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Longtime residents of the Sonoran Desert, the Tohono Oodham people have spent centuries living off the landa land that most modern citizens of southern Arizona consider totally inhospitable. Ethnobotanist Gary Nabhan has lived with the Tohono Oodham, long known as the Papagos, observing the delicate balance between these people and their environment. Bringing Oodham voices to the page at every turn, he writes elegantly of how they husband scant water supplies, grow crops, and utilize wild edible foods. Woven through his account are coyote tales, Oodham childrens impressions of the desert, and observations on the political problems that come with living on both sides of an international border. Whether visiting a sacred cave in the Baboquivari Mountains or attending a saguaro wine-drinking ceremony, Nabhan conveys the everyday life and extraordinary perseverance of these desert people in a book that has become a contemporary classic of environmental literature.
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There are many students of the desert and Papago culture who have gone before me,and I have learned from them as well as from many good people on the reservationand in northern Mexico. These notes are designed to acquaint readers with the literatureI have quoted and drawn upon, and to present more technical observations that friendsand I have made in the field. All Papago words are written in the orthography formallysupported by the tribe, and first published by Albert Alvarez and Kenneth Hale, Towarda Manual of Papago Grammar, International Journal of Linguistics 36:2 (1970), 83-97. As noted in Acknowledgments, nearly all the names of Papago individuals mentioned are fictitious, because the characters presented here are composites.
| The introductory quote is from Father Thomas Merton, Raids on the Unspeakable (New York: New Directions, 1964), p. 9. | Page xv |
| THE DESERT SMELLS LIKE RAIN: AN OVERTURE Jose Panchos Mockingbird Speech is printed in full, in Papago and English, in theexcellent collection of Papago texts: Ruth M. Underhill, Donald M. Bahr, BaptistoLopez, Jose Pancho, and David Lopez, Rainhouse and Ocean: Speeches for the PapagoYear (Flagstaff: Museum of Northern Arizona Press, 1979), p. 33. | Page 3 |
| I thank Dennis Cornejo of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum for introducing me tothe orgies of spadefoot toads (Scaphiopus couchi and S. hammondi) which occur withthe first drenching rains of the summer. Cornejo and Clay May have been studyingthe accelerated breeding and development cycle of Avra Valley spadefoots for severalsummers. | Page 5 |
| The quote from linguist Pilcher uses another orthography. See William M. Pilcher,Some Comments on the Folk Taxonomy of the Papago, American Anthropologist 69:2(1967), 204-08. | Page 6 |
| Ecologist Tevis published several articles on desert wildflowers which emphasizetheir remarkable responses to scanty rain. See Lloyd Tevis, Jr., A Population ofDesert Ephemerals Germinated by Less than One Inch of Rain, and Germination andGrowth of Ephemerals Induced by Sprinkling a Sandy Desert, Ecology 39:4 (1958),688-95 and 681-88, respectively. | Page 7 |
| Gary Nabhan, James Berry, Cynthia Anson, and Charles Weber, Papago Indian FloodwaterFields and Tepary Bean Protein Yields, Ecology of Food and Nutrition 10:1 (1981),71-78. | Page 8 |
| CHAPTER ONE: ON THE TRAIL OF IITOI The song dreamed by the Papago shaman is printed in Ruth M. Underhill, Singing forPower: The Song Magic of the Papago Indians (Berkeley: University of California Press,1938), p. 144. | Page 13 |
| The caracara, Caracara cheriway, is called kusijim by the Papago, and is recognizedfor the dark top of its head, and its feeding on roadkills. Pesticide buildup throughthe food chain has severely affected carrion-eaters which feed around modem agriculturein the Southwest, while those which spend most of their time in areas of traditionalagriculture have hardly been affected. (Amadeo Rea, personal communication.) | Page 13 |
| The various attributes of Iitoi have been summarized by Ruth Underhill, PapagoIndian Religion (New York: Columbia University Press, 1946), p. 12. | Page 14 |
| Non-Papago need permits to drive within the southern (borderland) districts of thePapago Indian Reservation. | Page 14 |
| I thank Janice Bowers for helping identify the rare or unusually distributed plantsfound in Baboquivari Canyon. Their scientific names are noted below, since the plantsare rare enough in the U.S. that their English common names are not generally used:kidneywood, Eysenhardtia polystachya; Arizona sapote, Bumelia lanuginosa; white-floweredplumbago, Plumbago scandens; bloodleaf amaranth, lresine heterophylla; wild chilesor chiltepines, Capsicum annuum; desert dogbane, Amsonia keameyana; and elephanttree, Bursera fagaroides. The five-striped sparrow, Aimophila quinquestriata, nestsin few places in the U.S. (Baboquivari Canyon, Sonoita Creek) (Scott Mills, personalcommunication). Coatimundis of the borderlands are the subject of a delightful bookby Bil Gilbert, Chulo (New York: Knopf, 1973). A sizable portion of the book discussesKitt Peak changos, pp. 74-118. | Page 15 |
| I have discussed the Papago wild chile harvest in Gary Paul Nabhan, Chiltepines:Wild Spice of the American Southwest, El Palacio 84:2 (1978), 1-5. The wild onions,called Iitoi siwol by the Papago, likely include more than one Allium species. Anedible root, whose Papago name is a, is known to some as saiya or wild carrot;its scientific name is Amoreuxia palmatifida. | Page 16 |
| The story of the overstuffed mouse is found in Underhill, Papago Indian Religion,p. 11. | Page 17 |
| A number of more common species of the Arizona Uplands of the Sonoran Desert arefound in the canyon. Their common names follow J. Harry Lehr, A Catalogue of theFlora of Arizona (Phoenix: Desert Botanical Garden, 1978). | Page 19 |
| The definition and story of Waw Kiwulik as rock drawn in the middle is from thePapago myths collected by Harold Bell Wright, Long Ago Told (New York: Appleton,1979), pp. 135-40. Kinos transcription is noted by Herbert Eugene Bolton, Rim ofChristendom (New York: Macmillan, 1936), p. 399. | Page 19 |
| Observations on the geology and history of Iitoi ki: were written by Robert H. Forbes,Notes on the Baboquivaris, July 26, 1948, a three-page memo deposited in the ArizonaHistorical Society archives. Dr. Forbes, a famous scientist and conservationist,was the first man known to climb Baboquivari Peak. When one Papago saw Forbes campfireatop the Peak, he cried to his village that the world was coming to an end. | Page 20 |
| CHAPTER TWO: THROWING UP THE CLOUDS The chapters introductory quote was transcribed by Underhill, Papago Indian Religion, p. 57. | Page 25 |
| Excerpts from this chapter appeared in the saguaro ethnobotany literature reviewdone by Frank S. Crosswhite, The Annual Saguaro Harvest and Crop Cycle of the Papago,with Reference to Ecology and Symbolism, Desert Plants 2:1 (1980), 1-62. Dr. Crosswhitesarticle skillfully weaves together many references to the Papago wine feast, providingmany new insights. | Page25 |
| See Pilcher, Some Comments on the Folk Taxonomy of the Papago, 205. | Page 26 |
| The legend of the saguaro and Crow (Raven) is found in Underhill, Papago Indian Religion,p. 42. | Page 26 |
| The best technical study of the ecology of Papago saguaro harvesting is by WilliamH. Doelle, Desert resources and Hohokam subsistence: the Conoco-Florence project,Arizona State Museum Archaeological Series 103 (1977), 70-77; 94-99. | Page 31 |
| The 1929 price of saguaro syrup is noted in a valuable early article by Frank A.Thackery and A. R. Leding, The Giant Cactus of Arizona: The Use of Its Fruit andOther Cactus Fruits by the Indians, Journal of Heredity 20:9 (1929), 400-14. | Page 31 |
| Papago in villages north of the U.S./Mexico border used to migrate southward to takeadvantage of denser stands of organpipe, |
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