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The Heritage Museum Annual Membership Form Texas Heritage Museum newsletter Individual $25 Family $35 Business $50 Patron $100 Benefactor $250 Name:______Lasting Legacies Address:______Vol. 1 No. 2 Summer 2008

Phone:______Email:______If you sign up for a membership with the Texas Heritage Museum today, you may also sponsor a brick at a special low price of $75. Using the space below, tell us what you want your brick to say. Please limit to 11 characters per line and three lines per brick. If you decide to purchase more than one brick, please attach additional information to this form. Letter from the Director Those wanting to buy a brick without a membership may do so at the regular price of $100. Over the last three months, the Texas Heritage welcome her to the Texas Heritage Museum staff. Museum staff has completed a number of Also in the Hill College Press division, I am pleased Yes, I would like to sponsor a brick. Please make check or money order payable to Texas Heritage Museum. For your convenience we also accept VISA, milestones. In the Galleries and Collection that the 44th book will be released in the fall written ______MASTERCARD, DISCOVER & AMERICAN EXPRESS. division, the staff has been working with Dallas by Dr. Earl Elam, Hill College Press historian/editor. NAME ON CARD______Communication Inc., a fi lm company that has The Texas Heritage Museum is excited to add 23 ______developed four new fi lms for the Texas Heritage new members for the month of June. If you have CARD TYPE______Museum theater and exhibits entitled: Medal EXPIRATION DATE______not joined, please consider becoming a Friend of the of Honor Ceremony, October 26, 2007; Texas Texas Heritage Museum at Hill College. ______CARD NUMBER______Medal of Honor Recipients; The Alamo Revisited; and an updated version of Remembering... We are actively seeking Our Texas Heritage. Another project completed new ways to improve is the construction of a new exhibit gallery to the fulfi llment of the accommodate traveling and temporary exhibits. museum’s mission. Together we are enhancing Texas Heritage Museum The grand opening of this new exhibit gallery will Hill College Campus showcase “Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of your experience—the 112 Lamar Drive a Texas Experience,” a Humanities Texas traveling Texas Heritage Museum Hillsboro, TX 76645 Experience. [email protected] exhibit. The Alamo Images exhibit will complement (254) 582-2555 a new permanent exhibit on early Texas entitled Thank you for your “Revolution & Republic.” In the Historical Research support of the Texas Center division, I would like to announce that we Heritage Museum at John Versluis The Texas Heritage have hired Anita Tufts as the new archivist and Hill College! Director Museum’s mission is to explore Texas and Texans during wartime and how those experiences affect Exciting New Additions to the Texas Heritage Museum us today. and Republic section showcases prominent fi gures of the nation, The newest exhibit at the Texas Heritage Museum and text panels give a brief history of the Republic Texas Heritage Museum is proud to focuses on the Texas Revolution through statehood in 1845. help with historic preservation and and Republic. The exhibit The centerpiece of this gallery is a education by being a member of the charts the social and economic model of the Alamo designed and following organizations: differences between Texas and built by Bruce Baca of Trinity, Tex. that led to revolution He handcrafted the materials to and highlights major battles like make a scale replica of the Alamo Gonzales, the Alamo, Goliad and mission and all of its structures San Jacinto. Artifacts on display and painted and placed fi gures to in this section include a pair of accurately reproduce the famous Mexican pistols from the Battle Alamo model designed and built by Bruce Baca battle. It is an excellent addition to of San Jacinto, a selection of Bowie our museum and a nice counterpart knives, a replica Texian uniform and gear and copies to his Gettysburg model that has been in our lobby of money, among others. One for several years. (continued on inside) Museum (from cover) Forthcoming Publication of HCP Texas Heritage Welcomes New Gallery Hill College talent in our new space. Museum After several months of work, the The grand opening and reception of Kï´tikïti´sh: The Wichita of Frenchmen, Spaniards, and New Staff museum is proud to announce the this addition will be July 31. Indians and Associated who explored, exploited Hill College Member opening of a new gallery space in Texas, 1757-1859 the natural resources, and colonized 112 Lamar Dr. that will be used for temporary and Alamo Images north and central Texas. They were Hillsboro, TX 76645 The Texas Heritage traveling exhibits. Special thanks go The fi rst traveling exhibit in our At the dawn of history on the known in the nineteenth century as (254) 582-2555 Museum would to our Maintenance Manager Frank new gallery will be “Alamo Images: Southern Plains, people speaking a Taovayas (Tawehash, Toyash, etc.), [email protected] gladly like to take this Williams, Jr., who almost single- Changing Perceptions of a Texas language classifi ed as Wichita, , Wacos, and Wichitas. opportunity to introduce one of the languages of the Caddoan Ft. Worth handedly Experience.” This is an exhibit This book is the story of the Dallas everyone to our newest linguistic family, inhabited a relationships of Wichitas and their renovated from Humanities Texas, which is I-35 staff member, Anita Tufts. an old the Texas affi liate of the National vast territory, extending from the associates with other people in the HILLSBORO drainage of the River workshop Endowment of the Humanities that region. It is a story never before Whitney CorsicanaMexia Tufts joins the museum in , south to the river areas team as the archivist and into a Congress created in 1965 to support told in as much detail. Of necessity, research, education and public of northeastern . The because the Indians themselves librarian for the Historical fi nished I-35 Exit 368 gallery and programming. This exhibit examines Spanish explorer Coronado in left no written records, it is a story Research Center after fi ve 1541 called them Quiviras. They Hillsboro, TX new offi ce Frank Williams, Jr. public perception of the Alamo using told from the records of white years of service to Hill numbered in the tens of thousands. College. space for our illustrations inspired by historical men. The period of Wichita history assistant curator. We plan on rotating documents, paintings, television, By the middle of the eighteenth in Texas ended in 1859 when a Museum Hours Tufts received her the exhibits in this gallery every 4-6 movies and even comic books. It century they were known to few hundred and Waco Mon. - Thurs. 8 - 4:30 Frenchmen and Spaniards who B.S. in agriculture weeks. Our hope is that we can pull will be on display starting at the remnants still in Texas were moved Fri. 8 - 4 entered the region as Ousitas, from Oklahoma State out some of our collection that has grand opening of the new gallery July by U.S. authorities to the Wichita June - Aug. Sat. 10 - 5 Touacaras, Taovayas, and Yscanis. University and is been in storage, bring in interesting 31 and will run for three weeks. So Reservation on the Washita River in (galleries only) currently working on exhibits from around Texas and draw please stop by and see it before The Ousitas’ name for themselves . They were joined her master’s degree in on and highlight local community and it is gone! was Kï´tikïti´sh, meaning “racoon there by several hundred Kichais Library and Informational eyed,” denoting the appearance of and Wichitas who were already in Contacts Science from the males who adorned the area around the territory. In 2008, more than John Versluis Other Happenings at the THM their eyes with tattoos. Director University of North 2,300 descendants of the tribes, [email protected] Texas. New Films in the Theater 15 kids ranging from 6th-8th grade. These people spoke the same calling themselves the Wichita & The museum staff has been working Activities included museum tours and language, were divided into multiple Affi liated Tribes: Keechi, Tawakoni, Kendall Milton “I thoroughly enjoy Curator/Archivist with a professional fi lm crew to games, projects divisions, made their homes in Waco, and Wichita, perpetuate their [email protected] my new position at the update the existing fi lms in our theater on Texas villages of grass thatched lodges, heritage in an attractive cultural museum,” Tufts said, Dr. Earl Elam and create new ones. We just fi nished veterans and a earned their living farming crops of center and conduct governmental “and delight in helping Historian/Editor a short video on the Battle of the blacksmithing corn, melons, squash, and pumpkins; affairs at their headquarters in [email protected] the patrons of the Alamo that will accompany Bruce demonstration used all parts of the buffalo which, Anadarko, Oklahoma. Research Center.” Anita Tufts Baca’s Alamo model in the Texas by Ken McElroy until they obtained horses, they The book will be for sale in the Archivist/Librarian [email protected] Tufts added she has a Revolution and Republic section, plus of Austin, where hunted on foot and engaged in gift shop of the Texas Heritage number of goals for a longer tribute to native-born Texas kids made and trade with neighbors. The area they THM’s intern, Garret Museum this fall. The photograph the Research Center recipients which took home their Gohlke, helping Kids occupied was of great strategic below, taken in a Wichita village in Share the this year, including specifi cally covers Fred Ferguson, own “artifacts”. Kollege students importance to the nations that the 1890s, is used courtesy of the Experience organization of the Audie Murphy, Samuel Dealey and competed for political hegemony in National Anthropological Archives, Don’t forget to visit our library and its resources, Hillsboro native James Harris. This Continued Intern Support the region: France, Spain, and the Smithsonian Institution, gift shop on your next making everything more was fi lmed in conjunction with our This is the third year Garrett Gohlke United States. By the 1750s, most Washington, D.C. visit. Whether you love accessible and expanding memorial dedication that took place has worked at the museum for the of the Ousitas—the name originated history or just love Texas, where warranted. last October and includes war footage summer, and we are thrilled to with French traders and was and interviews with family members. have him back again. He recently Anglicized to Wichitas—and their we have great gifts for all Tufts and her family own We are also updating the introduction transferred from the University of associates had migrated to the Red ages. a farm just outside of video to include some of our newer Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton to River and had established villages Hillsboro. exhibits and additions. Midwestern State University in along it and at other sites in north In the Know Wichita Falls to study radiation central Texas. Although declining Did you know that Kids Kollege on the Hill therapy. He has helped accession in population, because of warfare 947 people visited the The Texas Heritage Museum was old collections, update the computer with , Lipan , and museum this past quarter happy to once again participate in database and organize museum Osage neighbors and the ravages and 70 people used the Hill College’s Kids Kollege program storage and will continue working of white men’s diseases, they Historical Research this summer. July 7-11 THM hosted through mid-August. played a signifi cant role in activities Wichita Lodge Center? Anita Tufts