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A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land
Sobaipuri Oâodham Landscapes
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The result of decades of research, A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land presents a thorough and detailed understanding of the Sobaipuri O'odhamâarguably the most influential and powerful Indigenous group in southern Arizona in the terminal prehistoric and early historic periods, yet one of the least understood and under-studied to have occupied the region. Deni J. Seymour combines historical sources with fresh archaeological data and oral history to reveal an astonishingly different view of, and revise conventional wisdom around, the native history of the region.
First and foremost irrigation farmers, the Sobaipuri O'odham permanently occupied verdant strips along all the major rivers in the regionâincluding the headwaters of the San Pedro and various other areas thought to be beyond their domain. Seymour draws on career-spanning fieldwork, conversations with direct descendants (the O'odham residents of Wa:k), and recent breakthroughs in archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnohistorical research to shed light on their unique forms of landscape use, settlement patterns, and way of life. She details the building materials, linear site layout, and other elements of their singular archaeological signature; newly established dating for individual sites, complex building episodes, and occupational sequences; and evidence of cumulative village occupation as well as the habitation of river valleys and other locales long after supposed abandonment. The book also explains the key relationships between site distributions and landscape characteristics.
Addressing some of the longest-standing archaeological and historical questions about the Sobaipuri O'odham, A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land reorients the discussion of their crucial place in the history of the region in constructive new directions.
First and foremost irrigation farmers, the Sobaipuri O'odham permanently occupied verdant strips along all the major rivers in the regionâincluding the headwaters of the San Pedro and various other areas thought to be beyond their domain. Seymour draws on career-spanning fieldwork, conversations with direct descendants (the O'odham residents of Wa:k), and recent breakthroughs in archaeological, ethnographic, and ethnohistorical research to shed light on their unique forms of landscape use, settlement patterns, and way of life. She details the building materials, linear site layout, and other elements of their singular archaeological signature; newly established dating for individual sites, complex building episodes, and occupational sequences; and evidence of cumulative village occupation as well as the habitation of river valleys and other locales long after supposed abandonment. The book also explains the key relationships between site distributions and landscape characteristics.
Addressing some of the longest-standing archaeological and historical questions about the Sobaipuri O'odham, A Green Band in a Parched and Burning Land reorients the discussion of their crucial place in the history of the region in constructive new directions.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Those Who Sing of the Green Band
- 2. The Sobaipuri Landscape
- 3. Documentary Clarification of the Gila River Sobaipuri Pima in Kinoâs Time
- 4. Ethnogeographic Evaluation of the Great Principal Settlement of San Xavier del Bac
- 5. Ăpata or Oâodham: The San Pedro Headwaters, Huachuca, and Babocomari
- 6. Sobaipuri Settlement along Sonoita Creek
- 7. San Pablo de Quiburi: The Sobaipuri Oâodham RancherĂa of Kinoâs Conception
- 8. The Waning Days of Quiburi in 1780
- 9. Evaluating Di Pesoâs 1757 Jesuit Mission
- 10. The Lower San Pedro: Tres Alamos to the Confluence
- 11. New Understandings in Sobaipuri Research
- References Cited
- Index