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Looking Back: The Lipan Apaches

By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press press@portisabelsouthpadre.com The native people known as the Lipan Apaches, the easternmost group of the indigenous Apache, were a resilient and adaptive tribe whose territory spanned through much of the what is now the American southwest. All Apaches belong to southern region of the widely dispersed Athabaskan language family. Though …

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Origins of Spring Break

By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press press@portisabelsouthpadre.com February 26, 2015 It’s been known by many different names: March break, Easter holiday, spring vacation or even somewhat ironically, study week. Nowadays, however, it’s more commonly known by just one: Spring Break. Usually occurring in the middle of March, it’s a period when colleges and universities across …

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Looking Back: Coahuitecan people

By ESTEVAN MEDRANO Port Isabel-South Padre Press press@portisabelsouthpadre.com January 15, 2015 Prior to the monumental arrival of the Spaniards in the 16th century, hundreds of small inland tribes collectively known as the Coahuitecans— a name derived from the Mexican state of Coahuila— lived in the lower region of Texas and northern Mexico, including what is now …

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