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Giving Thanks for Native American Culture VOL. 1 • NUM 23 www.LaPrensaTEXAS.com 18 de Noviembre de 2018 Giving Thanks for Native American Culture Let’s Talk About it: About the Artist: Merriwether’s Growing up Pharmaceutical Alternative Casimiro Castro Guide to Edible Latino: Capitalism Remedies Wild Plants of Texas The Rocket and the Southwest 2 La Prensa Texas SAN ANTONIO 18 de Noviembre de 2018 This grass roots publication is the life Let’s Talk About it... source for a community that is not easily afforded viable access to diverse and ac- cessible media. San Antonio and the sur- Alternative Remedies rounding counties have become accustomed to relevant news brought to them in both English and Spanish since 1913. By Yvette Tello an excellent anti-inflamma- fruits, herbs. cut with them. They placed Before pharmaceutical tory. It even fights cancer gauzes over the webs and Steve A Duran Sr. CEO/Publisher companies, we had herbal cells. 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La Prensa Texas 210-686-0600 18 de Noviembre de 2018 La Prensa Texas SAN ANTONIO 3 About the Cover Artist: Casimiro Castro By Dr. Ricardo Romo as free people, not slaves to offer and lived in Texas until to rule as emperor. Texas faced a double threat anyone. the Texas Revolution broke to their existence with the In- Book and print seller James out in 1836. In the early 1860s Kicka- dian Wars and the American E. Arsenault described this The Kickapoo made a poo Indians met with Em- Civil War. If the Kickapoos print as, “a rare lithograph decision to side with the peror Maximilian to inquire lost their land in Mexico, showing the presentation of Texas-Mexicans, a decision about their legal status and they would be forced to re- a group of Kickapoo Indians that cost them dearly.Viewed land holdings. Casimiro turn to Texas where slavery and runaway Texas slaves as enemies of the new Texas Castro’s famous lithograph was permitted. Some tribe at the court of the Austri- Republic, they were unsure of the Kickapoo Indians members had married run- an Archduke and Emperor about their safety living resulted from that meeting. away slaves, actions which of Mexico, Maximilian in in Texas territory. Mexi- Two French citizens living placed both the Indians and 1865.” can officials understood the in Mexico and working as former slaves in grave dan- In his lithograph of the Kickapoo printers at the Decaen lithog- ger if they were to live in Kickapoo Indians, he also dilemma and offered the raphy firm made copies of Texas. gave us firsthand insights Indians land south of the the lithographs and distrib- Today the Kickapoos, Tri- into the politics of French Rio Grande near the town uted them. bu Kikapu, as they are known occupation of Mexico in the of Musquizin the state of Collaborating with the in Mexico, live largely in the 1860s. The story begins with Coahuila. Decaen firm in Mexico City, Muzquiz Municipality. Over Casimiro Castro, a brilliant the entry of Kickapoo Indi- The new Texas govern- Casimiro Castro received the the last century some of the Mexican artist during the ans into Mexican territory ment did in fact engage in the assistance and expertise in tribe members moved back 19th century, gave us many during the 1830s. “Indian Wars,” principally color lithography to produce to Texas and today live in stunning portrayals of life Just prior to the Texas Rev- fighting the Comanches and a portfolio of images related Maverick County on the and culture of that era. olution, the Mexican gov- Apaches. The Texas mili- to Mexican society. Joseph Kickapoo Indian Reserva- What makes this print ernment invited Kickapoo tia and the Texas Rangers Antoine Decaen, an emigrant tion of Texas not far from the rare is the inclusion of two Indians to take up residence fought these two tribes for from France, decided to town of Eagle Pass. runaway slaves who went in Mexico’s northern fron- another fifty years. present Emperor Maximilian Life changed for the better with the Kickapoo Indian tier, which included present The Kickapoos, who made with several fine art pieces in 1983 for the Kickapoos leaders to see the emperor day Western and Southern their home in Northern Mex- created by Castro. The Kick- when the tribe was granted and became part of Mexican Texas. Mexican officials ico, witnessed the arrival of apoo print was presented federal tribal recognition.
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