Barrera and a group of Tejano community leaders formed the Tejano Monument, Inc. Over the next eleven years, Tejano Monument, Inc. They selected engineer Jose I. Guerra and architect Jaime Beaman of Austin, Texas to plan the design and artist Armando Hinojosa of Laredo, Texas to sculpt the bronze and granite monument. Because HCR determined that the monument be entirely funded by private donations, a large part of Tejano Monument, Inc. There were also fundraising campaigns such as a gala and the sale of limited edition Tejano Monument statuettes.
Due in part to the efforts of Tejano Monument, Inc. In , the 81st Legislature passed House Bill , which authorized placement of the Tejano Monument on the south lawn, and Governor Perry later signed the bill. Finally, on March 29, , the Tejano Monument was unveiled at a public ceremony attended by hundreds of visitors. The records documents the activities of Tejano Monument, Inc. The documents within each series are most often arranged alphabetically, but some are arranged chronologically due to the nature of their content.
These include the correspondence, news articles, and board meeting materials. It largely contains materials created for the March 29, unveiling of the monument, such as promotional publications, invitations, media, and a commemorative bag. At square feet, the monument is among the largest on the Capitol grounds. Mounted on a ton slab of pink granite, bronze statues depict a Spanish explorer, a vaquero on his Spanish mustang, a longhorn bull and cow and a family of settlers.
I am humbled by the completion of this monument and thankful that I helped provide the stimulus that led to its construction, but I had help, lots of it. Since when I first saw the Capitol grounds, I was impressed with the monuments and its beautiful grounds.
But it was not until the year that I noticed that there was something missing. Between and , I had studied our local Texas history and genealogy in South Texas, which was essentially missing from our school textbooks.
We had never been taught about the first years of Texas history — history that I learned on my own between those years. The summer of , I went to a medical meeting in Austin with my wife and while driving around the Capitol, it suddenly dawned on me that there were at least years of Texas history not represented in the 31 statues and monuments around our State Capitol. Kino Flores of Mission, to see if I had missed anything. He called back and said I had not. Two weeks later I met with Rep.
Flores and his staff to see if there was any possibility of erecting a monument to include Tejano history on our Capitol grounds. After checking with fellow legislators he said the sentiments were positive and that we should go ahead with the idea. I immediately set about getting a group of historians, educators, and community leaders together to see about the possibility of planning the type of monument.
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