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G. E. P. Smith and Arizona's Failed Water Code Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Julia Fonseca
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: G. E. P. Smith and Arizona's Failed Water Code Julia Fonseca (bio) Introduction Alfred Atkinson, president of the University of Arizona, was troubled. One of the university's most able professors had verbally attacked the state water commissioner during a January 1938 event. There on page 1 of the Sunday-morning paper were Professor George
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'O'odham Astronomy Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Harry J. Winters Jr.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: 'O'odham Astronomy Harry J. Winters Jr. (bio) 'O'odham Daamkaachim Maachig In 'O'odham Ñi'ok, the 'O'odham language, maachig is knowledge of something. The heavens above us are called daamkaachim. Daam means above and kaachim means lying spread out. So we will call astronomy daamkaachim maachig. As we shall see, our discussion at times
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Automobile Parts in 'O'odham Ñi'ok, the 'O'odham Language Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Harry J. Winters Jr.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Automobile Parts in 'O'odham Ñi'ok, the 'O'odham Language Harry J. Winters Jr. (bio) This 'O'odham auto parts lexicon is a result of over 65 years of friendship with Tohono 'O'odham and 'Akimeli 'O'odham folks. I began learning the 'O'odham language when I was 17 years old and was befriended by the Miguel family of Koahadk village, Kohatk
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The Tohono 'O'odham Tradition of the 'A'al Hiaha'iñ, the Children's Burial Place Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Harry J. Winters Jr.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Tohono 'O'odham Tradition of the 'A'al Hiaha'iñ, the Children's Burial Place Harry J. Winters Jr. (bio) This Tohono 'O'odham tradition tells of an actual event that happened centuries ago. A man from the area of old 'Aji village in today's Gu Achi District of the Tohono 'O'odham Nation was on a trip in the Altar Valley of Sonora. He
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The Place Name, Eloy, Arizona Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Harry J. Winters Jr.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Place Name, Eloy, Arizona Harry J. Winters Jr. (bio) To the best of my knowledge, up to today the meaning and origin of the name Eloy has not been discovered. Barnes (1935, 144) wrote, "In the year 1902 the Southern Pacific (Railroad) built a switch here, naming it Eloi, a word taken from the Syrian language, meaning 'My God.' It was
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They Call You Back: A Lost History, a Search, a Memoir by Tim Z. Hernandez (review) Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-09-19 Gary Paul Nabhan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: They Call You Back: A Lost History, a Search, a Memoir by Tim Z. Hernandez Gary Paul Nabhan (bio) They Call You Back: A Lost History, a Search, a Memoir By Tim Z. Hernandez 2024, 272 pages University of Arizona Press, Tucson ISBN 978-0-8165-5361-7 Poet, oral historian, and storyteller Tim Z. Hernandez was honored in 2014 with
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"I Want People to Really See It": On Poetry, Truth, and the Particularities of Blackhorse Mitchell's "The Beauty of Navajoland" Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Anthony K. Webster
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: "I Want People to Really See It":On Poetry, Truth, and the Particularities of Blackhorse Mitchell's "The Beauty of Navajoland" Anthony K. Webster (bio) In memory of Blackhorse Mitchell We can ask and ask but we can't have again what once seemed ours for ever. —J. L. Carr, A Month in the Country, 1983 Not just having been there, but having
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Lorraine Marquez Eiler: The Remarkable Life of a Hia-Ced O'odham Woman Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Gayle Harrison Hartmann, Sandra Martynec, Lorraine Marquez Eiler
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Lorraine Marquez Eiler:The Remarkable Life of a Hia-Ced O'odham Woman Gayle Harrison Hartmann (bio), Sandra Martynec (bio), and Lorraine Marquez Eiler (bio) Introductory Note The work on this article began in May 2021 with three long interviews that Gayle and Sandra conducted with Lorraine to document her remarkable and fascinating life
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Orthographies for the Winters Papers in This Issue Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Harry J. Winters Jr.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Orthographies for the Winters Papers in This Issue Harry J. Winters Jr. (bio) In these papers 'O'odham words are written in an alphabet that comes as close as possible to what someone who has learned to read English in American schools would expect. Differences are (1) all glottal stops are included and are written as apostrophes, (2)
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Arizona Indian Peoples' Territories in the Nineteenth Century Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Harry J. Winters Jr.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Arizona Indian Peoples' Territories in the Nineteenth Century Harry J. Winters Jr. (bio) In this paper I describe changes in the sizes and locations of the territories of several Arizona Indian peoples in the nineteenth century and the causes of those changes. The peoples whose territories I discuss are the Tohono 'O'odham, formerly called
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The Names of Arizona's Four Peaks Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Harry J. Winters Jr.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Names of Arizona's Four Peaks Harry J. Winters Jr. (bio) Yavapai Name The Four Peaks sit on the crest of the southern Mazatzal Mountains on the boundary between the old territories of the Kwevakapaya Yavapais on the west and the Dilzhę'e (Tonto Apaches) on the east. The Kwevakapaya are the Downstream or Southern Yavapais because their
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Supplement to "History of the Sif Oidak District, Tohono 'O'odham Nation" Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Harry J. Winters Jr.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Supplement to "History of the Sif Oidak District, Tohono 'O'odham Nation" Harry J. Winters Jr. (bio) Published in Journal of the Southwest, Volume 62, Number 3, Autumn2020, pages 679– 708 In the "History of the Sif Oidak District" referred to in this paper's title, translations of two 'O'odham men's names, both from the 'O'odham Paḍ 'Aangam
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Carp Fever! The Introduction of Carp into Territorial Arizona and Its Lasting Legacy Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Michael Bogan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Carp Fever!The Introduction of Carp into Territorial Arizona and Its Lasting Legacy Michael Bogan (bio) Michael Bogan European carp (Cyprinus carpio), a species which is largely viewed as a "trash fish" in modern times, was the first non-native fish to be imported to Arizona.1 In fact, the Arizona Territory and much of the United States
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The Lola Casanova That I Have Longed to Know Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Robert McKee Irwin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Lola Casanova That I Have Longed to Know Robert McKee Irwin (bio) A few years ago I was embarking on a project about borderlands culture that grew out of a fascination that I'd developed with Ramona—not Helen Hunt Jackson's novel, nor its various adaptations in film or theater or telenovela in the US or Mexico, nor the "real" Ramona
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Introduction: The Union of Coyote Iguana and Lola Casanova Set in a Time of Crisis Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Gary Paul Nabhan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction:The Union of Coyote Iguana and Lola Casanova Set in a Time of Crisis Gary Paul Nabhan (bio) Why do some stories continue to be told mouth to mouth, generation to generation, for centuries, without ever losing their power or precision? It is a question that is particularly potent for peoples who have been oppressed, enslaved
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An Account of Coyote Iguana and Lola Casanova in Seri Oral Tradition Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Cathy Moser Marlett
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: An Account of Coyote Iguana and Lola Casanova in Seri Oral Tradition Cathy Moser Marlett (bio) Presented here is a translation of a Seri account of the abduction of Lola Casanova, narrated by Roberto Herrera Marcos and recorded on reel-to-reel tape by Edward Moser, in Desemboque, Sonora, in 1964.1 While other Seris, notably Jesús Morales
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The Oral Histories of Coyote Iguana and Dolores Casanova Among the Comcaac Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Alberto Mellado Jr., Gary Paul Nabhan
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Oral Histories of Coyote Iguana and Dolores Casanova Among the Comcaac Alberto Mellado Jr. (bio) Translated by Gary Paul Nabhan (bio) The Birth and Childhood of Jesús Ávila Around the year of 1828, in a remote place on the small island Cofteecöl—or San Esteban Island as the Mexicans will call it later—those of us who were there saw
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The Journey of Coyote Iguana and Lola Casanova: A Visual Geography Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 David Burckhalter
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Journey of Coyote Iguana and Lola Casanova:A Visual Geography David Burckhalter (bio) In 1850, traveling the road from Guaymas/Hasoj Iyat to Hermosillo/Hezitmisoj, a young Mexican woman, Lola Casanova, was abducted from her father's carriage by a Seri named Coyote Iguana (Jesús Ávila) near the caves of La Pintada in the Sierra Libre
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Account Given by Manuel Monroy of Jesús Ávila Sánchez, Dolores Casanova Villegas, and Victor Ávila Casanova Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Gary Paul Nabhan, Laura Monti
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Account Given by Manuel Monroy of Jesús Ávila Sánchez, Dolores Casanova Villegas, and Victor Ávila Casanova October 15, 2020, and December 15, 2021, interviews with Gary P. Nabhan and Laura Monti, Desemboque del Sur, Sonora Preface To place Manuel Monroy's commentaries in context, keep in mind that he was not a direct descendant of Coyote
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Account Given by Ernesto Molina, Great-Great-Grandson and Descendant of Jesús Ávila Sánchez and Dolores Casanova Villegas Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Gary Paul Nabhan, Laura Monti
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Account Given by Ernesto Molina, Great-Great-Grandson and Descendant of Jesús Ávila Sánchez and Dolores Casanova Villegas October 15, 2020, interview with Gary P. Nabhan and Laura Monti, Punta Chueca, Sonora Preface Ernesto Molina is a well-known Comcaac elder and an expedition and tour guide who lives in Punta Chueca, Sonora. He has over
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Dining with Lola and Coyote: A Conversation Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Susan Lowell
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Dining with Lola and Coyote:A Conversation Susan Lowell (bio) In or about 1963, Lola Casanova and Coyote Iguana joined our family. Not the actual historic human beings—an electrifying idea—but the two legendary personages who were the subjects of a master's thesis being researched and written in our midst. To advance in her teaching job
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How Good Is Oral History and What Is It Good For? Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21 Gary Paul Nabhan, Laura Monti
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: How Good Is Oral History and What Is It Good For? October 15, 2020, and December 15, 2021, interviews with Gary P. Nabhan and Laura Monti, Desemboque del Sur, Sonora Popular and scholarly interest in the poetry and veracity of oral histories surges and ebbs like the tides in the Gulf of California, going in and out of fashion with various
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Contents: Volume 65 Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2024-03-21
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ContentsVolume 65 Number 1, Spring 2023 Ethical Memory and Re-Presenting History Across Empire: The Korean War in Rolando Hinojosa’s Klail City Death Trip Sandra So Hee Chi Kim 1 Adventures in Teaching: The Scandalous Career of Carrie Amidon Stanton (1839–1897) Susan E. James 26 The Photo Postcards of Albert W. Lohn from Culiacán, Sinaloa
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Politics and Prison Ink in Arizona A Map for Navigation in a World of Post-structural Violence Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Enrique Alan Olivares-Pelayo
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Politics and Prison Ink in Arizona A Map for Navigation in a World of Post-structural Violence Enrique Alan Olivares-Pelayo (bio) The American Southwest is a land of myths, legends, and folk heroes, complex in terms of the cultural confluence and geographic idiosyncrasies of the region. Even the notion of the "Southwest" is fluid, youthful
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Stories of Holy Dirt: Myth, Ethnicity, and the New Age at the Santuario de Chimayó Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Karl Isaac Johnson
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Stories of Holy Dirt:Myth, Ethnicity, and the New Age at the Santuario de Chimayó Karl Isaac Johnson (bio) The Santuario de Chimayó, the most popular Catholic pilgrimage site within the United States, is said to be inspired by a shrine of Our Lord of Esquípulas in Guatemala and is built atop a former Tewa Indian healing pool. Scholars
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Alfred L. Kroeber's Visit to the Seris in 1930, as Recalled by Roberto Thomson Encinas Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Cathy Moser Marlett
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Alfred L. Kroeber's Visit to the Seris in 1930, as Recalled by Roberto Thomson Encinas Cathy Moser Marlett (bio) Roberto Thomson Encinas (1888–1969), a rancher and amateur historian living in Sonora, Mexico, facilitated a six-day visit to the Seri Indians for anthropologist Alfred L. Kroeber in March 1930, and in which Thomson accompanied
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U.S.-Mexico Groundwater Diplomacy: Lessons from the Historical Record Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Stephen P. Mumme, Elia M. Tapia-Villaseñor
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: U.S.-Mexico Groundwater Diplomacy:Lessons from the Historical Record Stephen P. Mumme (bio) and Elia M. Tapia-Villaseñor (bio) Among the enduring challenges and, some would argue, the unfinished business of elaborating a comprehensive regime for managing shared waters along the U.S.-Mexico boundary, the problem of reaching bilateral agreement
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Bisbee: The Alchemical City of the Borderlands by Virgil Hancock III (review) Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 David Yetman
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: Bisbee: The Alchemical City of the Borderlands by Virgil Hancock III David Yetman (bio) Bisbee: The Alchemical City of the Borderlands By Virgil Hancock III 2023 200 pages Maps, photographs, notes, bibliographic essay ISBN 979-8-218-07863-8 A few decades ago, the late Richard Shelton published a poetic memoir entitled Going
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Bisbee: The Alchemical City of the Borderlands Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Virgil Hancock III
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Bisbee:The Alchemical City of the Borderlands Virgil Hancock III Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 403] Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 404] Click for larger view View full resolution Click for larger view View
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The Origins of the Section-Line Arterial Street Grid in Tucson, Arizona Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Joe Weber
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Origins of the Section-Line Arterial Street Grid in Tucson, Arizona Joe Weber (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Figure 1. Aerial view of Tucson, looking east from downtown down Broadway, a section-line arterial street. Others can be seen to the north (left) and south. Source: Library of Congress, Carol M. Highsmith collection
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The Symbolic Criminalization of Asylum: Navigating Encounters with US Customs and Border Protection Officials Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 Alyssa Dormer, Daniel E. Martínez, Annalise Gardella
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Symbolic Criminalization of Asylum: Navigating Encounters with US Customs and Border Protection Officials Alyssa Dormer (bio), Daniel E. Martínez (bio), and Annalise Gardella (bio) Introduction On a hot summer day in one of the US Southwestern Migrant Shelter (SMS) facilities we stand in the dormitory hallway with Ana1 and her 10-year-old
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Recollections of Sonora, and Especially the Río Sonora Valley Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-08-18 William E. Doolittle
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Recollections of Sonora, and Especially the Río Sonora Valley William E. Doolittle (bio) Introduction “You should write a memoir of the time you spent here,” or something to this effect, said Bill Steen during our travels in the Río Sonora Valley, July 2021. My immediate thought was “Why would I do that?” But think about it I did, and
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Ethical Memory and Re-Presenting History Across Empire: The Korean War in Rolando Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Sandra So Hee Chi Kim
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Ethical Memory and Re-Presenting History Across Empire:The Korean War in Rolando Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip Sandra So Hee Chi Kim (bio) This article examines how the representation of the Korean War in Rolando Hinojosa's Klail City Death Trip series (KCDTS) critiques official histories of U.S. empire through an engagement with ethical
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Adventures in Teaching: The Scandalous Career of Carrie Amidon Stanton (1839–1897) Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Susan E. James
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Adventures in Teaching:The Scandalous Career of Carrie Amidon Stanton (1839–1897) Susan E. James (bio) In the late afternoon of Wednesday, 26 October 1881, only steps from where a 42-year-old schoolteacher named Carrie Stanton was teaching 52 third-graders in Tombstone's Fourth Street schoolhouse, Doc Holliday and Morgan, Virgil, and Wyatt
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The Photo Postcards of Albert W. Lohn from Culiacán, Sinaloa, and Ambos Nogales, Arizona and Sonora: 1907–1933 Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 William F. Manger
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Photo Postcards of Albert W. Lohn from Culiacán, Sinaloa, and Ambos Nogales, Arizona and Sonora:1907–1933 William F. Manger (bio) Between 1905 and 1915, a postcard craze emerged in the United States with over 770 million mailed in the year 1906 alone. By 1913, that number rose to almost 1 billion1 Those figures, however, do not take
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Redefining Gonzo: Tattoos, Prisons, and My Friend Charles Bowden Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Jim Reese
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Redefining Gonzo:Tattoos, Prisons, and My Friend Charles Bowden Jim Reese (bio) My Tattoo Before I ever spoke a word to Charles Bowden, I did a mad dash towards the table where he was signing autographs, put my foot up on it, and pulled up my pant leg. Behold my GONZO (fist and peyote button) tattoo. I shifted my eyes from the tattoo and
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Seeds of Wisdom: Toward Healing a Cultural Divide Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Sarah Blomquist
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Seeds of Wisdom:Toward Healing a Cultural Divide Sarah Blomquist (bio) Sometimes the world will play with you, and that's how people get lost. — A Yaqui elder Click for larger view View full resolution Encased desert seeds harvested within southern Arizona: Purple speckled pods on the outer left, mesquite; light green pods on the outer
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Identifying Bird Species in River Yuman Oral Traditions Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Jonathan A. Geary
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Identifying Bird Species in River Yuman Oral Traditions Jonathan A. Geary (bio) 1. Introduction Nearly 400 bird species occur along the lower Colorado River (Rosenberg et al. 1991), and Yuman communities that have historically lived along the lower Colorado surely knew and named many of them. However, judging from modern sources, this
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Mexican Food: (an essay presented to the Tucson Literary Club, March 16, 2015) Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Joseph C. Wilder
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Mexican Food(an essay presented to the Tucson Literary Club, March 16, 2015) Joseph C. Wilder (bio) If you have lived long enough around here—that is, Tucson, Arizona, and various points nearby—you will have experienced the singular and enduringly devastating loss occasioned by the death of a favorite Mexican restaurant. I grew up in the
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Volume Contents Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2023-04-24
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Volume Contents Number 1, Spring 2022 Tricksters Unmasked Mardith K. Schuetz-Miller 1 History of the Hickiwan District, Tohono 'O'odham Nation Harry J. Winters, Jr. 100 The Calendar Stick of Mehidaj and Benjamin Thompson, 'O'odham of Casa Blanca, Arizona Harry J. Winters, Jr. and J. Andrew Darling 160 Number 2, Summer 2022 In Search of
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Richard Allen Pailes: In Memoriam Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 William E. Doolittle
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Richard Allen Pailes: In Memoriam William E. Doolittle (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution [End Page 419] Those of us who have spent time with Dick (aka Rich) Pailes at Bahía de Kino, or Punta Chueca, Sonora, México, were privileged to experience a very special side of this man that was exhibited nowhere else. Being at the
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Tlaloc and a Mesoamerican Cosmology in the American Southwest Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Polly Schaafsma
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Tlaloc and a Mesoamerican Cosmology in the American Southwest Polly Schaafsma (bio) Introduction It has long been recognized in the American Southwest that maize agriculture, beginning at least 4,000 years ago, had its origins in Mexico. At the same time, the more complex and intangible aspects of Mesoamerican/Southwest connections such
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Prelude to the Columbus Raid of 1916: The Battle of Naco Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Heribert von Feilitzsch
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Prelude to the Columbus Raid of 1916: The Battle of Naco Heribert von Feilitzsch (bio) When “constitutionalist” revolutionaries ousted the Mexican dictator Victoriano Huerta in July 1914, the political situation in Mexico was far from stable. The rivalry between the victorious Mexican rebel commanders Pancho Villa and Venustiano Carranza
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Place Naming and Toponymic Silencing in the Sierras of Northern Nuevo México Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-12-14 Len Beké
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Place Naming and Toponymic Silencing in the Sierras of Northern Nuevo México Len Beké (bio) This essay is an exercise in critical toponymy applied to the Pecos Wilderness and surrounding mountainous areas of northern Nuevo México.1 It is part of a larger research project called the Manito Topos Project, which aims to challenge the erasure
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Introduction to the Collection of Oral Histories Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Neil Goodwin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction to the Collection of Oral Histories Neil Goodwin (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Grenville Goodwin, 1930. THE BEGINNING "To Grenville Goodwin we owe most of what understanding we have of the way of life of the Western Apaches." —Edward Spicer "One of the most gifted and effective field anthropologists in the
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Introduction to the Collection of Oral Histories Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-10-14 Neil Goodwin
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Introduction to the Collection of Oral Histories Neil Goodwin (bio) Click for larger view View full resolution Grenville Goodwin, 1930. THE BEGINNING "To Grenville Goodwin we owe most of what understanding we have of the way of life of the Western Apaches." —Edward Spicer "One of the most gifted and effective field anthropologists in the
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Tricksters Unmasked Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Mardith K. Schuetz-Miller
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Tricksters Unmasked Mardith K. Schuetz-Miller (bio) Introduction This study is derived in large measure from my previously published works associated in one way or the other with creation myths. First were Abodes for the Gods: The Symbolism of Ancient Sacred Architecture in Eurasia and Abodes for the Gods: The Symbolism of Sacred Architecture
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History of the Hickiwan District, Tohono 'O'odham Nation Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Harry J. Winters Jr.
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: History of the Hickiwan District, Tohono 'O'odham Nation Harry J. Winters Jr. (bio) The lands of the Tohono 'O'odham Nation are divided into 11 districts. The district boundaries reflect ancient patterns of ownership and use of natural resources such as farmlands, watering places, and areas for gathering food plants by different groups
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The Calendar Stick of Mehidaj and Benjamin Thompson, 'Akimeli 'O'odham of Casa Blanca, Arizona Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-06-03 Harry J. Winters Jr., J. Andrew Darling
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Calendar Stick of Mehidaj and Benjamin Thompson, 'Akimeli 'O'odham of Casa Blanca, Arizona Harry J. Winters Jr. (bio) and J. Andrew Darling (bio) 'Akimeli 'O'odham and Tohono 'O'odham men with an interest in history kept alive their memories of events of significance or at least of interest to them by carving notches on long wooden
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The Calendar Stick of Mehidaj and Benjamin Thompson, 'Akimeli 'O'odham of Casa Blanca, Arizona Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Harry J. Winters,J. Andrew Darling
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History of the Hickiwan District, Tohono 'O'odham Nation Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Harry J. Winters
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"Strong, enduring bodies with glorious voices": Music and the Body in Ignaz Pfefferkorn's Sonora: A Description of the Province (1794–1795) Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Diana Brenscheidt genannt Jost
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: “Strong, enduring bodies with glorious voices”: Music and the Body in Ignaz Pfefferkorn’s Sonora: A Description of the Province (1794–1795) Diana Brenscheidt genannt Jost (bio) Introduction In Sonora: A Description of the Province, Ignaz Pfefferkorn, Jesuit missionary in New Spain in the 18th century, describes, among many other things
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Santa Cruz (Chico Suni) Village: Last of the Hia-Ced O'odham Villages in the United States Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Richard, Sandra Martynec, Lorraine Eiler
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Santa Cruz (Chico Suni) Village: Last of the Hia-Ced O’odham Villages in the United States Richard, Sandra Martynec (bio), and Lorraine Eiler (bio) The extremely xeric southwestern desert of Arizona has been occupied by the O’odham Indians for centuries, at least (Figure 1). The O’odham homeland ranged roughly from Tucson to Yuma, Arizona
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The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society: A Celebration of 100 Years Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-16
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society: A Celebration of 100 Years An Introduction Katherine Cerino (bio) The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS) is one of the oldest and arguably one of the most successful archaeological societies in the American Southwest. AAHS was founded in 1916 by Dean Byron Cummings, principally
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The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society: A Celebration of 100 Years Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-16
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society: A Celebration of 100 Years An Introduction Katherine Cerino (bio) The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS) is one of the oldest and arguably one of the most successful archaeological societies in the American Southwest. AAHS was founded in 1916 by Dean Byron Cummings, principally
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The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society: A Celebration of 100 Years Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-16
In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society: A Celebration of 100 Years An Introduction Katherine Cerino (bio) The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society (AAHS) is one of the oldest and arguably one of the most successful archaeological societies in the American Southwest. AAHS was founded in 1916 by Dean Byron Cummings, principally
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The Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society: A Celebration of 100 Years Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-16
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Volume 63 Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2022-02-16
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El Colorado Sawmill: A View into 20th-Century Timber Extraction from the Chihuahua Sierra Madre Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-05 Ana Córdova
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The Earliest Description of the Tarahumara: Letters from Jesuit Missionary Johannes Ratkay Journal of the Southwest (IF 0.1) Pub Date : 2021-11-05 Robert E. Dahlquist, Raymond H. Thompson, Werner S. Zimmt
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