6/28/2023 0 Comments Hohokam electricIn 1700, he establishes the San Xavier mission. From then until his death in 1711 he builds missions and works with the Tohono O’odham and Pima, introducing Christianity, wheat, livestock, fruit, and metal tools. 1687 Father Eusebio Kino, a Jesuit missionary, arrives in Sonora.Our communities, districts and Nation have a long and proud history: 1535 New Spain, including Mexico and much of the modem-day Southwest of the United States, is established.We continue to live this proud heritage today as 21st century Tohono O’odham. We gathered wild plants such as saguaro fruit, cholla buds, and mesquite bean pods, and we hunted for only the meat that we needed from the plentiful wildlife, including deer, rabbit, and javelina. On our Oidag in the valleys, near the washes that crisscrossed our land, we raised a tapestry of crops, including tepary beans, squash, melon, and sugar cane. We learned to make the best of our environment, migrating with the seasons from our homes in the valleys to our cooler mountain dwellings. We used and continue to use meteorological principles to establish planting, harvesting, ceremonial cycles and we developed complex water storage and delivery systems. They built vast ball courts and huge ceremonial mounds and left behind fine red-on-buff pottery and exquisite jewelry of stone, shell, and clay.įollowing our ancestral heritage, we became scientists of our environment. The Hohokam were master dwellers of the desert, creating sophisticated canal systems to irrigate their crops of cotton, tobacco, corn, beans, and squash. Thousands of years ago, our predecessors, the Hohokam, settled along the Salt, Gila, and Santa Cruz Rivers. Our origins are linked to our homeland, the Sonoran Desert. Department of Information and Technology.
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