It was also of a piece with earlier responses to Native Americans.
In the final frame, he sheds a single tear.Īll of this fit with the hippie-themed back-to-the-land movement that romanticized Indigenous people as much as taking them seriously. “A public service announcement from that era, designed to combat littering, featured an Indian man (the actor Iron Eyes Cody, who was actually Sicilian) in full dress walking through a modern United States covered in litter. As one could ask about the states’ rights argument-states’ rights to do what?-I don’t recall my teachers giving a complete explanation for why Anglo-Texans felt so threatened by the Mexican government.” Anglo-Texans chafed at the centralizing tendencies of the Mexican government and longed to be free. It was about states’ rights,” the move when talking about Texas’s rebellion against Mexico was to take similar refuge in concerns about overreaching federal authorities. Instead, as with the claim “The American Civil War was not about slavery.
But if slavery was mentioned in the early days of my education, it didn’t figure prominently enough in our lessons to give us a clear and complete picture of the role the institution played in the state’s early development, its days as a Republic, its entry into the Union, and its role in the Civil War and its aftermath. A common retort when another kid-often a sibling-insisted you do something for them you didn’t want to do was “Slavery time is over.” And we celebrated Juneteenth, which marked the end of the institution. I heard references to slavery from my parents and grandparents. Of course, I didn’t need school to tell me that Blacks had been enslaved in Texas. I cannot say with certainty that slavery was never mentioned. “When I was growing up, we took Texas history twice-if I remember correctly, in the fourth and the seventh grades.
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