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|  Subject: Lipantitlan, Tenoxtitlan and Anahuac  Wed Nov 07, 2007 12:53 am | |
| Many folks are probably familiar with Lipantitlan, which was a fort established by the Mexican government in 1831, to stem the tide of Anglo immigration into Texas, and as a part of the program to crack down on those Anglo settlers who already were present. The Texas Parks and Wildlife Department oversees a historical park at the site of Lipantitlan today, which is located near Mathis in Nueces County:
http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/spdest/findadest/parks/lipantitlan/
The fort of Tenoxtitlan was set inland on the Brazos River for the same puropose, as was Anahuac, located on Galveston Bay.
But the Mexican government reached toward a cultural heritage that was surprising to me, at least, in their endeavor to hault the Anglicization of the wayward colony: it chose Aztec suffixes to adorn the names of these new forts. Clearly, Lipantitlan was called after a memory of the Lipan Apaches, but I'd given the rest of its construction no further consideration. I would have assumed that the Spanish inheritance would have been ascendent and the Aztec downplayed during this period, but apparently not.
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The woman of the frontier made the best of her situation, for she had developed a respect for the land that gave her freedom as well as the courage to live in it.
~~~ from the perspective of Anne Seagraves |
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