Overview

The Soba\u00edpuri-O'odham occupied the San Pedro and Santa Cruz valleys of southern Arizona from the 1400s. Their descendants reside at the contemporary community if Wa:k (San Xavier del Bac). Most of the protohistory and history concerning the Soba\u00edpuri-O'odham has been gleaned from documents written by the early Spanish colonizers and other Europeans and emphasizes the influence of Father Eusebio Kino; there are few accounts of the indigenous people themselves. In recent years, however, archaeological surveys and excavations in southern Arizona have revealed new information about this group. Where the Earth and Sky Are Sewn Together includes these archaeological findings to provide an enhanced interpretation of the Soba\u00edpuri-O'odham lifeway, addressing questions that have been unanswerable by historical documents alone. Seymour considers new methods and theory for tackling the difficulties of working with a sparse archaeological record and proposes some very different answers. This book represents a much revised rendition of the historian's Soba\u00edpuri-O'odham, a people who once dominated southern Arizona's landscape.

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<p> Where the Earth and Sky Are Sewn Together provides a unique perspective on the Soba'puri, O'odham, and Hohokam not captured in other books. The author provides a compelling amount of new data from her recent fieldwork. This is an extrodinary and exciting achievement. --W. Bruce Masse, Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico

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Deni J. Seymour is a research associate at the University of Arizona and a research archaeologist for Dos Locos Consultores, LLC. She has been studying the archaeology of the protohistoric and historic Soba\u00edpuri-O'odham, Apache, and others for more than a quarter century.

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