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To: Elmer Flugum who wrote (5690)	1/29/2004 9:17:17 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

No, Mexicans are indigenous to the country due south of here. Neither Spaniards, Canary Islanders, Aztecs, Zapotecs, Maya, etc. are indigenous the land that is now Texas. There are only a couple tribes indigenous to Texas alive today - both are now in Oklahoma. Even the Comanche and Kiowa came in from the northern plains - Wyoming - in the 1700's. There are still Indians in this area but they are Alabama-Coushattas originally indigenous to Alabama. I think your account of San Jacinto isn't exactly right. I haven't heard of killings after surrender, but many who tried to escape in a nearby swamp and river were shot down. They didn't even kill Gen. Santa Anna himself when they found him hiding in the grass disguised as an ordinary soldier. They spared him even though he'd ordered the execution of captured Texans previously. The Mexican troops at San Jacinto outnumbered the Texans roughly 2 to 1. There were thousands more Mexican troops in the Harris / Fort Bend County area - though they weren't all at the battleground. If Santa Anna had concentrated his forces in the area, they would have outnumbered the Texans more than 5 to one. At the time of the battle, Texans had been driven from their homes by the Mexican Army and were eager to revenge the massacres of Texans at Goliad and the Alamo. In the 1830's there were only a few thousand Hispanic Mexican citizens in Texas. Bexar County (San Antonio) had 2400, Laredo 2000, Goliad 700, Nacogdoches 500, and Victoria 300. The Bexar County population was composed mainly of descendents of settlers from the Canary Islands the Spanish had brought in in the 1700's. The Anglo-American population here then was about 20,000, so you can see they were the majority. The Anglo-Americans had emigrated at the encouragement of the Mexican government which made large land grants to empresarios like Stephen Austin if they would bring in American settlers. The reason for the policy was the underpopulation of Texas and the difficulty in getting Mexicans to settle here. Figures are as of 1834.