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The Tohono Oʼodham (/ t ə ˈ h oʊ n oʊ ˈ ɔː t əm,-ˈ oʊ t əm / tə-HOH-noh AW-təm, - OH-təm, [2] O'odham: [ˈtɔhɔnɔ ˈʔɔʔɔd̪am]) are a Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the U.S. state of Arizona and the northern Mexican state of Sonora. The United States federally recognized tribe is the ...
I'itoi or I'ithi is, in the cosmology of the O'odham peoples of Arizona, the creator and God who resides in a cave below the peak of Baboquivari Mountain, a sacred place within the territory of the Tohono O'odham Nation. O'odham oral history describes I'itoi bringing Hohokam people to this earth from the underworld. Hohokam are ancestors of ...
The following is a song from O'odham Hoho'ok A'agida (O'odham Legends and Lore) by Susanne Ignacio Enos, and Dean and Lucille Saxton. [11] It exemplifies the "Storyteller dialect". In Saxton orthography: Ali s-kohmangi chemamangi wiapo'oge'eli, hemu aichu mahch k e ahnga. Wahsh ng uwi chechenga ch mu'ikko ia melopa, oi wa pi e nako.
In the middle of the century, their remaining settlements along the upper San Pedro River were broken up by Arivaipa and Pinaleño Apache attacks. They moved west, seeking refuge among the Tohono Oʼodham and Akimel Oʼodham, with whom they merged. The other peoples are the Tohono Oʼodham or Desert Pima, enrolled in the Tohono Oʼodham Nation.
Anybody who can prove Hia C-eḍ Oʼodham ancestry meeting Tohono Oʼodham Nation blood quantum can apply for membership in the Tohono Oʼodham Nation. Some Hia C-eḍ Oʼodham people are enrolled in the Ak-Chin Indian Community. Along with the Akimel O'odham and the Tohono O'odham, the Hia C-eḍ Oʼodham are members of the O'odham people.
The O'odham name for the peak is Vav Giwulik. Vav refers to a basalt outcropping (as opposed to the more general do'ag "mountain"). [5] Giwulik (also spelled kiwulk or giwulk) is a stative adjective meaning "narrow/constricted around the middle". [6] [7] The O'odham people believe that he watches over their people to this day. [4] [8]
The Tohono Oʼodham Nation [2] is the collective government body of the Tohono Oʼodham tribe in the United States. [2] The Tohono Oʼodham Nation governs four separate sections of land with a combined area of 2.8 million acres (11,330 km 2), approximately the size of Connecticut and the second-largest Indigenous land holding in the United States.
The San Xavier Indian Reservation (O’odham: Wa:k) is an Indian reservation of the Tohono O’odham Nation located near Tucson, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert. The San Xavier Reservation lies in the southwestern part of the Tucson metropolitan area and consists of 111.543 sq mi (288.90 km 2 ) of land area, about 2.5 percent of the Tohono O ...