Coahuiltecan

Good afternoon.

I come to you from the land of the Coahuiltecans, the land of Yanaguana, which is San Antonio, Texas.

And the process, how the book came about, is long and tedious.

I'm not going to bore you with that.

On the US side, it encompassed New Mexico, Arizona, and California, as well as the southernmost parts of Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.

He also included parts of West Texas and stopped right around the area known historically as the Comancheria, an area which includes parts that were originally within Coahuiltecan territory prior to the Comanche incursion to that area.

Of course, those familiar with Chicano ideology know that Aztlán eventually came to symbolize all of Mexico's ceded territories, including Texas.

Some thought of it as the lost land, and the notion gained wider attention throughout the Southwest, most notably after the Denver Youth Conference in 1969.

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when he's already thinking this stuff.

He's thinking more as a historian, 'cause that's what he was, and he was also thinking in terms of a anthropologist and archeologist, and, and how would someone frame this collective area, in the same way that, for example, the Coahuiltecan peoples, uh, of Texas and, and northeastern Mexico are called all Coahuiltecans even though they have different individual identities.

Mm-hmm.

Hmm

... against the indigenous peoples of Texas, the Coahuiltecan, the Comanche, all that stuff.

If you're Mexican American in Texas, you've survived some facet of that, whether it was-

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