The Carrizo/Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, or Esto’k Gna in their own language, are indigenous to both sides of the Rio Grande river and throughout present-day South Texas, northern Mexico, eastern New Mexico; lands known as Somi Se’k.
Today, the 1,600-member nation, based south of San Antonio, is fighting for a future that resembles their past, one devoid of borders.
The original caretakers of South Texas, but lacking state or federal recognition as a nation, the Esto’k Gna people are fighting for their ancestors buried along the banks of the Rio Grande and in the Eli Jackson and Jackson Chanch Chapel cemeteries to spare them from desecration or exhumation by border wall construction.
Lying right next to the Jackson Ranch Methodist chapel and cemetery, the Eli Jackson cemetery is the resting place to over 150 people.
This includes relatives and ancestors of the Esto’k Gna; freedmen from the ranches existence as an outpost of the Underground Railroad; World War I, World War II, and Korean war veterans; and family members of those who still come to visit the cemetery today.
This diverse group of ancestors lying in these grounds has generated a broad coalition of descendants and allied resistors fighting to save their ancestors’ remains, history, and final resting place.
If you are one of the many folks that don't live on the border, but think you need a wall, maybe you should go live with them people for awhile before you 'off their heads', eh?
I know my dear readers don't indulge in the privilege that adhering to rule by force brings.
It's easy to yell off with their heads, but when it comes to cutting necks, do you got the guts?
Are you a true beliebing dupe?
Let's hope not.
