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San Antonio on Parade: Six Historic Festivals. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-58544-222-5. Bremer, Thomas S. (2004). Blessed with Tourists: The Borderlands of Religion and Tourism in San Antonio. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-5580-5. Chambers, William T. (1940). "San Antonio, Texas". Economic Geography.
The Pastia people (also Pastias, Paxti; Spanish: "chamuscados") [notes 1] were a hunter-gatherer tribe of the Coahuiltecan.The Pastias inhabited the area south of San Antonio, largely between the Medina and San Antonio Rivers and the southward bend of the Nueces River running through modern day La Salle and McMullen counties.
Hispanic and Latino American culture in San Antonio (1 C, 12 P) Pages in category "Ethnic groups in San Antonio" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
Father Antonio Margil received permission from the governor of Coahuila and Texas, the Marquis de San Miguel de Aguayo, to build a new mission 5 miles (8 km) south of San Antonio de Valero. [2] Like San Antonio de Valero, Mission San José served the Coahuiltecan Natives. The first buildings, made of brush, straw, and mud, were quickly replaced ...
The mission was re-established in the same area on July 5, 1716, by the Domingo Ramón-St. Denis expedition. [3] It was named as Nuestro Padre San Francisco de los Tejas. The new mission had to be abandoned in 1719 because of conflict between Spain and France. The mission was tried once more on August 5, 1721, as San Francisco de los Neches.
San Antonio founded by Martín de Alarcón. [1] [2] Mission San Antonio de Valero founded. 1720 – Mission San Jose founded. [3] 1722 – Presidio San Antonio de Bexar built. 1731 – Juan Leal Goraz becomes first mayor. 1750 – Church of San Fernando completed. [2] 1773 – San Antonio de Bexar named capital of Spanish Texas. [4]
He served as the mayor of San Antonio, Texas, from 1981 to 1989 Aurelio Macedonio Espinosa Sr. (1880–1958), Professor who studied the Spanish American folklore and philology. He descended from the first New Mexicans to settle in Colorado in the mid-1800s.
The Spanish Army marched into San Antonio, rounded up everyone it could find from Nacogdoches to El Espiritu de Santo (Goliad), and brought them to San Antonio. The Spanish killed four males a day for 270 days, eradicated the Tejano population, and left the women when they left in 1814. Toledo returned to Spain, a Spanish hero. [14] [15]