The City of San Antonio seal was designed in 1925 by Johannes C. Scholze, a resident of San Antonio. Scholze created a wood carving that includes an Alamo at the top, the Lone Star of Texas, and the words “Libertatis Cunabula” which is Latin for “Cradle of Liberty.”
How to Write a Class Land Acknowledgement Who are we? Where are we from? Acknowledge the land (this is where we used the words that we now understood) What things do we appreciate about this land? What can we promise to do for the land? What is our commitment?
Examples of land acknowledgements: ``We uplift, honor, and speak the traditional names of the land and people to remind this community and all other visitors, that these peoples did, and do still exist. Without their committed stewardship, we would not be enjoying this place today.'' -Seeing Sovereignty.
The National Park Service, San Antonio Missions National Historical Park acknowledges the San Antonio River as Yanaguana (“Spirit Waters” in Payaya) and the landscape we now call San Antonio, Texas as the ancestral homeland of numerous, distinct indigenous peoples since time immemorial whose direct descendants are ...