Desert Indian Woman: Stories and Dreams

From: Western Folklore | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: Griffin-Pierce, Trudy | Copyright information

Desert Indian Woman: Stories and Dreams. By Frances Manuel and Deborah Neff. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2001. Pp. xxxviii + 229, preface, introduction, photographs, notes. $39.95 cloth, $17.95 paper)

For centuries, the Tohono O'odham lived in the desert Southwest-present-day southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico-farming, hunting, and gathering wild fruits and vegetables, until external forces destroyed their way of life. Once known as Papagos by outsiders, they have a...

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