Following the Nogales attack, Seman emphasizes how Mexican and American forces worked together to put an end to the Teresistas. This collaboration is significant because it shows that, despite its harshness toward Indigenous claims and mobility, the boundary is politically malleable for state authority. #hist416
@mdiaz2 This is one key example of how the border can shift from porous to solid to porous depending on power relations. How does this case compare to St. John's description of bilateral efforts to force Apache peoples onto reservations in the 1870s and 1880s? What had changed in terms of US-Mexican cooperation, if anything? #Hist416