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Side received little Spanish or Mexican settlement during those periods of O’odham history (1694–1850), but what is on the Mexican side received a considerable amount. ” Until the United States came, however, that civilization and the O’odham themselves were sorely pressed by Apaches. That pressure ended soon after the United States arrived on the scene. From 1850 to 1950 the O’odham portion of Mexico, in the state of Sonora, developed with little regard for O’odham rights, while the territory in the United States developed with O’odham rights protected through the creation of four Indian reservations (Sells, or Papago; Ak Chin, also Papago; and Gila River and Salt River, a combination of Pimas and Maricopas, the last being linguistically unrelated to the O’odham).

And Kooh told Ha-vahn-e what he should do when he arrived. When Crow reached the giant cactus he found the top of Hah-shahn covered with fruit. The fruit was red and large and full of juice and sugar. Crow gathered the fruit as Chief had told him to do, and flew slowly back to the village. The people were waiting. And Crow put hah-shahn pah-hee-tahch [hasan bahidaj]— the cactus fruit—into ollas, which are large jars, and which were filled with water. Chief placed the ollas on the fire and from sunrise to sunset the fruit kept boiling.

K hab o cei, mas Mas me:k jewed, mas si me:ko habs e-elid c hab cei. S hab-a g oidk k ab si s-e-ma:c, K a’i med hegai, jegos. K ab huhugid ab, K ab med, k ab med, K ab o t-a’ahe amai. K hab ep a:gas, mo ge, That it just looks like, that then the water ran here, [did] that-one. And then next greatly came the rain. Mo hob cem ma:s, mat g oidk in o me: g su:dagi, hegai. Kut hab-a oiya si ge’e ji:va g ju:ki. That there’s so many washes, that’s coming in from there, That from that it had already started, [did] the dust-storm, Matp amjed o i hi: hekihu, g jegos, Dry-trash it flooded, then put it [trash] there.

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