Welcome to Lippon to Lippon of Hockance. Episode 8, The Unbroken.

I'm Brandon Seal.

For as much as the Commandant General Juan de Ugaldi was cynical,

the new governor of Texas in 1787 was sincere.

Governor Rafael Martinez Pacheco had personal experience with the Lipanes.

He'd been a young officer in 1757, stationed at the Presidio of San Sabah,

and was around for all of the drama that followed.

None of which, it seems, had led him to view the Lipanes uncharitably.

If anything, he thought his past experience helped him to understand these mysterious but undeniably powerful people. The first thing he did when

he took office as Texas governor in 1787 was increased the amount of the annual Lippon rent payments.

He actually came out of his own pocket to do this

to the tune of an additional 6,000 pesos.

He then went ahead and entered into a peace treaty

with local Lipanes,

ignoring the official Spanish policy of the time

that prohibited peace with the Apaches.

Within two years, however,

this governor would be murdering five Lipan captains in his own house

and justifying it, quote, because the Lipanis themselves have created the excuse, the time is right to accomplish their extermination,

since they have squandered such a good opportunity to settle in towns or missions in order to preserve their lives, end quote.

How could things have gone so wrong so quickly, especially for someone who seemed to be so

favorably disposed toward the Lipanes?

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