Talk:Juan Seguín

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[edit] name

Can anyone provide a source to any reference to him as "Juan Sequin"? I've grown up in Texas and never seen or heard the Sequin variation of his name.

The reference has already been updated a long time ago but for any readers who are reading this and didn't know ...

His name is not "Sequin". This is a common anglophone mispelling. Nothing more.

--Mcorazao 22:24, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Burial

The article states that Seguín arranged for the defenders to be buried with military honors. Our other articles state that nearly all of them had been cremated en masse by Stanta Anna, so what was buried? Also, since the defenders were legally Mexicans, were these Mexican military honors that they recieved? 70.20.238.31 04:50, 16 January 2007 (UTC)

-my understanding is that Seguin scooped up some of the ashes, placed them in a wooden casket and had them buried. Texas did have a standing army at the time (or at least what it called one) so I would assume they received Rep. of Texas military honors. San Fernando Catherdral in San Antonio now contains a marble crypt that is supposed to hold the ashes. Also on commerce street there is a historical marker claiming to be the spot where Seguin originally buried the ashes.

[edit] Tejano?

The first sentence uses the term "tejano" to describe him. Why?

This has a bit of a racist connotation in this context. At this time there was no concept of "tejano" in any sense. At that time the ethnic/racial distinctions that we have today did not exist (although other distinctions did exist).

Apparently the distinction being pointed out here is that his family descended from the former Spanish colonies and not from the former English colonies as many of the other heros did. Although that distinction may be worth clarifying we should be more careful how this is worded. Perhaps just omit any mention of it in the first sentence and then explain better in discussing his background later in the text?

--Mcorazao 22:21, 16 July 2007 (UTC)

---As far as I know he was of French and Spanish heritage. His family migrated north from further south in Mexico. I believe his grandfather was from Aguascalientes----69.216.117.149 07:30, 17 October 2007 (UTC)