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  • Bridging Cultures

    Reflections on the Heritage Identity of the Texas-Mexico Borderlands

    Series series Summerfield G. Roberts Texas History Series
    Borderlands: they stretch across national boundaries, and they create a unique space that extends beyond the international boundary. They extend north and south of what we think of as the actual “border,” encompassing even the urban areas of San Antonio, Texas, and Monterrey, Nueva León, Mexico, affirming shared identities and a sense of belonging far away from the geographical boundary.In ... Read more

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  • Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier

    The Ethnology of Heinrich Berghaus

    Series Book 42 - Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest
    Winner, 2018 Presidio La Bahia Award, sponsored by the Sons of the Republic of TexasIn 1851, an article appeared in a German journal, Geographisches Jahrbuch (Geographic Yearbook), that sought to establish definitive connections, using language observations, among the Comanches, Shoshones, and Apaches. Heinrich Berghaus’s study was based on lexical data gathered by a young German settler in Texas, ... Read more

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  • Living Our Language

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    by Anton Treuer ...
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    A language carries a people's memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or as humorous tales. This collection of stories from Anishinaabe elders offers a history of a people at the same time that it seeks to preserve the language of that people.>As fluent speakers of Ojibwe grow older, the community questions whether younger speakers know the language ... Read more

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  • On the Border with Crook

    "There is an old saw in the army which teaches that you can never know a man until after having made a scout with him in bad weather. All the good qualities and bad in the human make up force their way to the surface under the stimulus of privation and danger, and it not infrequently happens that the comrade who at the military post was most popular, by reason of charm of manner and geniality, ... Read more

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    First Grade Books

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    Series series Voices of America
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