International Collaboration Conserves Indigenous History in Mexico
- Jun 9, 2020
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An international team of archivists and historians has successfully completed the digitization and cataloging of 194 libros de hijuelas, or deed books, that record statewide privatization of indigenous lands in nineteenth-century Michoacán, Mexico. The project, titled “Conserving Indigenous Memories of Land Privatisation in Mexico: Michoacán’s Libros de Hijuelas, 1719–1929,” was funded by a grant from the British Library’s Endangered Archives Programme.
From 2016 through 2018, the LLILAS Benson Digital Initiatives team worked with UT history professor Matthew Butler and a team of historians and researchers from Texas and Mexico to digitize the deed books.
Read the full article from LLILAS Benson.
