I was educated until high school hear Houston, and then lived in San Antonio for three years (2011-13) as an adult, and I was well into my adulthood when the reality of colonization erasing prehistoric civilizations pre-Texas felt like a revelation, your article fleshing it out even further. We can be duped into believing the city of San Antonio is OLD, which is not untrue either. We worship and commune often with the earliest tangible, accepted records, thanks to monuments and technology, of the European quests and Catholic missions, the Mexican-American war, the battle of this fort or that ground, all of which isn't contemporary in the common sense. Yet, they're mere recent history, all arrows and atlatls pointing to their existence to end indigenous civilizations we no longer know the names of. Tribes and cultures didn't happen to vanish or fail to thrive – we committed genocide and ecocide and built on top of them. We're proud of our 200-to-300-year-OLD heritage, which is about as far back as our minds can truly envision. Thanks for digging for what's beneath. It is exquisite and fascinating! This is the Texas history I which I'd learned.
thanks shelby / san antonio is 300 years old we are told / no it's been 10,000 years and more since the first people lived here and celebrated the springs and benefitted from the bounty of nature and told stories and talked to the trees and knew the land as a mother and a lover and a friend maybe an enemy when the drought came / it's because we don't have written records of that time that we don't talk about it / it's invisible / like it never existed / our words are of european origin / also we also have never done the archaeology to learn about those people / built a city on top of those sites but the vibe remains somehow / i feel it
I love the sound bath in the background and the lack of drama in your voice and your humility as a story teller, here. I love the history and story, Rohn. Thank you!
I was educated until high school hear Houston, and then lived in San Antonio for three years (2011-13) as an adult, and I was well into my adulthood when the reality of colonization erasing prehistoric civilizations pre-Texas felt like a revelation, your article fleshing it out even further. We can be duped into believing the city of San Antonio is OLD, which is not untrue either. We worship and commune often with the earliest tangible, accepted records, thanks to monuments and technology, of the European quests and Catholic missions, the Mexican-American war, the battle of this fort or that ground, all of which isn't contemporary in the common sense. Yet, they're mere recent history, all arrows and atlatls pointing to their existence to end indigenous civilizations we no longer know the names of. Tribes and cultures didn't happen to vanish or fail to thrive – we committed genocide and ecocide and built on top of them. We're proud of our 200-to-300-year-OLD heritage, which is about as far back as our minds can truly envision. Thanks for digging for what's beneath. It is exquisite and fascinating! This is the Texas history I which I'd learned.
thanks shelby / san antonio is 300 years old we are told / no it's been 10,000 years and more since the first people lived here and celebrated the springs and benefitted from the bounty of nature and told stories and talked to the trees and knew the land as a mother and a lover and a friend maybe an enemy when the drought came / it's because we don't have written records of that time that we don't talk about it / it's invisible / like it never existed / our words are of european origin / also we also have never done the archaeology to learn about those people / built a city on top of those sites but the vibe remains somehow / i feel it
Just listened to this. Beautifully done.
thanks / i like it too
I love the sound bath in the background and the lack of drama in your voice and your humility as a story teller, here. I love the history and story, Rohn. Thank you!
you're welcome / thank you for your support
Excellent telling of an amazing history!
Well done, thank you.