History is in the Land: Multivocal Tribal Traditions in Arizona’s San Pedro Valley

History is in the Land: Multivocal Tribal Traditions in Arizona's San Pedro Valley - T. J. Ferguson and Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh. June 2018.

An interesting look at the history of the San Pedro River Valley including sites east of the Santa Catalina Mountains. The book includes both traditional archaeological information and information from members of the Tohono O’odham, Hopi, Zuni and San Carlos Apache tribes. From the book:

As Bill Doelle and his colleagues continued their research [along the San Pedro River] in the 1990s, analyzing survey data and initiating test excavations at selected sites, they realized they were acquiring substantial scientific data but had little understanding of what these places mean to contemporary Native Americans whose ancestors once occupied the valley. … He realized that atchaeology alone could not provide all of the information needed to fully understand the past. This was the beginning of the San Pedro Ethnohistory Project. … The San Pedro Ethnohistory Project was designed as collaborative research with four Indian tribes to redress this situation by visiting archaeological sites, studying museum collections, and interviewing tribal members to collect traditional histories.