THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
Department of Language, Reading and Culture and American Indian Studies Announce
SOUTHWEST MEMORY
Voices and Views on Indigenous Arizona History
A Summer Institute for Elementary and Secondary Teachers
1 June 8-July 3, 1992
The University of Arizona, Tucson
FACULTY
- OFELIA ZEPEDA
- (Tohono O'odham), Institute Codirector and Assistant Professor of Linguistics/ American Indian Studies: University of Arizona
- TERESA McCARTY
- Institute Codirector and Assistant Professor of Language, Reading and Culture: University of Arizona
- DAVID WILKINS
- (Lumbee), Assistant Professor of American Indian Studies. Political Science: University of Arizona
- AKIRA Y. YAMAMOTO Professor of Linguistics and Anthropology; University of Kansas
GUEST SPEAKERS
- EDGAR PERRY
- Apache Cultural Historian
- ANCITA BENALLY
- Navajo Educator and Historian
- RAMSON LOMATEWAMA
- Hopi Poet, Educator and Historian
- CATHERINE STEELE
- Apache Bilingual Educator
- LUCILLE J. WATAHOMIGIE
- Hualapai Bilingual Educator
- WILLIAM ALLEN
- Pima Historian and Educator
- DANIEL LOPEZ
- Tohono O'odham Singer, Writer and educator
- FELIPE MOLINA
- Yaqui Singer, Writer and Historian
- LARRY EVERS
- Professor of English
- KEITH BASSO
- Linguist and Ethnohistorian
O'ODHAM CALENDAR STICK
A mnemonic device carved bv lose Maria, of the village of Si:l Naggia (Saddle Hanging), records events
from 1893-1910. The distance between each notch represents a year from sahuaro harvest to sahuaro harvest. Originally started by Maria's father, the notches and cuts record various happenings which only the owner can interpret. This stick is made of pine. Reading from top to bottom inside the boxed area:
- 1899-1900 Fiesta of Kai Mek.
- 1900-1901 First dance given by Tohono O'Odham in Tucson for white people.
- 1901-1902 Big kick ball race at Fresnal Village (Jiawal Dak or Devil Sits), the northern villagers winning against the southern villagers.
- 1902-1903 San Xavier villagers dance at Tucson
- 1903-1904 The cross indicates the building of a home for the Fathers at San Xavier.
- 1904-1905 Feast celebrated in honor of St. Frances: a stone kick ball race against the western villages as far west as Gila Bend.
- 1905-1907 Two uneventful years
- 1907-1908 Drilling of the first well at Si:l Naggia
A calendar sack like this one can be found at the Arizona State Museum in Tucson
INSTITUTE TOPICS
- WEEK 1 Landscapes and Lifeways: Indigenous Arizona History through Oral and Written Accounts
- WEEK 2 Land, People and History: the Colorado Plateau
- WEEK 3 Land, People and History: the Canyon and Rim Country
- WEEK 4 Land, People and History: the Southwest Desert
SUPPORTED BY A GRANT FROM THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES