Don't Mess with Texas [Horsemen]

A New History of Old Texas

Brandon Seale

Arts, Cabeza De Vaca, The Alamo, Battle Of Medina, San Antonio Missions, Texas, Mexico, Gutierrez-magee, Education, Comanches, Apaches, Society & Culture, San Antonio, Courses, Philosophy, History

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🗓️ 8 June 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Episode 1 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Engines of Texas History. The return of the horse to the North American continent and its domestication by people of the Texas plains redrew the map of Native North America and defined the spheres of influence of European colonial empires for three centuries. It led to the formation of highly decentralized, individualistic frontier societies that either successfully adopted the horse or suffered at the hands of those who had. Maybe “Don’t Mess with...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Engines of TechSanity.
0:07.0	Episode 1, Don't Mess with Texas Horseman.
0:11.0	I'm Brandon Seal.
0:14.0	The origin story of the Lippon Apaches goes something like this. Down in the lower world, at the beginning, there was no light, only darkness.
0:26.6	Down there were the people, us, the Apaches, or the Dene, as we call ourselves.
0:33.6	From the Wadalupe Mountains we emerged and began walking, clockwise, to the four directions.
0:40.5	To the north went the Navajo, to the west the Chiracawa, to the south the Mescaleros,
0:46.7	and to the east, the last to drop off, were the Lipannes.
0:52.1	The first Lipan was a great one.
0:55.3	Killer of enemies, he was called.
0:57.7	Nothing was impossible to him.
0:59.9	But even he prayed for a little help.
1:02.7	And this was to show us that no matter how strong we are, we must still ask for a little
1:07.0	help.
1:08.6	In response, he was told to make a horse. He made the eye from the evening
1:13.6	star so that the horse could see in both day and night. He made the ear from the crescent moon.
1:19.3	He made the teeth from hail. He made the mane and tail from rain. In the horse's nostrils,
1:25.1	killer of enemies placed the lightning. Then he called the four winds from the four directions, and they entered the horse's nostrils, Killer of Enemies placed the lightning.
1:30.4	Then he called the four winds from the four directions,
1:33.0	and they entered the horse at four different points,
1:35.2	where today you see whirls on his hide,
1:38.0	one at the flank, one under the shoulder,
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