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Apprehending Flows: Race and Police Power in the Conservancy Battles
Apprehending Flows: Race and Police Power in the Conservancy Battles
Left: Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District; map from 1928 Official Plan referenced in congressional hearings. There are copies in multiple archival collections, including Sophie Aberle Papers at CSWR and the BIA records in the Denver and Washington D.C. NARA locations.
Above: Sotero Ortiz Leavenworth mugshot. Ortiz was essentially a political prisoner of the BIA.
National Archives Kansas City
1930 Conservancy Celebration
1930 Conservancy Celebration
Photos from the 1930 Conservancy celebration. Albuquerque Museum Photograph Collection, items 1994-014-078 and 1994-014-081.
Construction and Celebration
Construction and Celebration
Advertisements in the Albuquerque Journal and New Mexico State Tribune.
Construction using dynamite and diesel powered machines, photos from MRGCD Archive.
1932 Conservancy celebration at Cochiti, photos from MRGCD Archive.
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