El Mesquite - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook El Mesquite write by Elena Zamora O'Shea. This book was released on 2000. El Mesquite available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The open country of Texas between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande was sparsely settled through the nineteenth century, and most of the settlers who did live there had Hispanic names that until recently were rarely admitted into the pages of Texas history. In 1935, however, a descendant of one of the old Spanish land-grant families in the region-a woman, no less-found an ingenious way to publish the history of her region at a time when neither Tejanos nor women had much voice. She told the story from the perspective of an ancient mesquite tree, under whose branches much South Texas history had passed. Her tale became an invaluable source of folk history but has long been out of print. Now, with important new introductions by Leticia M. Garza-Falcón and Andrés Tijerina, the history witnessed by El Mesquite can again inform readers of the way of life that first shaped Texas. Through the voice of the gnarled old tree, Elena Zamora O'Shea tells South Texas political and ethnographic history, filled with details of daily life such as songs, local plants and folk medicines, foods and recipes, peone/patron relations, and the Tejano ranch vocabulary. The work is an important example of the historical-folkloristic literary genre used by Mexican American writers of the period. Using the literary device of the tree's narration, O'Shea raises issues of culture, discrimination, and prejudice she could not have addressed in her own voice in that day and explicitly states the Mexican American ideology of 1930s Texas. The result is a literary and historic work of lasting value, which clearly articulates the Tejano claim to legitimacy in Texas history. ELENA ZAMORA O'SHEA (1880-1951) was born at Rancho La Noria Cardenena near Peñitas, Hidalgo County, Texas. A long-time schoolteacher, whose posts included one on the famous King Ranch, she wrote this book to help Tejano children know and claim their proud heritage.
El Mesquite
El Mesquite - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook El Mesquite write by Elena Zamora O'Shea. This book was released on 1988*. El Mesquite available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Dynamic Paleontology
Dynamic Paleontology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Dynamic Paleontology write by Mark A.S. McMenamin. This book was released on 2016-06-10. Dynamic Paleontology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Using a series of case studies, the book demonstrates the power of dynamic analysis as applied to the fossil record. Written in an engaging and informative style, Dynamic Paleontology outlines the best application of quantitative and other tools to critical problems in the paleontological sciences including such topics as analysis of the Cambrian Explosion and the question regarding the presence of life on Mars. The book considers how we think about certain types questions and shows how we can refine our approach to analysis right from the beginning of any particular research effort. The analytical tools presented here will have wide application to other fields of knowledge; as such the book represents a major contribution to our deployment of modern scientific method.
Tejanaland
Tejanaland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tejanaland write by Teresa Palomo Acosta. This book was released on 2022-01-18. Tejanaland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This collection by Teresa Palomo Acosta—poet, historian, author, and activist—spans three decades of her writing, from 1988 through 2018. The collection is divided into four parts: poems, essays, a children’s story, and plays. Each work addresses cultural, historical, political, and gender realities that she experienced from her childhood to the present. The plays, set in the Central Texas Blackland Prairies where Acosta was raised, provide a unique Latina vision of memory, identity, and experience and are a vital contribution to Chicana feminist thought. The essays focus on Acosta’s literary heroes Jovita González de Mireles, Sara Estela Ramírez, and Elena Zamora O’Shea, important writers who contributed significantly to Tejana literature and to Texas letters. The children’s story, “Colchas, Colchitas,” is based on Acosta’s most notable poem, “My Mother Pieced Quilts,” which pays homage to her mother and the many women of her generation who employed needles and thread, creating both practical and symbolic artifacts. This collection is a creative and, indeed, essential expansion of boundaries for what we think of as history, offering a unique and compelling look into the lived experiences and interior contemplations of a Texas artist well worth knowing. Readers will increase their understanding of Tejana experience in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Tejanaland promises to become an important addition to the cultural record, informing historical perspectives on the experiences of Tejana women and contributing significantly to the existing body of work from Tejana writers.
The Mighty Mesquite
The Mighty Mesquite - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mighty Mesquite write by Ramona Moreno Winner. This book was released on 2016-03-03. The Mighty Mesquite available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Follow the adventure of a courageous seed blown onto the desert floor where it grows into the mightiest of trees and becomes a major player in the desert food-web. The Mesquite could be symbolic of determination and survival even under the harshest conditions since the years ending the Ice Age. Facts at the back of the book describe traditional uses of the Mesquite seed-pods, flowers, and sap by indigenous people of North America - to include herbal remedies, protein-rich drinks, and porridge-like meals with fructose sweetness that the body can process without insulin. This bilingual book is packed with culture, science, and history that will provide hours of learning for curious, minds of readers ages 6 - 100. The author, Ramona Moreno Winner, was born and raised in Arizona where she spent many happy hours as a child playing under the Mesquite trees, nibbling on seed pods, and searching for nuggests of tasty tree sap. Bilingual - English/Spanish
