The Places

Homeland Maps

Although the region pictured here is commonly known today as the "borderlands" because of the prominence of the present international border between the U.S. and Mexico, this boundary represents only the most recent way of organizing space in the region. Many other ways of inhabiting this landscape existed in the past, from the home territories of Apache bands and Tohono O'odham villages to the missions and presidios (forts) of the Spanish and Mexican periods.

O'odham Map
O'odham Map
Mexican Map
Mexican Map
 Apache Map
Apache Map
American Map
American Map