A New History of Old Texas

Sep 16 2024 121 ep. 23 mins 410
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Explore the history of early Texas as you’ve never heard it before. The most recent season ("Lipan Apocalypse") unveils the legacy of the Lipan Apaches on modern Texas. Season 6 recounts the outsized impact of José Francisco Ruíz on the state's history. Season 5 traces the roots of Texans' unique psychology - their "Texanity" - to the technological innovations that shaped its people. Season 4 relates the largely unknown story of the Republic of the Rio Grande. Season 3 tells the remarkable tale of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca and his journey across the North American continent. Season 2 covers the Battle of Medina, the largest, bloodiest battle in Texas history...and the narrowing search for the battlefield itself! And Season 1 traces the identity of modern-day Texas to the first 160 years or so of San Antonio's history. -- As seen and heard on Texas Standard, KSAT12, Texas Public Radio, the San Antonio Express-News, the San Antonio Report, the Austin Chronicle, and more! --

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Triumph and Tragedy, Tolerance and Toughness

Sep 16 2024 7 mins  
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 punchl

The Battlefield(s) of Medina?

Jun 06 2024 13 mins  
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

Emergence

Jan 04 2024 23 mins  
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 BibliographyAlonso, Gorka. Apachería.Anderson, Gary Clayton

Bronco Apaches

Jan 04 2024 23 mins  
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

El día de los gritos

Jan 04 2024 35 mins  
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. Af

Grass Will Not Grow on the Path between Us

Jan 04 2024 22 mins  
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 i

Fidelity to the Texian

Jan 04 2024 25 mins  
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 the

Unshared Sovereignty

Jan 04 2024 25 mins  
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

The Unbroken

Jan 04 2024 24 mins  
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

Indios Bárbaros

Jan 04 2024 21 mins  
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 BibliographyAlonso, Gorka. Apachería.Anderson, Gary Clayton. The Indian Southwest, 1580-1830: Ethnogenesis and Reinventio