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DOCUMENT Citation Only Edward Gonzalez-Tennant.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "In the Sticks but Not in the Weeds II: Historical Whitewashing and Modern Reimagining of Rural America’s Fantasy Past", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Anglo settlement of the Rio Grande Valley began in the late 19th and early 20th century. Part of this colonization involved the whitewashing of the region’s history, including the erasure of Tejano communities, populated by descendants of earlier Spanish,...