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Indigenous surveyors and university geographers from the Mexico IndÃ-gena research team discuss community cadastral property records and new PROCEDE land certification maps of the Las Armas village (ejido), Mexico, showing Dario Hernández Reyes and Baldomero Hernández Medina, Geographer Peter Herlihy of the University of Kansas, indigenous field coordinator Alejandra Marcos Bautista, and Geographer Derek Smith of Carleton University (Canada).

Courtesy of Peter Herlihy

Peter Herlihy

Indigenous Teenek surveyor Simón Hernández (left) works with University of San Luis PotosÂ' (UASLP) graduate student researcher Aida Ramos Viera (right) to document the location of a farmers parcel in La Pila using high tech GPS (satellite positioning systems) with low tech sketch maps.

Courtesy of Peter Herlihy

Initial training of student researchers for the Mexico IndÃ-gena research team in the Huasteca region, San Luis PotosÃ-, Mexico, showing (L-R) undergrad student Gerardo López Roque, Geographer Dr. Carlos Contreras, grad student Aida Ramos Viera, and undergad Marta Elena RamÃ-rez of the University of San Luis PotosÃ-, and Vicki Tinnon Brock of Kansas State University.

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Geography graduate student researcher Aida Ramos Viera (left) from the University of San Luis PotosÃ- (UASLP) interviews Sr. Octaviano Mejia Hernández about the parcel he farms in the La Pila village (ejido) in the Huasteca region, Mexico.

Courtesy of Peter Herlihy

Mexico IndÃ-gena research team and villagers from the Las Armas ejido plot the location of an archeological site (elevated soils to back left in photo) surrounded by sugar cane plots and secondary forest in the Huasteca region, Mexico.

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Indigenous surveyor Timoteo Hernandez Hernández (left) and graduate student researcher Aida Ramos Viera of the University of San Lusi PotosÃ- (UASLP) use GPS satellite-location technology with hand-drawn sketch maps to plot the location of a well in the community of La Lima in the Huasteca region of north central Mexico. The Mexico IndÃ-gena project has nine indigenous surveyors working with four university students in four distinct parts of the Huasteca region of San Luis PotosÃ- State, Mexico.

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Sr. Octaviano Mejia Hernandez, an indigenous Teenek farmer from La Pila village (ejido) in the Huasteca region, shows the research team his parcel boundaries that he wants the team can compare with the new PROCEDE property records.

Courtesy of Peter Herlihy

Indigenous Nahua surveyor, Dario Hernandez Reyes, of Cuatlamayan works on his community's map together with (clockwise) the project's indigenous field coordinator Alejandra Marcos Bautista, Anthropologist Anuschka van't Hooft of the University of San Luis PotosÃ- (UASLP), and Geographer Derek Smith of Carleton University, Canada.

Courtesy of Peter Herlihy