Missions, Presidios and Land Grants Learning Expedition

(Date and cost to be announced)

This day trip includes the Spanish mission at Tumacácori, the mission ruins at Guevavi and Calabasas, the Tubac Presidio, and the Canoa Land Grant.

Transportation, lunch, beverages, and snacks provided.

To Register:

• Contact Darlene Lizarraga by email or at 520-626-8381

Tentative Itinerary
(adjustments may be made; times are estimated and will vary slightly)

Your Guides

Michael Brescia, Ph.D. is associate curator of ethnohistory at Arizona State Museum and associate professor of history at the University of Arizona where he teaches courses on Mexico, comparative North America, and world history. He has conducted research in archives and rare book libraries in Mexico and Spain on the living legacies of Spanish water law in the southwestern United States and religious identities in colonial Mexico. He has published books that address the broader dimensions of the Mexican historical experience, including its more comparative features.

Dale Brenneman, Ph.D. is assistant curator of documentary history at Arizona State Museum in the Office of Ethnohistorical Research, where she researches the history of Native peoples of the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico as revealed in the Spanish colonial documentary record. She currently leads a team of graduate students and O’odham scholars in researching , transcribing, translating, and placing in historical context a large collection of Spanish-language documents detailing O’odham and Pee Posh interactions with Spaniards and Mexicans over a period of 200 years. This work, which will culminate in the online publication of transcriptions and translations, is conducted in collaboration with scholars and elders from the Tohono O’odham Nation.

Your Host

Arizona State Museum’s scholars and extensive collections are among the most significant resources in the world for the study of Southwest peoples. Arizona State Museum is Arizona’s premier research museum, the oldest and largest anthropology museum in the Southwest (est. 1893), home of the world's largest collections of Southwest Indian pottery and Southwest Indian basketry, and a Smithsonian Institution affiliate. Your support of our programs helps us continue our work. Thank you!

Comments from former trip participants

I'm thrilled by this trip—would love to take other similar trips. I learned more on this trip than I've learned in years. Thank you.

I was absolutely thrilled today to go to Guevavi as well as Tumacácori and the Presidio with experts. And seeing Canoa Ranch was really quite special.

Great job. The thoroughness and organization prior to the trip is very evident. ¡Gracias!

Image credits:
Mission San José de Tumacácori: Carmen Villa Prezelski
Dome, Mission San Jose de Tumacacori: Jerry Ingram, courtesy National Park Service
Others by ASM staff

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