. All pretense of accommodation with Native Americans disappears in the 1870’s. Lipanes are pursued equally and openly by American and Mexican forces on both sides of the border. One-by-one, they see their old native rivals picked off and carted off to reservations. But the Lipan Apaches refuse to play the doomed savage. After a brutal massacre by US Army troops at their sacred El Remolino site, they declare “war with the whole world....

1 year ago

35 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

Grass Will Not Grow on the Path between Us

Episode 11 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Lipan Apaches. The Lipan Apaches become proxies for a Texian guerilla war against northern Mexico, until Texian policies cut them off from their lands and their livelihoods. Ever adaptable, the Lipanes flip the script, relocating to their old haunts in Mexico and raiding Texas property. The Texas-Mexico border itself – and the freedom it offers – becomes an artifact of enduring Lipan resistance during these years. The annexation of Texas, however,...

1 year ago

22 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

Indios Bárbaros

Episode 7 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Lipan Apaches. Spanish army officers prove reluctant to change their mindset, however, even as the Lipan alliance under the great Captain Picax-Andé brings to a definitive halt the advance of Spanish conquest. Selected Bibliography Alonso, Gorka. Apachería. Anderson, Gary Clayton. The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinvention (1999). Anderson, Gary Clayton. The Conquest of Texas (2019). Baddour, Dylan. “Labeled ‘Hispanic,’” Texas O...

1 year ago

21 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

Lipanes at Last

Episode 5 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Lipan Apaches. Following the great peace of 1749, San Antonio becomes the great outlet for native North American trade and for the mediation of Native Texas culture into Spanish society. In turn, Texas Apaches commit to a symbiotic existence with the settler communities around them, and come to take on a distinct identity as “Lipan” Apaches – the "People of the In-Between." Selected Bibliography Alonso, Gorka. Apachería. Anderson, Gary Clayton. Th...

1 year ago

30 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

Episode 13 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Lipan Apaches. The United States dispenses with the pretense of Native American sovereignty and adopts a policy of forced assimilation. Mexico waxes poetic about the “cosmic race” while sending airplanes to track down "Apaches broncos” living free in the mountains. The Lipan Apaches avoid the reservation by dispersing and using the reservation system to project their power and spread their religious ceremonies to the native communities of Texas, L...

1 year ago

23 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

Episode 1 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Lipan Apaches. Killer-of-Enemies teaches the proto-Apaches, the “Nde,” how to treat with the peoples they meet as they descend into the Texas panhandle: the Puebloans to the west, the Jumanos to the South, and the Caddoan-speakers to the east. Yet the arrival of yet another newcomer – this one from across the ocean – challenges the diplomatic skills of even the most effective Nde alliance-makers. Selected Bibliography Alonso, Gorka. Apachería. And...

1 year ago

18 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

The Last Lipanes

Intro to Brandon Seale's podcast on the Lipan Apaches. Despite centuries of conflict with Spanish, Mexican, Texan, United States, and native rivals, the Lipan Apaches managed to do what perhaps no other native community in the United States has been able to: carve for themselves a place in their ancestral homeland without surrendering it. Join us this season on “Lipan Apocalypse” as we pull back the veil on the Lipanes in our midst and their outsized legacy on modern Texas. www.Brand...

1 year ago

7 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

The Conscience of a Republic

Episode 6 of Brandon Seale's podcast (in collaboration with Art Martínez de Vara) on the life and times of José Francisco Ruíz. José Francisco Ruíz's reputation and personal relationships went a long way toward preserving Tejanos' status in the newly independent Republic of Texas. They weren't enough, however, to ensure true equality. That was a fight that his nephew, his great-great-grandson, and many other Tejanos would have to carry on. Yet Ruíz's life stands as perhaps the best and fulle...

1 year ago

16 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

The Die is Cast

Episode 5 of Brandon Seale's podcast (in collaboration with Art Martínez de Vara) on the life and times of José Francisco Ruíz. For the fourth time in his life, José Francisco Ruíz had to decide where his loyalties lie: to his flag or to his ideology. In 1835, however, there would be no hesitation. Too old now to carry a rifle, Ruíz became a sort of "first quartermaster" of the 1835-36 Texas Revolution, in addition to one of only two Texas-born signers of this second Texas declaration of Ind...

1 year ago

15 minutes

A New History of Old Texas

Immigrants and Indians

Episode 4 of Brandon Seale's podcast (in collaboration with Art Martínez de Vara) on the life and times of José Francisco Ruíz. 1820's East Texas was a melting pot of native Texans, old time Tejanos, Indian immigrants pushed out of the United States, and newcomer Anglos. For all their distaste of José Francisco Ruíz's revolutionary past, the old Mexican officer corps had no choice but to turn to him once again to manage the chaos. It would leave Ruíz more disillusioned than ever with the pro...

1 year ago

9 minutes