The Wends of Texas represent a small Slavic group of people who have never had an independent nation and who have undergone a double assimilation in Texas.
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Known as Sorbs or Lusatian Serbs, Wends have lived in Lusatia, Eastern Germany, as a recognizable group from the Middle Ages until today. Just before 1850 some Wendish families emigrated to Australia; then, hearing of German settlement in Texas, a few Wends came to Austin County. In 1853 about 35 Wends entered Galveston to settle in New Ulm and Industry.
The only larger group of Wends ever to leave Europe was a congregation of Lutherans led by Johann Kilian. This group, decimated by cholera in Liverpool and yellow fever in Galveston, eventually settled in present Lee County, where Johann Dube and Carl Lehmann had purchased a league of land. Johann Kilian’s two-room house served as the church, and the settlers initially lived in dugouts. By 1860 a community named Serbin warranted a post office. The settlement grew until 1871, when a new railroad turned Giddings into the population center for the area.
Life for the first generation was hard, and the Wends were conservative. Dancing and secular music were considered inappropriate activities; the main job was making a living, not preserving tradition. Since they came from Germany, most Wends lived among already-established Germans in Texas. Many Texas Wends simply consider themselves German, but in the Serbin area, considerable identity has been maintained through a revival of interest in earlier Wendish characteristics….
The community at Serbin holds an annual Wendish Fest and extends a welcome, Witajcže K’nam, to visitors. During the affair church services are conducted in German and English, a Czech band may play, and corn-shucking contests are held. Some of the local descendants dress in European Wendish costume.
http://www.texancultures.utsa.edu/publications/texansoneandall/wendish.htm
The Slavic speaking Wends (like the words Welsh and Walloon, Wend is a Germanic name meaning “foreigner”) extended from the Balkans, up through Hungary and German speaking Europe, into the Norse nations. One of the titles of the Swedish and Danish rulers was “King of the Wends.” (The image shows a Wendish woman from Denmark). Berlin, like many other German place names, is thought to be Slavic in origin. An unrelated ethnic group were the Prussians, who were related to the Baltic peoples of Latvia and Lithuania, and whose descendants persist in pockets of eastern Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.
The distinctive sound of Tejano music comes from the accordions which were brought by German immigrants to Texas.