Dr. Tom Sheridan Lecture – Tucson, a Historically Multi-Ethnic Community

Dr. Tom Sheridan – Tucson, a Historically Multi-Ethnic Community
Saturday, July 12 at 7 pm
Presidio Museum Territorial Patio

Dr. Tom Sheridan will discuss the historically multi-ethnic community of Tucson. He will share a brief history of the O’odham at San Xavier, the Spanish presidio and its related settlers, the Apache, and the so-called “Apaches Mansos” that were settled north of the presidio beginning in the 1790s.

Dr. Tom Sheridan, Ph.D., is a Research Anthropologist at the Southwest Center and Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. He directed the Mexican Heritage Project at the Arizona Historical Society from 1982-1984 and was director of the Office of Ethnohistorical Research at the Arizona State Museum from 1997 to 2003. He was Curator of Ethnohistory and Director of the Office of Ethnohistorical Research at the Arizona State Museum from 1984 to 2003. He is also a well-known author who has written several books on the southwest including Arizona: A History, Los Tucsonenses: The Mexican Community in Tucson, 1854-1941, and A History of the Southwest: The Land and its People.

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