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Second, living back then in Texas, I recall hearing talk that the first Thanksgiving was actually along the Texas border, celebrated by an expedition led by Spanish explorer Juan de Onate and the natives of the region in 1598, more than 20 years before the 1621 get-together in Plymouth.
Smoke Signals: Thanksgiving by mail order Jim Shahin 2010
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Onate ordered that the left foot of the native American men be cut off.
Fear More of a Factor Than Hope as Israel Votes - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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Unable to handle the situation, Cristobal de Onate, the acting Governor and a henchman of Guzmán, was forced to call on the Viceroy for help.
"Bloody Guzman" 2006
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Unable to handle the situation, Cristobal de Onate, the acting Governor and a henchman of Guzmán, was forced to call on the Viceroy for help.
"Bloody Guzman" 2006
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This is the earliest and most famous of those, left in 1605 by Don Juan de Onate afraid my keyboard won't let me put the ~ over the n the leader of the initial Spanish colonization of New Mexico.
El Morro 2006
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This is the earliest and most famous of those, left in 1605 by Don Juan de Onate afraid my keyboard won't let me put the ~ over the n the leader of the initial Spanish colonization of New Mexico.
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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Onate of Zacatecas with 400 men, including commissary Father Alonso
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913
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Onate was plainly puzzled at the summons to attend the governor, and mixed with his perplexity was a very evident anxiety.
Bucky O'Connor William MacLeod Raine 1912
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Half the officers are with the enemy, among them the patriotic Colonel Onate, whom you see present.
Bucky O'Connor William MacLeod Raine 1912
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Onate was to be Secretary of State under Valdez, and this was the bait that had been dangled temptingly under his nose to induce a desertion of Megales.
Bucky O'Connor William MacLeod Raine 1912
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