Dona Ana Sphere Project
- Label
- Dona Ana Sphere Project
- Principal Link
- donaanasphere.com
- Description
- The objective of the Dona Ana Sphere Project is to contribute towards a fuller understanding of both crisis and dispute resolution during natural disaster, war and military occupation. From 1828 to the 1850s, a series of floods devastated the mostly indigenous and mestizo communities of Paso Del Norte. This project will examine the strategies of the villagers of Dona Ana during the occupation of their village by the U.S. military. It will also examine the local Juez de Paz (Justice of the Peace) process in resolving the intra-village conflict precipitated by the flooding and inter-community migration. One of the key aims of this study is to understand, through diligent archival research, how the families of the Dona Ana Sphere negotiated and adapted to the political, economic and social realities of their time. Such a study may also reveal their tactics for the construction of a complicated peace.
- Creators
- Sonja Sonnenburg
- Contact Information
- sonja@sonnenburg.org
- Status
- inactive