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1 Apache Creation Narrative This account of creation comes from a Jicarilla Apache oral tradition recorded during the 1930s. The Creation and the Emergence In the beginning there was nothing – no earth, no living beings. There were only darkness, water, and Cyclone, the wind. There were no humans, but only the Hactcin, the Apache supernatural beings. The Hactcin made the earth, the underworld beneath it, and the sky above it. The earth they made as a woman who faces upward, and the sky they made

Chapters

• 1 Apache Creation Narrative
• 2 Indigenous Languages of the Lower Rio Grande
• 3 Cabeza de Vaca’s Narrative, 1542
• 4 Pedro Naranjo’s Testimony, 1681
• 5 The Talon Brothers Describe Texas
• 8 Thomas Jefferson Letters to Bernardo Gálvez
• 10 Bernardo Gutiérrez de Lara’s Constitution of Texas
• 12 Juana de Dios Machado de Ridington’s Interview
• 13 José María Sánchez’s Account of the Texas Frontier
• 14 Texas Treaty with the Cherokee
• 15 Barbara Aguirre’s Petition for a “Divorce”
• 18 General Francisco Mejia’s Proclamation
• 19 A U.S. Prisoner of War in Matamoros
• 21 Congressman Abraham Lincoln’s “Spot Resolutions”
• 23 Susan Shelby Magoffin’s Account of New Mexico
• 24 Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• 25 Juan Cortina’s Call to Arms in Brownsville
• 28 Civil War Military Reports from Fort Brown
• 29 Photographs of Brownsville and Matamoros, 1864-1867

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