Texas: The false origin of the name.: Bilingual edition (Texas History Revisited)

by Jorge Luis Garcia Ruiz

According to the official version, the name of the State of Texas comes from the word tasha, which in the Caddo indigenous language, spoken by the Indians of the Hasinai nation, means "friendship." This conclusion was reached by the American historian Herbert Eugene Bolton in 1907 based on the claim that, during the 1689 expedition led by Alonso de Leon, there was a meeting between Fray Damian Massanet and some Indians who said techas to them, as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 179758264X
• ISBN13: 9781797582641
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 143 Pages
• Weight: 0.51 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.4" x 6.1"