Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments Border Citizens: The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona began as a dissertation at the University of Texas at Austin, where I had the pleasure of working with an extraordinary group of scholars. I wish to thank Neil Foley, my dissertation supervisor, for engaging me in hours of discussion as I developed my ideas, conducted research, and wrote and rewrote drafts of the manuscript. Special thanks also go to my dissertation committee, Gunther Peck, David Montejano, Pauline Turner Strong, and James Sibury, who helped me to grow as a historian and offered insightful critiques of seminar papers and dissertation chapters. I thank my fellow students at the University of Texas who took time to read and comment on many of the chapters—especially Sean Kelley, Marc McLeod, Matt Childs, Hal Langfur, Brian Larkin, and Leilah Danielson. At Northern Arizona University I have continued to benefit greatly from the insights and support of colleagues and friends. Susan Deeds, in particular , took time out of an extremely busy schedule to read and comment on chapters and to write letters of support as I sought external funding to complete the manuscript. Many other members of the NAU faculty have also offered their support, and in the process have become enduring friends. I especially thank Sara Alemán, Sanjam Ahluwalia, Mike Amundson, Jeff Berglund, Monica Brown, Jennifer Denetdale, Sanjay Joshi, Cynthia and Peter Kosso, Scott Reese, Gioia Woods, and Miguel Vásquez. I also deeply appreciate the support of Aaron Cohen, Raquel Rotnes, and Jerry Thull, who have provided a much-needed refuge from academic life in Flagstaff. I owe a special debt to those who shared with me their own experiences of living in Arizona’s borderlands. Octaviana Trujillo taught me a great deal xii border citizens about Yaqui history and culture, both through personal conversations and by allowing me to sit in on her class in Guadalupe. Special thanks also to Dolores Huerta, who agreed to talk with me about her career as an activist at the end of a long day of energizing speeches and meetings at Northern Arizona University. Finally, thanks to Gabriel and Frances Alvarez, Tomasa Carpio, Esther and Frank Cota, Margo Cowan, Jimmy Molina, Henry Ramón, and Barbara Valencia, all of whom gave me new perspectives on the region I grew up in. I could not have written this book without the staffs at numerous libraries and archives, especially the Special Collections at the University of Arizona; the Hayden Library at Arizona State University; the Arizona Historical Society in Tucson and Tempe; the Arizona State Museum in Tucson ; the National Archives at Laguna Niguel, California; the Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin; the Salt River Archives in Tempe; and the Venito García Library in Sells, on the Tohono O’odham reservation. I give special thanks to Christín Marin and Patricia Etter for helping me navigate my way through the rich resources at the Chicano Research Collection and Labriola Center at Arizona State University ; to David Shaul at the Venito García Library; and to Lisa Gezelter at both the Arizona Collection at ASU and the National Archives at Laguna Niguel. The staff of the Edwin J. Foscue Map Library, GIS Section, Southern Methodist University, also provided critical help in the production of all the maps that appear in this book. At the dissertation and book stages, my work has benefited greatly from the financial support of several institutions. While I was a student at the University of Texas, a Thematic University Fellowship from the Graduate School and the Dora Bonham Fund and Walter Prescott Webb Dissertation Fellowship from the History Department were invaluable. I also thank the Southwest Center at the University of Arizona, which awarded me a Morris Udall research grant so that I could travel to Tucson to use their archival collections. At Northern Arizona University, two intramural research grants allowed me to conduct additional research as I revised my dissertation into a book. A residential fellowship at the Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University provided me time away from teaching and the intellectual space to transform a rough draft of the manuscript into a book. Thanks to David Weber, who carefully read every page and helped me to rethink my suppositions and refine my prose. Thanks also to Andrea Boardman and Ruth Ann Elmore for making my move and my stay in Dallas a pleasant one. I also am extremely grateful...