Join the Arizona Historical Society and Dr. Deni Seymour for an installment of AHS Summer History Talks: Spanish Period in Arizona! This is a virtual program.

With the addition of the 13th site to the Coronado Expedition route through Arizona it’s safe to say that our understanding of the expedition has grown exponentially. Six different site types have now been defined along Arizona’s Coronado expedition routes, including the main route between Nogales and the Gila River. Even the relatively small overnight encampments exhibit an informative array of evidence. When compared to the largest site (the settlement of San Geronimo III or suya), a rich narrative about the expedition as a whole emerges.

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Join the Arizona Historical Society and Dr. Paul Conrad for an installment of AHS Summer History Talks: Spanish Period in Arizona! This is a virtual program.

This presentation will consider the history and legacies of Spanish colonialism in Arizona and the Southwest from the vantage point of Apache history. Apache (Ndé) peoples are known for their independence from and resistance to Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. governance. Yet colonial efforts to subjugate them—including through long-distance forced migrations–were also deeply impactful to their communities. Dr. Paul Conrad will discuss this history through the stories of specific individuals and the broader themes their life experiences reveal.

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Join the Arizona Historical Society and Dr. Nick Myers for an installment of AHS Summer History Talks: Spanish Period in Arizona!

In 1765, as part of a royal inspection of the Kingdom of New Spain, Visitador General José de Gàlvez travelled to the far northern reaches of Spanish colonization in North America. Gálvez was charged with enacting fundamental reforms in the systems of defense and taxation across the Viceroyalty as a whole. This talk will relate the strange story of the royal visita to the northern frontier and uncover the roots of the regions peculiarity, wildly diverse population, and prevalence of political autonomy that characterized the western portion of today’s U.S.-Mexico Borderlands in the Spanish Colonial Era.

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