Las Villas del Norte

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 December 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Episode 1 of Brandon Seale's podcast on the Republic of the Rio Grande. In the 1750's, Carrizo Indians living in the lower Rio Grande Valley greeted two new groups of settlers: the Lipan Apaches and the Spanish. For the next two generations, the freedoms - and terrors - of the region continued to attract a hardy array of new settlers, including a surprisingly large percentage of "mulatos," Afro-Mexicans who found refuge on the distant Rio Grande frontier. Photo: The red sandstone church in ...

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Republic of the Rio Grande.
0:07.0	Episode 1, Las Villas del Norte.
0:10.0	I'm Brandon Seale.
0:14.0	Out of the corner of his eye, Francisco Rocha saw something.
0:20.0	Or more accurately, he felt something,
0:22.6	because when he turned his head,
0:24.0	he saw nothing more than the tops of a few young mesquite trees.
0:28.1	But he couldn't shake the feeling that there was something out there
0:31.0	and two decades of working the brush country north of the Rio Grande
0:34.8	had taught him to trust his instincts.
0:38.9	It was moments like this that reminded Francisco of the terrors that came with the freedom of
0:43.4	the frontier. It was the freedom that had drawn him here, just as it had drawn the other
0:48.4	first Spanish settlers of the lower Rio Grande Valley. Yet this freedom that Francisco
0:53.9	and other early settlers of the Rio Grande sought
0:56.1	wasn't something that they were fleeing from. No, Francisco and his people were always moving
1:02.4	towards something, seeking autonomy within the tradition that had produced them, more so than
1:07.9	independence from it. This is why one of the first things that the residents of Reville did, after founding their town in
1:15.2	1750, was to build a stone church, a reminder of the great Hispanic and Catholic tradition
1:21.7	of which they were a part, and which at that time was the empire upon which the sun never set.
1:29.2	The residents of Reilla completed their red sandstone church in about 1767,
1:34.4	the same year that the 26 founding families of the region were formally granted their ranches.
1:40.2	These ranches were so large that they were measured in 4,400 acres sitios, and founding
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