History of the United States I / Unit 11 USH1 1537 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Tejanos Dispossessed
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The idea
Americans in Texas generally treated both Tejano and Native American residents with utter contempt, eager to displace and dispossess them.
In practice
Anglo-American leaders seizing the lands of Tejano neighbours who had supported the rebellion.
Where people slip
President Mirabeau Lamar instituted a programme of ethnic cleansing in eighteen thirty-nine aimed at pushing all Native tribes out of Texas.
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