SUNY Press, 2011. — 183 p. The mediation of mockingbirds and the enduring significance of indigenous ceremonial speeches are deftly revealed in this brilliant analysis of ritual orations created and delivered by the O’odham people (also known as the Pima-Papago). Making their homes along rivers and washes across the arid expanses and mountains of the desert of southern Arizona...
New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1920. — 60 p. — (Indian Notes and Monographs. Vol. III, No. 4). This account of the fiesta of Vikita is based on personal observations among the Papago of Sonora, Mexico, in the summer of 1920. The legend of "Montezuma'' was related by Kia'had (Rainbow), a Papago living three miles north of the international boundary,...
Phoenix: Indian Tribal Series, 1972. — 106 p. The Tohono O’odham are a Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the U.S. state of Arizona and the Mexican state of Sonora. Tohono O’odham means "Desert People." The Tohono O’odham tribal government and most of the people have rejected the customary English name Papago, used by Europeans after being...
With photographs by John P. Schaefer. — Flagstaff, Arizona: Northland Press, 1981. — xii+140 p. — ISBN: 0-87358-287-X. This book, with its sensitively written text and powerful photographs, provides an appreciation of one of the lesser-known groups of Indians in the United States and Mexico. They call themselves O'odham, but to the world outside their reservation, which is the...
Franklin Watts, 1998. — 64 p. — (A First Book). — ISBN: 0-531-20326-3. Examines the history, culture, daily life, and current situation of the Tohono O'odham, whose name means "the Desert People."
San Francisco: North Point Press, 1987. — xvi+150 p. — ISBN: 0-86547-050-2. From mountain shrines to lowland oases, ethnobiologist Gary Nabhan takes us on a series of journeys with contemporary Papago Indians, the Tohono O'odham, or "Desert People." From these journeys we discover how much the Desert People know about the dynamics of their arid homeland in Arizona and Sonora,...
Salt Lake City, Utah: University of Utah Printing Services, 1984. — 44 p. The Man in the Maze. In the Beginning. The Land. Songs. Farming. Gathering Plants. Hunting. Housing. Dress. Utensils and Basketry. Games. The Family. Government. Village Ceremonies. Ceremonies for Personal Power. The Peaceful People.
Tucson, Arizona: The University of Arizona Press, 1973. — xxii+441 p. — ISBN: 0-8165-0420-2 (In Papago and English). O'othham Hoho'ok A'agitha are legends of the American language community whose self-designation is O'othham, the Papago and Pima. Hoho'ok A'agitha are stories about hoho'ok, creatures with extraordinary powers. How Everything Began. Animal Legends. Animal...
A Publication of The Education Division, U.S.Office of Indian Affairs, 1940. — 68 p. — (Sherman Pamphlets, No. 3). Who and Where. How and What. Life in the Village. Life in the Family. Life and the Gods. Papago and Pima Today.
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