Indigenous peoples of North America -- Sonoran Desert
Subject
Subject Source: DU Indigenous and Native Peoples Subject Headings
Scope Note: Use for indigenous peoples of the lower elevation areas of southeastern corner of California, the lower elevation areas of southern Arizona, most of Baja California and Sonora, Mexico when the names of the relevant nations/tribes/bands are unspecified, or there are [provisionally] more than 7 names given. In the context of indigenous materials, use this natural geographic region in preference to settler colonial state boundary lines, unless the work or object(s) are explicitly limited to a present-day jurisdiction.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history of Isaac Owen Rogers, 1981, 2006 March
Item
Identifier: MSM97-181
Abstract
Born in Mesa in 1903, Rogers tells of how his family was sent by Brigham Young to colonize Arizona. His father, Isaac Higby Rogers, worked as a blacksmith and invented a new device to shoe mules. He recalls details of farming with no machinery and home life with no electricity or running water. They used wet burlap to keep milk, eggs and butter cool. Rogers' grandfather was president of the Indian mission of the Mormon church, and Rogers gives a lot of detail about the daily life of Native...
Dates:
1981; Digitization: 2006 March
Oral history of Lelah Schornick, 1976 May 5, 2006 March
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Identifier: MSM97-184
Abstract
Schornick tells of her family's move to Mesa from Cherryville, Kansas, in 1909, to help her father's bronchiectasis. She recalls crops grown in those days: almonds, peaches, cantaloupe, citrus, dates. There were many ostrich farms and they ate ostrich eggs. She also talks about keeping cool by sleeping outside and wrapping water jars in wet burlap. Schornick married her husband Eugene (Gene), in 1917, and they had two children. Gene fought in World War II and retired from a career at Salt...
Dates:
1976 May 5; Digitization: 2006 March