Colonial relationality in The Land of Fresh Water from 1718 to 1989

As part of my interdisciplinary dissertation project, I traveled to the Palacio de Lecumberri, a former prison decommissioned in 1976, houses Mexican colonial documents about The Land of Fresh Water (TLOFW).1 This Palacio, which became the home of the Archivo General de la Nación (AGN) in 1980, was my second home this 2024 summer as I furthered my indexing of colonial documents about TLOFW in order to gain insight about maize and land tenure histories of this rural village where I also conduct ethnographic research. With support of the CLAS Tinker Grant, I was able to catalog almost 40 colonial documents about TLOFW that will be used for my historiography of TLOFW and other parts of my dissertation.