Publication Date
2019
Collection
Capstones
Contributor
Ramon Vasquez, AITSCM, Alamo Trust
Advisor
Lindsey Wieck, Bradley Root, Christian Clark (ITC)
Description
This exhibit is intended to address an issue that is being hotly debated in San Antonio. The Alamo is one of the most recognizable monuments in the United States and has nurtured a rich and multicultural history for the last three centuries. Despite this diversity, the site only memorializes European American histories. Exhibit panels and programming at the Alamo encourage visitors to learn of the Anglo-Texan experience in Texas, provide a cursory and almost vilifying portrayal of Mexico and demonstrate a neglect for Texas Indian history. While working as a guide at the Alamo, I rationalized how to go about fixing this problem. Given the complete absence of Texas Indian history, I decided that visitors must have historical context on Texas Indians to understand their history at the missions. This project will provide the following: a contextual platform for visitors to acquaint themselves with Texas Indian history, present Native Americans as the main historical figures of the Spanish colonial missions and increase awareness of the threats against Texas Indian heritage and history at the Alamo.
Keywords
Native American, Texas Indian, Alamo, Anglo-Texans, Coahuiltecan, Coahuilteco, Tāp Pīlam, Pleistocene, Paleoindian, Clovis techniques, Agricultural Revolution, Hopewell Complex, Nahuatl, monuments, exhibits, programming, Mexico, Spanish colonial missions
Document Type
Article
Medium
Digital exhibit; Manuscript
Format
Size or Duration
25 pages; One digital exhibit
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Publisher
Digital Commons at St. Mary's University
City
San Antonio, Texas