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Historical markers tell the tale of Texas history

"Not to mention a roadside roll call of mostly forgotten massacres that would be global sensations if they happened today." Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/02/19/3746021/texas-historical-markers-offer.html#storylink=cpy Genocide is deep in the dark heart of Texas. Texas highways have more monuments and plaques, aka ‘road-side history’, which document the settler Texan society’s methods for accumulating capital: land, raw resources, and subjugated labour to refine and distribute earth and bodies as commodities into the market.  In a most sinister and brazen way, Texas highways and roads demonstrate an obsession to glorifying killing societies who got away with atrocity and the mass theft, chilling overthrow, and illegitimate seizure of Indigenous peoples’ sovereign territories, knowledge systems, and raw resources.  Exterminated, mutilated, decapitated, lynched, burned, and deported ‘Indians’ and ‘Mexicans’ is a catch all for anti-Indigenous nation