Stella Tucker - Remembering the Tohono O'odham elder

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  • Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
  • On January 9th, Tohono O'odham elder Stella Tucker passed away, at age 71, surrounded by her family. Stella was the public face of the annual saguaro fruit harvest in southern Arizona, a Tohono O'odham tradition she learned from her ancestors and passed on to her three daughters. This segment was filmed 1994 for the long running Arizona Public Media series ‘The Desert Speaks.’
    Producer: Tom Kleespie
    Photographer: Dan Duncan
    Thumbnail photo: Steven Meckler

Комментарии • 17

  • @cae2582
    @cae2582 4 года назад +20

    We will stand for our people its time no more wake young people our time is now
    Proud to have T.O. blood and culture ✊🏼🙏🏼

  • @adobetradingpost2236
    @adobetradingpost2236 3 года назад +5

    My mom was also a gatherer of Chollas, she is no longer alive. But I am so excited to see this video. Make more! This Tribe needs to share more. Be proud. You are awesome!

  • @LAVirgo67
    @LAVirgo67 2 года назад +3

    I need to take part of this important ritual that my TO ancestors & my mother participated in every spring. I have family down in Sonora and some of my older cousins still to out and harvest. My heart is my people.

  • @InlikeMikeQuinn
    @InlikeMikeQuinn 4 года назад +4

    Thank you for the knowledge

  • @makeouthill6662
    @makeouthill6662 4 года назад +26

    That was my grandma RIP😭😭

    • @cae2582
      @cae2582 4 года назад +7

      May the Creator Bless Her ✊🏼🙏🏼

    • @makeouthill6662
      @makeouthill6662 4 года назад +5

      NativCano thank you god bless you and your family 🙏

  • @barbaraarndt4407
    @barbaraarndt4407 2 года назад

    Thank you for sharing this video online - Stella taught me not to pronounce the word I did up to today. May your culture live on forever.

  • @nativeboit9665
    @nativeboit9665 4 года назад +7

    Reminded me of good old sells

  • @BenjiJohnson110
    @BenjiJohnson110 4 года назад +2

    Thx

  • @bacanora1962
    @bacanora1962 2 года назад +2

    My grandmother told me about this, she called it in spanish "sopiches"

  • @headdragondavidaustinsimmo4025
    @headdragondavidaustinsimmo4025 2 года назад

    Were is pima bible

  • @headdragondavidaustinsimmo4025
    @headdragondavidaustinsimmo4025 2 года назад

    Im pima messiah DAS

  • @headdragondavidaustinsimmo4025
    @headdragondavidaustinsimmo4025 2 года назад +1

    You are friends with Aztec people crucified me DAS of Ying dynasty

  • @jeremylewis9819
    @jeremylewis9819 Год назад

    They don't make too many women like this anymore.We are all doomed if we lose how to survive without a grocery store.