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Spiritual Borderlands
By Oscar Godinez-Avila
With funding support from Brigham Young University's Charles Redd Center for Western Studies
Agricultural labor demands began drawing significant numbers of ethnic Mexicans into Northern Colorado during the early 1900s,
especially as the sugar beet industry reached its peak. Local historians have largely examined the migration through the lenses
of economy, race, and more recently, community. This project enriches the human-environmental history of Northern Colorado by asking:
How did ethnic Mexican migration into Northern Colorado change the spiritual landscape?