BORDER LAND THE STRUGGLE FOR TEXAS 1821 1846

BORDER LAND: THE STRUGGLE FOR TEXAS, 1821 -1846 DR. SAM HAYNES, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR GREATER SOUTHWESTERN STUDIES RAMONA HOLMES, DEPT. HEAD, DIGITAL CREATION, UTA LIBRARIES A DIGITAL HUMANITIES PROJECT BY THE CENTER FOR GREATER SOUTHWESTERN STUDIES AND UTA LIBRARIES

Native American Mobility Patterns: What factors shaped the mobility patterns of the nomadic and seminomadic tribes of Texas (e. g. hunting, raiding)? How did these patterns change over time (i. e. seasonally, and in the face of increasing Mexican and Anglo-American settlement)? Inter-Tribal Violence: What were the principal reasons for inter-tribal conflict in Texas? How did inter-tribal conflict differ from that of violence between Native Americans and Euro-Americans? Inter-Tribal Cooperation: How did Native Americans use tribal alliances to combat the threat of white encroachment?

Inter-Ethnic Violence: Did Mexican civil authorities (1821 -35) respond differently to Indian raiding activities than Anglo-American civil authorities (1836 -1846)? Did Mexican residents and Anglo-American colonists respond differently to Native American raiding activities? What were the principal motives of Indian raiding activity (e. g. livestock, captives), and how did these motives vary according to individual tribe? What role did surveying parties (generally regarded as the vanguard of white encroachment) play in provoking conflict between Native Americans and Anglo-Americans? Were some tribes more inclined to react to the presence of surveying parties than others? What does this say about Native American notions of territorial sovereignty?

1820 Early 1820: A party of Lipan Apaches kill two residents of San Antonio. Bibliography: F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786 -1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 109. Early 1820: Lipan Apaches attack a small Spanish force on the Frio River, seizing all their horses and killing four soldiers. Bibliography: F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786 -1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 109. March: A party of Lipan Apaches, Tawakonis (Wichitas), and Comanches raid San Antonio, killing four Bexareños. Bibliography: F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786 -1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 110. Early April: A group of Tawakonis (Wichitas) launch a night time raid on San Antonio. Two Tawakonis are killed by a sentinel. Bibliography: F. Todd Smith, From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786 -1859 (Lincoln: University of Nebraska, 2006), 110. LOOKS LIKE DATA FIELDS TO ME

Step #1 Clustering data in the corpus to determine field elements for a database. (This is how I start creating structured metadata. ) (Don’t judge me. )

STEP #2 FORMATTING THE METADATA

WHAT DIGITAL CREATION NEEDED TO CREATE THE SITE • DH Librarian • Arc. GIS • GIS student • Google Earth • Metadata students • Google Maps (beta only) • Web developers • Drupal • Designer • Mapbox (current) https: //www. mapbox. com/ • Map. Tiler https: //www. maptiler. com/ • Leaflet http: //leafletjs. com/

THE SITE: HTTP: //LIBRARY. UTA. EDU/BORDERLAND/ • Geo. Coords • Map toggle • Dataset • Filters • Slider • Coming soon – heatmap and more!

THANK YOU FOR THE SUPPORT! Rebecca Bichel, Dean of Libraries Dr. Elizabeth Cawthon, Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts Dr. Kelly Visnak, Associate University Librarian for Scholarly Communication Many thanks for the start-up $$!! UTA Libraries Web. Devs Andrew Leverenz & Krystal Schenk, Digital Creation Designer Candy Mc. Cormic, Digital Creation GIS Guru Ali Behseresht, Assessment Simran Kaur & Sarabjeet Pulaha, Metadata Student Assistants Rafia Mirza, Digital Humanities Librarian Ben Huseman, Cartographic Archivist Center for Greater Southwestern Studies Elizabeth York, Center for SW Studies (Don’t leave us Bebe!) Willie Kingren, Graduate Research Assistant Brandon Blakeslee, Graduate Research Assistant They are giving us $$ for Phase II!