In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. This work comprises thirty-six separate stories. It begins with the creation of the universe out of the void and ends with the establishment in the sixteenth century of present-day villages.
"As definitive a work as we are likely to get on Pima-Papago mythology."-William Bright, author of A Coyote Reader
"While fascinating enough as an account of Pima mythology, the collection is even more compelling because much of the mythology it recounts concerns the Hohokam Indians, ancestors of the Pima whose culture disappeared around 1450 -- hence the subtitle, The Hohokam Chronicles."
