This is a new forum for discussing pre-Civil War Texas history and a place to share news and announcements of events commemorating early Texas history. Ask question, contribute answers, exchange viewpoints. Write articles, book reviews or pen an old fashioned book report. TEXIAN. A word (in Spanish Tejano) describing both male and female citizens or the culture of the former province of Tejas, New Spain, the Texas section of the state of Coahuila y Tejas, Republic of Mexico, and the subsequent Republic of Texas. Government officials including Miguel Ramos Arispe, author of the Mexican Constitution of 1824, referred to the...