' “We grew up thinking we were Hispanics because that’s what we were always being told,” said David Garza, 55, as he flipped chunks of cabrito on a wide charcoal grill outside an old family home in Brackettville, around 20 miles north of the Rio Grande, in February 2022. “It wasn’t until my adulthood I realized why [my parents] kept it from us. They were afraid of getting killed.” '

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The Bigger Picture: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and Texas’ own indigenous history

Houston Matters explores Martin Scorsese’s new film and learns about the Lipan Apache people of Texas

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