On July 20th

The July 20, 1881 surrender is documented. The site's documented history is the record the rest of the file stands on. The record holds it as fact — documented, not retold. Sources including 'Fort Buford' carry the record. The entry's timeline holds it; the lore holds the rest. The report keeps its place in the record.

~13,000 Japanese Americans were incarcerated at Gila River from 1942 to 1945; the site is on tribal land with restricted access. The documented date is 1942-07-20–1945-11-10. Gila River Relocation Center's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. It's verified history: the dossier's load-bearing detail. Sources including 'Gila River internment' ca

Gila River opened July 20, 1942, on Pima land south of Phoenix — about 13,000 incarcerees at peak, briefly the fourth-largest 'city' in Arizona. The canals its prisoners built still water the reservation, and the site — concrete slabs and canal banks in the desert — is one of the most intact camp landscapes left, accessible through the tribal district.