Program

Research Programs: State and Local and Regional Studies

Period of Performance

1/1/1981 - 5/31/1982

Funding Totals

$37,000.00 (approved)
$37,000.00 (awarded)


Social History of the Colonias of the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas

FAIN: RS-*0223-81

Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois (Champaign, IL 61801-3620)
Douglas S. Butterworth (Project Director: March 1980 to October 1990)

To support library, archival, and oral history research for a book-length ethnohistory of the "colonias," isolated rural settlements of Spanish speakers in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas.