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	Chamizal Disputes
		The Chamizal National Memorial is a multicultural artistic center on South Marcial Street in El Paso.
		Although the Chamizal was initially designed to commemorate the signing of the Chamizal Treaty of 1963, it has become a unit of the National Park Service that is dedicated to the arts.
		The Chamizal National Memorial on the U.S. side was created to celebrate the blending of two cultures.
	www.epcc.edu /ftp/Homes/monicaw/borderlands/14_chamizal_dispute.htm (1029 words)

	A Bibliography of the Chamizal
		The map shows the Chamizal’s resolution between Mexico and U.S. ach country was eager to retain the river as boundary and to have all its territory on one side of the channel.
		The remaining 15 percent, 113.16 acres, was required for the Chamizal Channel, a port of entry, relocation of the Texas and Pacific, Santa Fe, and Southern Pacific railroads, and the relocation of the principal irrigation canal.
		However he was confident that the dispute did not really have the negative impact that the newspapers led you to believe.
	blue.utb.edu /localhistory/chamizal.htm (2527 words)

	Chamizal National Memorial (DesertUSA)
		Chamizal National Memorial commemorates the harmonious settlement of a 100-year boundary dispute between Mexico and the United States.
		The Chamizal Treaty of 1963 was a milestone in the diplomatic relations between the two countries sharing one border.
		The Chamizal sponsors the annual Siglo de Oro Drama festival and the Zarzuela festival which are free to the public.
	www.desertusa.com /cham/cham.html (444 words)

	Chamizal National Memorial - US-Parks.com
		The Chamizal Treaty of 1963 was a milestone in diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States.
		Chamizal National Memorial serves as an open door to increase visitor awareness to continually value cooperation, diplomacy and cultural values as a basic means to conflict resolution.
		Chamizal provides visitors with ample opportunity to better understand, not only other cultures, but their own cultural roots as well.
	www.us-parks.com /chamizal/index.html (167 words)

	Texas Public Lands: Chamizal National Memorial
		Chamizal National Memorial was established to commemorate this treaty which resulted in the peaceful settlement of a century-long boundary dispute between the neighboring countries.
		Far more than mere acreage, Chamizal is an idea, a dynamic process, dedicated to furthering the spirit of understanding and goodwill between two nations that share one border.
		Utilizing the visual, literary and performing arts as a medium of interchange, Chamizal serves as an open door to help people better understand not only other cultures, but their own cultural roots as well.
	www.biggamehunt.net /sections/Texas/public_lands/Chamizal_National_Memorial.html (202 words)

	West's Encyclopedia of American Law \| Chamizal Tract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A description of the 1895 title dispute between the United States and Mexico that arose over a tract of land in El Paso, Texas, known as "El Chamizal."
		The Boundary Commission was unable to agree on a boundary line and a convention was signed by the two governments on June 24, 1910, establishing another commission to decide the issue.
		Because the new commission departed from the terms of submission and because of disturbed conditions in Mexico, no further action was taken until the conclusion of a treaty in 1963 that divided the disputed territory between the two countries.
	law.enotes.com /wests-law-encyclopedia/chamizal-tract/print (106 words)

	JFK & The Chamizal
		The word Chamizal means a place where river thicket plants grew in frequently flooded ground.
		It is built on the piece of land that Mexico acquired as a settlement of the treaty dispute.
		The Chamizal National Memorial is a very unusual park in the national park system, focusing on arts and education of multicultural learning and further understanding.
	austin.episd.org /ephistory/quadchamizal1.htm (772 words)

	El Paso. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000
		After the U.S.-Mex. border was set, settlement increased, and the coming of the RR in 1881 prefaced the arrival of cowboys, exiles, border traders, and adventurers to the city.
		As a result of the settlement in 1963 of the Chamizal border dispute, a small area of El Paso was transferred to Mexico.
		The city is the seat of the Univ. of Texas (Sun Bowl football stadium) at El Paso and El Paso Community Col.; large Fort Bliss and air defense center extends from city center NE into N.Mex.; a large hosp.; and the White Sands Missile Range are in El Paso’s vicinity.
	www.bartleby.com /69/14/E01514.html (407 words)

	Chamizal National Memorial - Chamizal National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service)
		The Chamizal Convention of 1963 was a milestone in diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States.
		Chamizal National Memorial was established to commemorate this treaty which resulted in the peaceful settlement of a century-long boundary dispute.
		Chamizal National Memorial is named after a plant.
	www.nps.gov /cham (144 words)

	Chamizal dispute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		That same month, three were killed and over 20 displaced in a land dispute between the Tzeltal Maya settlements of El Chamizal and Laguna Semental on the...
		The Chamizal dispute was a conflict over the border between Mexico and the United States that is marked by the Rio Grande.
		The river had shifted since it was first surveyed in 1852, leaving the two countries unclear as to which land belonged on which side.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/c/ch/chamizal_dispute.html (104 words)

	Lyndon B. Johnson: Remarks in El Paso at a Ceremony Marking the Settlement of the Chamizal Dispute. - ...
		Lyndon B. Johnson: Remarks in El Paso at a Ceremony Marking the Settlement of the Chamizal Dispute.
		Mateos, let me say: Let Chamizal stand as a symbol to all the world that the most troublesome of problems can yield to the tools of peace.
		The Soviet Union is increasingly absorbed in the disappointments of its economy and disputes with former comrades.
	www.presidency.ucsb.edu /ws/print.php?pid=26527 (2646 words)

	Relocating Eden
		"The United States denied that the boundary treaties of 1848 and 1853 established a fixed line and contended the treaty of 1884 was retroactive to any event, and applied to the Chamizal dispute, and that this treaty was merely declaratory of the general rule of international law.
		I held the commission was not empowered by the two governments to divide the Chamizal tract but was called upon to render a clean-cut decision in favor of one or the other government.
		Copies of all printed reports and maps and all proceedings published by both governments with respect to the Chamizal Arbitration were presented by Brigadier General A. Mills to the El Paso Carnegie Library.
	www.surveyhistory.org /relocating_eden1.htm (507 words)

	BrownPride.com : Murals
		Vistors to Chamizal are greeted by Carlos Flores' bold, bright depictions of the history and culture of two nations.
		The Chamizal National Memorial is near the Cordova Bridge in south central El Paso, El Paso County.
		The 54.9-acre park, which commemorates the peaceful settlement of a ninety-nine-year-old boundary dispute between the United States and Mexico (search CHAMIZAL DISPUTE), is on part of the 193-acre site acquired from Mexico in the Chamizal settlement in 1963.
	www.brownpride.com /murals/murals.asp?a=chamizal/index (371 words)

	El Paso Times - Chamizal dispute ends
		Mexico, however, disputed that claim, and the nations finally agreed in 1884 that as long as the river changed gradually, so would the boundary, but if instead it changed rapidly, the boundary stayed with the original riverbed.
		But the original dispute over El Chamizal would not be resolved for almost a century.
		The dispute curtailed the development of the land for decades, until President John F. Kennedy and Mexican President Adolfo López Mateos agreed to accept the original arbitration ruling.
	www.elpasotimes.com /125/ci_3767491 (222 words)

	About Us (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		This Treaty entrusts the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) with the application of its terms, the regulation and exercise of the rights and obligations which the two Governments assumed therunder, and the settlement of all disputes to which its observance and execution may give rise.
		The Convention provided for the relocation of the IBWC of the 4.4 miles (7 km) of the channel of the Rio Grande so as to transfer a net amount of 437.18 acres (176.92 hectares) from the north to the south side of the river.
		President Lyndon Johnson met Mexican President Adolfo Lopez Mateos in El Paso on September 24, 1964 to commemorate the ratification of the Chamizal Convention.
	www.ibwc.state.gov /html/about_us.html (1926 words)

	New Page 1
		The Chamizal Agreement that verified the boundary and the exact course of the Rio Grande through the city was signed in 1967.
		The Chamizal dispute was a border conflict over about 600 acres on the U.S. Mexican border between El Paso and Cindad Juarez Chinhuahua.
		The agreement awarded to Mexico 366 acres of the Chamizal area and 71 acres east of the adjacent Cordova Island.
	www.uwec.edu /freitard/GroupAndMinority/ElPaso/History/index.htm (757 words)

	Chamizal Border Dispute - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Chamizal Border Dispute - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Chamizal Border Dispute, dispute between the United States and Mexico over a strip of land about 240 hectares (600 acres) in size, known as the El...
		Ciudad Juárez was founded late in the 17th century and was later renamed in honour of the Mexican president Benito Pablo Juárez, who had made it his...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Chamizal_Border_Dispute.html (122 words)

	United States - Mexico (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		From 1852 to 1868 a combination of erosion and alosive action changed the course of the river and caused a border dispute between the United States and Mexico that was Finally settled only in 1964.
		The United States of Mexico issued a stamp in 1964 commemorating the restoration of El Chamizal (the disputed area which takes its name from a desert plant) to Mexico, and to honor President John F. Kennedy.
		The background of the stamp shows a map outlining the Chamizal District and the new border.
	sio.midco.net /dansmapstamps/usmex.htm (191 words)

	Chamizal Theme Statement
		The Chamizal National Memorial commemorates the Chamizal Treaty of 1963 which resolved a century old boundary dispute between Mexico and the United States.
		By nurturing both the performing and the visual arts, Chamizal National Memorial celebrates the cultures and the possibilities of cooperation among countries sharing a common boundary.
		The Chamizal National Memorial facilities and grounds are staffed, operated, and protected by National Park Service employees -- rangers, theater technicians, guards, maintainance crews, and administrative specialists.
	www.whc.net /bhsdance/html/chamizal.html (268 words)

	Chamizal National Memorial \| Museum/Attraction Review \| El Paso \| Frommers.com
		Parcels of land were exchanged, residents and businesses uprooted, and a permanent, concrete channel was constructed to signify a more predictable boundary.
		The 55-acre park at the Chamizal National Memorial commemorates the dispute's settlement with a bevy of facilities: 2 miles of foot trails, an outdoor amphitheater that hosts many free concerts, and a visitor center/museum (expect to spend 30 min.
		There is also a walkway to the adjacent Bridge of the Americas leading to the memorial's Mexican counterpart, Parque Chamizal, with an anthropology museum and an amusement park in Ciudad Juárez.
	www.frommers.com /destinations/elpaso/A28538.html (330 words)

	State of the Union Address Part I by William Howard Taft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Simultaneously came the news that the boundary dispute between Peru and Ecuador had entered upon a stage of amicable settlement.
		The position of the United States in reference to the Tacna—Arica dispute between Chile and Peru has been one of nonintervention, but one of friendly influence and pacific counsel throughout the period during which the dispute in question has been the subject of interchange of views between this Government and the two Governments immediately concerned.
		Much has been accomplished, and while the final solution of the dispute is not immediate, the favorable attitude lately assumed by the Mexican Government encourages the hope that this troublesome question will be satisfactorily and definitively settled at an early day.
	teachingamericanhistory.org /library/index.asp?documentprint=1324 (7949 words)

	Treaties (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The 1944 treaty also changed the name of the IBC to the International Boundary And Water Commission (IBWC), and in Article 3 the two governments entrusted the IBWC to give preferential attention to the solution of all border sanitation problems.
		The Chamizal Convention of August 29, 1963 resolved the 100 year old boundary problems at El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, known as the Chamizal Dispute.
		The Commission relocated and concrete-lined 4.4 miles of the channel of the Rio Grande so as to transfer 437 acres to Mexico.
	www.ibwc.state.gov /html/treaties.html (470 words)

	Lyndon B. Johnson: Remarks in El Paso at a Ceremony Marking the Settlement of the Chamizal Dispute.
		Jim Borwick and Dr. Rafee Che Kassim at Project Whistlestop for critical assistance in the implementation of the search function, and to Scott Roley at the Truman Library for facilitating this collaboration.
		Note: The ceremony was held at the Bowie High School Stadium in El Paso, Tex., where President Johnson and President Adolfo Lopez Mateos of Mexico unveiled a marker indicating the new boundary of the Chamizal tract.
		The convention between the United States and Mexico for the solution of the problem of the Chamizal Border was concluded at Mexico City on August 29, 1963.
	www.presidency.ucsb.edu /ws/index.php?pid=26527 (2949 words)

	Chamizal National Memorial: National Parks and Monuments at Canadian Content
		Chamizal National Memorial: National Parks and Monuments at Canadian Content
		Additional Information: The Chamizal Convention was a milestone in diplomatic relations between Mexico and the United States in 1963.
		Chamizal National Memorial was established to commemorate this treaty which resulted in the peaceful settlement of a century-long boundary disput
	www.canadiancontent.net /dir/Top/Regional/North_America/United_States/Texas/Travel_and_Tourism/Parks/National_Parks_and_Monuments/Chamizal_National_Memorial (179 words)

	Desert Diary, 9 Oct 2002--Chamizal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In one area near El Paso, the river slowly migrated southward, leaving what had been Mexican land north of the river--and north of its deepest channel.
		This area became known as the Chamizal and was a thorn in the relationship between Mexico and the United States from the late 1800s until 1963, when the Chamizal Treaty was signed.
		Today, parks in Mexico and the United States commemorate the peaceful settlement by focusing on the arts, the universal language.
	museum.utep.edu /archive/history/DDchamizal.htm (224 words)

	TIME.com: Bending the River -- Jul 26, 1963 -- Page 1
		Mexico still claimed the land, known as El Chamizal, but the U.S. said no: the border runs where the Rio Grande runs.
		In 1911, the angry Chamizal dispute was put to international arbitration.
		A dingy string of stockyards, tenements and small factories near the bridges between El Paso and Ciudad Juárez, El Chamizal hardly seems worth the fuss.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,870255,00.html (656 words)

	Chamizal National Memorial - History & Culture (U.S. National Park Service)
		Chamizal National Memorial - History and Culture (U.S. National Park Service)
		a five-minute video discussing the history of the Chamizal dispute and its resolution
		Video de la historía del Chamizal (Por favor tenga paciencia.
	www.nps.gov /cham/historyculture/index.htm (137 words)

	CE 397 Transboundary Water Resources - US-Mexico Water Issues
		Changed the name of the IBC to the International Boundary And Water Commission IBWC (in Spanish Comisión Internacional de Límites y Aguas CILA), and entrusted the IBWC to give preferential attention to the solution of all border sanitation problems (in Article 3).
		The Chamizal Convention resolved an old boundary problem at El Paso, Texas/Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, known as the Chamizal Dispute.
		The Commission relocated and concrete-lined 4.4 miles (7.1 km) of the channel of the Rio Grande so as to transfer 437 acres (176.8 ha) to Mexico.
	www.ce.utexas.edu /prof/mckinney/ce397/Topics/US-Mex/US-Mex(2003).htm (2171 words)

	History Lessons
		The National Park Service operates the memorial on land once claimed by México as part of a decades-long dispute over the international boundary.
		A similar park in Juárez lies across the Rio Grande, whose shifting nature in earlier years triggered the dispute.
		The visitors center has an exhibit on the history of the Chamizal dispute, including a video presentation.
	www.epscene.com /epshistory.html (2137 words)

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