Dr. Andres Tijerina - "The Alamo: Ownership and History?"

Save Texas History Symposium presented by The Texas General Land Office. Saturday, September 17, 2016 at the Menger Hotel in San Antonio. www.savetexashistory.org

[@stevenperez9043]

Dr Tijerina was my Texas History Professor and Tonight, skip Netflix or movies on demand. My Tejano Brothers & Sisters of American, Mexican, Anglo, Indian, Spaniard lineages: This man was my professor and he left a great impression in my education that to this day, has a profound way in which I look at history and life. In this, he will teach you who a Tejano is and at the end of this, you’ll learn some things you may not have known. What I learned from him was that history is vital to our future but always ask, “History according to whom”. Dr Andres Tijerina.

[@paradiddle1]

Exhilarating! I had the absolute pleasure of taking a course with Dr Tijerina when he taught in Kingsville. Absolutely loved it!

[@SKY-jv9ue]

Mr.. Tijerina is a sharp thinker!

[@lawrencepaxton4867]

Roger Borroel first comment by you I can agree with.

[@davidbrooks1724]

Great story , great speaker . Thank you for your time and effort. Love it

[@jamessanchez2486]

Juan seguin. We must find a way to make the town of Seguin ,TX to be a place to visit in TX.

[@yomamawanmadikku9094]

We should build a monument.... Well lets wait till all this political stuff dies down first nah mean?

[@marthagomez7335]

Seguin fought for Mexico 🇲🇽 in 1846-1848 war.

[@mariocantu4720]

​@@marthagomez7335your right ,but you're living today by the principles of life and laws that we enjoy in Texas and the UN because of the old Mexico ,not the current one we know today.

[@jimminshall7449]

Great presentation. 👍👍

[@JesusRoblesMaloof]

Great lecture but Why wait until Q&A to talk about slavery?

[@bryanmorgan1871]

Andy was the Maroon Band commander when I was a Fish in 1966. Howdy, Andy!

[@ferdinandsiegel8967]

What about Navarro?

[@JesusRoblesMaloof]

Also why don't talk about Lorenzo de Zavala?

[@cherrera1010]

Because they will open a can of worms!😂😂😂

[@aliciawylde9372]

It is such a gift that the "Alamo" sign with a white dude's face on it starts falling 🤘

[@ferdinandsiegel8967]

Cattle originally from Europe.

[@cherrera1010]

Were in Europe?

[@ferdinandsiegel8967]

The Americans helped Mexico win it's independence from Spain.

[@ferdinandsiegel8967]

A Texan is somebody born in Texas.

[@lyartbane2115]

The battle of the Alamo is the most important and most significant historical aspect of those missions. Without the battle and the greater Texas revolution, most people wouldn’t care about those missions at all. It’s like you’re trying to downplay the battle. When it’s the entire reason we remember the Alamo in the first place. You’re trying to uplift others while rendering Anglo Texans to a lower status. The Cowboy hat was invented by Stetson an American. In fact while the American Cowboy originated with Mexican Vaqueros. It soon took on a life and culture of its own. A mixture of frontier and Victorian values with vestiges of chivalry. Another point is that you seem to be disregarding the whole reason that Anglos were invited in the first place. It was because the land was very sparsely populated. Yet you make it seem like it was very densely populated by non Anglos. As if there were just as many Tejanos as there were Anglos. If that were the case there would have been no reason to invite Anglos in the first place. The fact is that by the time of the Texas revolution the Anglos were easily the overwhelming majority. The Anglos were the founding population of the Texas Republic. Steven F. Austin is the father of Texas an Anglo. Now I’m not trying to downplay the Tejanos many of them fought bravely and deserve to be remembered as Texas heroes. However I find it odd that you never mentioned the many Tejanos that were against the Texas revolution and independence from Mexico. Now what is a Texan ? Well that can be defined through Texan culture. Some aspects of Texas culture and identity are in no particular order as follows. 1.) Cowboys and country music. 2.) Chili and especially with no beans. 3.) Blue bonnets. 4.) Texas English. The founding fathers of Texas spoke English. So it makes sense that they would found an English speaking nation. 5.) supporting the right to keep and bare arms. 6.) Chicken fried Steak. 7.) Texas legends and myths like the Marfa lights, El Muerto, Lechuza, and the tales of various Texas outlaws. Like John Westly Hardin, Sam Bass and Bonnie and Clyde. 8.) remembering the Alamo. 9.) the belief that everything is bigger (and better) in Texas. And these are just off the top of my head.

[@beachcomber1able]

You forgot the right to bring African slaves into Texas. 😒

[@lyartbane2115]

@@beachcomber1able Most historians agree that Slavery was not a major cause of the Texas revolution. It was a peripheral issue.

[@beachcomber1able]

I'm sure Santa Anna didn't take his army north to free the slaves in Texas. 😄 Bowie was a slave dealer and Travis a staunch advocate of that institution. The Texicans couldn't have instigated the mass importation of slaves without getting the Mexicans out of the picture.

[@lyartbane2115]

@@beachcomber1able Santa Anna was a ruthless dictator that styled himself “the Napoleon of the west”. He abolished the Mexican constitution and there were uprisings against his rule all over Mexico. There were also many cultural differences between the Anglos and Mexicans not least of which were political. According to historian H.W Brands on page 204 second paragraph “where the right of assembly and petition was part of the Americans English inheritance, it had no counterpart in the Spanish tradition.” As a result , convening itself-regardless of what might be said or done at the convention-connoted sedition to the Mexican authorities and put them on alert.” The Spanish language is alluded to as an alien tongue in the Texas Declaration of Independence. And there were many parallels between the Texas revolution and the American revolution. That were not lost on the Texians.

[@lyartbane2115]

@@beachcomber1able Santa Anna was a ruthless dictator that styled himself “the Napoleon of the west”. He abolished the Mexican constitution and there were uprisings against his rule all over Mexico. There were also many cultural differences between the Anglos and Mexicans not least of which were political. According to historian H.W Brands on page 204 second paragraph “where the right of assembly and petition was part of the Americans English inheritance, it had no counterpart in the Spanish tradition.” As a result , convening itself-regardless of what might be said or done at the convention-connoted sedition to the Mexican authorities and put them on alert.” The Spanish language is alluded to as an alien tongue in the Texas Declaration of Independence. And there were many parallels between the Texas revolution and the American revolution. That we’re not lost on the Texians.

[@richardthayer5907]

FUCK METH MEXICO!