Jose gutierrez de lara biography sample
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[Message from José Bernardo Gutiérrez dem Lara to the Laredo Alcalde, August 22, 1826]
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SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS
� 2000-2012, Wallace L. McKeehan, All Rights Reserved
First Independent State | New Spain-Index
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Guti�rrez de Lara
Mexican-Texan: The Story of a Creole Hero
By Rie Jarratt
(Published by Creole Texana, Austin, TX, 1949)
CHAPTER VII
THE REVOLUTION BEGINS
As soon as Magee and his volunteers surged across the Sabine, they were in the Neutral Ground. Established in 1806 by an agreement between General James Wilkinson and Colonel Simon Herrera, the Neutral Ground was a fifty-mile-wide strip of land extending from a point above Natchitoches to the Gulf. As its name implied, it belonged neither to the United States nor to Spain, and as a result was inhabited mainly by lawless bandits who were the terror of their neighbors on both sides. Its boundary on the Texas side was the Sabine; on the Louisiana side, the Arroyo Hondo. But now the territory was no longer neutral; for soon after crossing the Sabine, scouts
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As my siblings and I were growing up in Laredo, Texas in the 1950s, we were truly blessed to receive a strong sense of our South Texas Spanish Mexican ancestry.
My mother took particular interest in teaching us at-home lessons about our unique heritage because she knew we weren’t getting the information in the classroom.
She did so because even though Spanish-surnamed students occupied most desks at our neighborhood school (affectionately called La Escuela Amarilla), the teachers weren’t allowed to instruct us about our ancestral people, places, and events.
Equally unkind, speaking Spanish on school grounds was forbidden. Ironically, most of our teachers and staff were local Mexican-descent Laredoans who primarily spoke Spanish. For example:
- We were taught about New England pioneers from the east coast, but nothing (nada) about our founding pioneers who settled today’s South Texas. Though, they’re the ones who named the towns, ri