Ep. 58: Burying the Hatchet in San Antonio
Wise About Texas
Ken Wise
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2018
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
San Antonio was founded 300 years ago in 1718. From day one, the residents, priests and soldiers faced a constant and menacing threat from the Apache Indians. Raids from the indians and retaliatory campaigns from the soldiers made life in early San Antonio stressful and difficult. Attempts at peace never seemed to work. But all of a sudden, in 1749, the Apache wanted not only to make peace, but also to enter mission life and convert to Christianity. The reason for the Apache’s sudden change of heart is a matter of perspective. But rather than look a gift horse in the mouth, the Spanish held a grand peace ceremony in San Antonio’s main plaza, the likes of which has never been seen in North America. Learn about this unique event in the latest episode of Wise About Texas.
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| 0:00.0 | Howdy and welcome to Wise about Texas, the Texas History Podcast. This is your host Ken Wise and I want to thank you for tuning in for a little bit of Texas history today |
| 0:17.4 | This podcast episode is being released in early September 2018, so I hope everybody had a good summer. |
| 0:23.0 | Got the kids back in school, the routines back going. |
| 0:26.0 | Thank goodness it's football season in Texas Sacred Time |
| 0:30.0 | this fall and we're headed toward hunting season. |
| 0:32.0 | We've got Dove season going on and hope everybody's getting out and enjoying some of the outdoors. |
| 0:37.5 | I've heard from a lot of new listeners over the last couple of weeks and I want everyone to keep spreading the word. |
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| 0:49.6 | enjoying it. |
| 0:50.6 | I've had a couple of people talk about binge listening to all the episodes which |
| 0:53.8 | takes a while now we've had enough of them this is episode 58 and you're joining |
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| 1:08.5 | And the preservation and promotion of Texas history |
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| 1:13.0 | Well as you may know this year marks the 300th anniversary of the founding of |
| 1:18.6 | the city of San Antonio Texas. What a great place. In fact, this episode is being released on a Monday. I'm going to be heading to San Antonio later this week for the Texas General Land Office's Save Texas History Symposium. |
| 1:32.0 | So if anybody listening to this episode is attending the Save Texas History Symposium, |
| 1:38.0 | be sure and introduce yourself, email me, let's get together. |
| 1:42.0 | Today we're going to talk about |
| 1:44.1 | San Antonio we're going to talk about a very interesting story in a ceremony that |
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