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Then [after the earlier, more ancient events] something happened, about that-one there, as it’s said, as it’s told about the Wine Drinks They existed, when we [older people] went to school, . . Amjed junhim hegai ha’icu, ab amjed hegai amai, o hob masma hab kaij, mo om b s a:ga ab amjed hegai Nawait I’ita, And I remembered one about the donkey and his [musical] band. . ] That they had it, Mo hob cu’ig, mac eda t-mascam, Right now they [reservations schools] don’t have it [such a curriculum], but during my times, And it [child] asked [permission from] the tarantula, that it[child] could do, to enter below the ground, Because of what the children had done—bothered him, threw rocks at him, And he sang, too, [did] the Saguaro, who stood there.

Few O’odham in the United States now speak Spanish; the cowboy life has given way to jobs in schools, clinics, and casinos; and O’odham Christianity is now more integrated with that of the United States, both Catholic and Protestant, than with that of Mexico. -based missions of both kinds began coming to them in the 1880s. The fiestas persist, especially among the Papagos, and so do the Spanish language hymns, sung by the laity. In my opinion these are the most useful books to read on the O’odham: Frank Russell’s The Pima Indians (1902, prominently used in the present book); Alice Joseph’s, Jane Chesky’s, and Rosamond Spicer’s The Desert People (1949), on the Papagos, Edward Spicer’s Cycles of Conquest (1962), on the O’odham and several other peoples, in fact all of the native peoples, of Arizona, Sonora, New Mexico, and Chihuahua, Mexico; Bernard Fontana’s Of Earth and Little Rain (1989), and Ruth Underhill’s Papago Indian Religion, on the Papagos; and Byrd Baylor’s Yes Is Better Than No (1972), a work of fiction on the Papagos.

Also, these wine-for-fun stories tend 21 22 / How Mockingbirds Are Figure 3. Tohono O’odham Settlement. Round house made of brush, Mexican style house made of sticks and mud and Wahtto or Shade. Tucson 1895. (Arizona Historical Society 13964) to emphasize a kind of drunken song that is used in the ceremonies. Less often do they mention the kind of oratory we are interested in. Second, among the thirteen, and also in the four sampled here, there is a second and quite different type of story, which does describe the origin of wine ceremonies for rain.

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