A Tejano (Spanish for "Texan"; archaic spelling texano) is a person of Hispanic descent born and living in the U.S. state of Texas. Hispanic flag, not widely used. ... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... Official language(s) No official language See languages of Texas Capital Austin Largest city Houston Largest metro area Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington Area  Ranked 2nd  - Total 261,797 sq mi (678,051 km²)  - Width 773 miles (1,244 km)  - Length 790 miles (1,270 km)  - % water 2. ...

In 1821, at the end of the Mexican War of Independence, there were about 4,000 Tejanos living in Texas. In the 1820s, many Anglo settlers moved to Texas from the United States. By 1830, the 30,000 settlers in Texas outnumbered the Tejanos two to one. The Anglos and Tejanos alike rebelled against the centralized authority of Mexico City and the draconian measures implemented by the Santa Anna regime. Tensions between the central Mexican government and the settlers eventually led to the Texas Revolution. Year 1821 (MDCCCXXI) was a common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a common year starting on Saturday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Combatants Mexico Spain Commanders Miguel Hidalgo José María Morelos Vicente Guerrero Spanish colonial authorities Strength  ?  ? Casualties  ?  ? Mexican War of Independence (1810-1821), was an armed conflict between the people of Mexico and Spanish colonial authorities, which started on September 16, 1810. ... Look up anglo in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Nickname: Motto: Capital en movimiento Location of Mexico City in south central Mexico Coordinates: , Country Federal entity Boroughs The 16 delegaciones Founded c. ... Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón (February 21, 1794 – June 21, 1876), also known simply as Santa Anna, was a Mexican political leader who greatly influenced early Mexican and Spanish politics and government, first fighting against independence from Spain... Combatants Texas Mexico Commanders Stephen F. Austin Sam Houston Antonio López de Santa Anna Martin Perfecto de Cos Strength c. ...

Tejanos may variously consider themselves to be Spanish or Mexican in ethnicity. In urban areas as well as some rural communities, Tejanos tend to be well integrated into both Hispanic and mainstream American cultures and a number of them, especially among younger generations, identify more with the mainstream and may understand little or no Spanish.

It is necessary to draw this distinction because the people who came from Mexico starting just before, during, and after the Mexican Revolution to today are and were of a different ethnic heritage from the people who colonized Texas during the Spanish Colonial Period, of a different history. While a large number of the people who have come from Mexico since the Mexican Revolution up until the present have drawn their identity from the mestizos or genizaros and had their history and identity in the history of Mexico, the majority of the people who colonized Texas in the Spanish Colonial Period were and drew their identity from the Spaniards and the criollos, and had their history and identity in the history of Spain and of the United States as a consequence of the participation of Spain and its colonial provinces of Texas and Louisiana in the American Revolution. This difference caused the people of Texas, the colonial Tejanos or Tejano Texians, to identify more with the people of Louisiana, which was a Spanish colony, and of the U.S., rather than with the people of Mexico. For this reason as early as 1813 the colonial Tejanos established a government in Texas that looked forward to becoming part of the United States. As revealed by the writings of colonial Tejano Texians such as Antonio Menchaca, the Texas Revolution was first and foremost a colonial Tejano cause, the Anglo Americans simply joined the colonial Tejanos in that cause, having been invited and recruited to do so by the colonial Tejanos, the Tejano Texians.^[1][2][3] This article is about the Mexican Revolution of 1910. ... Mestizo (Brazil Portuguese. ... Genizaro are the descendants of the (Caucasian) Spaniards and detribalized Indigenous Ameri-Indians. ... Criollo, in the Spanish colonial Casta system (caste system) of Latin America, was a person born in the Spanish colonies deemed to have purity of blood in respect to the individuals European ancestry. ... This article is about the U.S. State. ... John Trumbulls Declaration of Independence, showing the five-man committee in charge of drafting the Declaration in 1776 as it presents its work to the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia The American Revolution refers to the period during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen...

The majority of Tejanos today consist of Mexican Americans with a significant number of them being Latinos or Chicanos generally of Amerindian or mixed Spanish and Amerindian heritage. The majority are also predominantly White Hispanic as were most Mexicans who arrived in Texas prior to and during the Mexican Revolution. [1] In addition to this, colonial Tejanos, who can also be correctly identified as Tejano Texians, are descended from the colonists who pioneered Texas as citizens of the Kingdom of Spain through the Spanish Colonial Period starting in the 1600s through the 1800s up to the Texas Revolution and who were generally of pure Spaniard blood, or hispanicized European heritage, including Frenchmen like Juan Seguin, Italian like Jose Cassiano, or Corsican like Antonio Navarro, generally of white Mediterranean race. Germans, Czechs, Swedes, Irish, Scots, Welsh, and Anglo Americans - who arrived in the 19th century – were also considered Tejanos as they were Hispanicized and the former two racial groups contributed greatly to Tex-Mex music. Among them were black Africans, both enslaved and freed, and Amerindians who had integrated socially and religiously into colonial societies. There were also people of mixed blood among them ranging from mulattos to mestizos^[4][5][6][7] who were excluded by the Spanish law of "limpieza de sangre", purity of blood, from participating in the colonization of Northern New Spain including Texas and the American Southwest.^{[8][9][10][11]} For these reasons a colonial Tejano, or Tejano Texian, which today can also include a mestizo and mulatto, is more accurately classified as a "Spaniard Texan" or "Spaniard Texian" or "Spanish Texan" or "Spanish Texian" or "Spanish American" or as a "Texan of Spanish heritage", as opposed to the more familiar "new Tejano" who is of Mexican heritage. Included in the most Tejanos today are Hispanics of other national groups who settled Texas in the mid-20th century. Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Latino refers to people living in the US of Latin American nationality and their US-born descendants. ... A Chicano is a person of Mexican descent born in the United States. ... This article is about U.S. white hispanic residents. ... Languages French Occitan Greek Italian Portuguese Spanish Catalan Religions Predominantly Roman Catholic Protestant Orthodox The Mediterranean race was one of the three sub-categories into which the people of Europe were divided by anthropologists in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, following the publication of William Z. Ripleys... Map showing the population density of Americans who declared Scottish ancestory in the census. ... Listing of notable living/dead Americans who are of Welsh descent. ... Alternative meaning: Nineteenth Century (periodical) (18th century — 19th century — 20th century — more centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 19th century was that century which lasted from 1801-1900 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the color. ... Representation of Mulattos during the Latin American colonial period Mulatto (also Mulato) is a term of Spanish and/or Portuguese origin describing the first generation offspring of a Sub-Saharan African and a European. ... map of New Spain in red, with territories claimed but not controlled in orange. ... The Southwest region of the United States is drier than the adjoining Midwest in weather; the population is less dense and, with strong Spanish-American and Native American components, more ethnically varied than neighboring areas. ... ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...

In direct relation to this distinction, genuinely Tejano music is related and sounds more like the folk music of Louisiana known as "Cajun" music blended with the sounds of Rock and Roll, R&B, Pop, and Country with some influences of Mariachi. The American Cowboy culture and music was born from the meeting of the Anglo-American Texians who were colonists from the American South and the original Tejano Texian pioneers and their "vaquero" or "cow man" culture.^{[12][13][14][15]} Tejano[1] (Spanish for Texan) or Tex-Mex[2] music is the name given to various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Hispanic-descended Tejanos of Central and South Texas. ...

In the Spanish language, the term "tejano" is simply the term to identify an individual from Texas regardless of race or ethnic background. During the Spanish Colonial Period of Texas, before Texas was wrested from Spain and became a part of Mexico in 1821, the colonial settlers of Northern New Spain, including Texas and the American Southwest, understood themselves to be and called themselves Spaniards^[16], as opposed to the people of Central and Southern Mexico who generally understood themselves to be and called themselves mestizos or Amerindians or Mexicans. This is also a crucially important reason why the term "Spaniard Texan" rather than "Mexican Texan" is more correctly applied to the Tejano Texians, and to their descendants.

The majority of Tejanos of both first generation (the first settlers) and those who descend from recent early and mid 20th century Mexican immigrants are concentrated in Southern Texas. Bexar county, especially San Antonio, is the historic center of Tejano culture. Duval county has one of the highest concentrations of Tejanos. Bexar County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. ... “San Antonio” redirects here. ... Duval County is a county located in the state of Texas. ...

Famous Tejanos

Jose Antonio Navarro, Juan Seguin, Jose Antonio Navarro (February 27, 1795 - January 13, 1871) was a Texas statesman, revolutionary, and politician. ... Juan Nepomuceno Seguin (1806-1890) was a Tejano hero of the Texas Revolution. ...

• Blas María de la Garza Falcón,

Flaco Jimenez, Isidro Lopez, Esteban Jordan, Tony de La Rosa, Little Joe, Lorenzo de Zavala, Mirabeau B. Lamar, Jesse Trevino, Lisa Lopez, Rosita Fernandez, The Friendship Monument. Blas María de la Garza Falcón in Corpus Christi, Texas. ... Lorenzo de Zavala (October 3, 1788 – November 16, 1836) was a 19th-century Mexican politician. ... Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (August 16, 1798 – December 19, 1859) was the third president of the Republic of Texas, following David G. Burnet (1836 as interim president) and Sam Houston. ...

• Selena
• Roy Benavidez
• Vikki Carr
• Henry Cisneros
• Jade Esteban Estrada
• Freddy Fender
• Hector P. Garcia
• Ben Garza
• Alberto Gonzales
• Henry B. Gonzalez
• Nicholas Gonzalez
• Eva Longoria
• Felix Longoria
• Jose M. Lopez
• Trini Lopez
• Los Lonely Boys
• Nina Mercedez
• Lupe Ontiveros
• Federico Peña
• Jennifer Pena
• Bobby Pulido
• Robert Rodriguez
• Efren Saldivar
• Juan Seguín
• Lee Trevino
• Jaci Velasquez

For the movie based on the life of the singer, see Selena (film). ... Roy Perez Benavidez (August 5, 1935 - November 29, 1998) from DeWitt County, Cuero, Texas, was a U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions near Loc Ninh, Vietnam on May 2, 1968. ... Vikki Carr (born July 19, 1941 in El Paso, Texas as Florencia Bisenta de Casillas Martinez Cardona) is an American singer who has sung in a variety of music genres, including jazz, pop and country, but has enjoyed her greatest success singing in Spanish Her first hit was Hes... Henry Gabriel Cisneros (born June 11, 1947) is an American politician, businessman, and community leader. ... Jade Esteban Estrada (born September 17, 1975 at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas) is a successful Latin pop singer, comedian, choreographer and actor. ... Freddy Fender Freddy Fender (June 4, 1937 – October 14, 2006), born Baldemar Huerta in San Benito, Texas, USA, was a Mexican-American Tejano, country, and rock and roll musician, known for his work as a solo artist and in the groups Los Super Seven and the Texas Tornados. ... A poster for an early AGIF meeting depicting Dr. Hector P. García Héctor Pérez García (January 17, 1914—July 1996) was a Mexican-American physician, surgeon, World War II veteran, civil rights advocate, and founder of the American G.I. Forum. ... Alberto Gonzales (born August 4, 1955), is the 80th and current Attorney General of the United States. ... Henry Barbosa Gonzalez (May 3, 1916 - November 28, 2000) was a Democratic politician from the state of Texas. ... Nicholas Gonzalez Nicholas Edward Gonzalez (born January 3, 1976 in San Antonio, Texas) is a Mexican-American actor. ... For the baseball player with a similar name, see Evan Longoria. ... Felix Longoria was a Hispanic private in the United States Army. ... Jose M. Lopez, 94, a retired Army master sergeant who received the Medal of Honor for engaging in a series of seemingly suicidal missions during the Battle of the Bulge, died May 16 at a daughters home in San Antonio. ... Trini Lopez (born May 15, 1937) is a Mexican-American singer and guitarist. ... Los Lonely Boys are American Grammy-winning musical group from San Angelo, Texas. ... Nina Mercedez (born November 10, 1977 in Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American pornographic actress. ... Lupe Ontiveros (born September 17, 1942) is an American film and television actress. ... Federico Fabian Peña (born March 15, 1947) was United States Secretary of Transportation from 1993 to 1997 and United States Secretary of Energy from 1997 to 1998, during the presidency of Bill Clinton. ... Jennifer Peña, (September 17, 1983- ) a native of Corpus Christi, Texas, is a Tejano/Latin pop singer. ... Roberto Pulido Jr. ... Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) is an American writer and film director who is known for making profitable, crowd-pleasing independent and studio films with fairly low budgets and fast schedules by Hollywood standards. ... Efren Saldivar (born 30 September 1969) is an American serial killer who murdered patients whilst working as a respiratory therapist. ... Juan Nepomuceno Seguín (IPA: ) (1806–1890) was a Tejano hero of the Texas Revolution. ... Lee Buck Trevino (born December 1, 1939) is an American professional golfer. ... Jaci Velasquez (born Jacquelyn Davette Velasquez on October 15, 1979) is an American Contemporary Christian and pop singer. ...

See also

• Chicano
• Texian

For other uses, see Chicano (disambiguation). ... Anglo-American citizens of Texas were known as Texians when Texas was part of Mexico, and until the United States annexed the Republic of Texas. ...

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