Hour of the Hunter

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THE PAPAGO LEGENDS used in this book are retellings of the traditional oral tales of the Tohono O'othham, the Desert People. These are winter-telling tales, which must not be "told" during the summer when snakes and lizards are out, for if they hear the stories, Wamad, Snake, or Hujud, Lizard, may swallow the storyteller's luck and bring him harm.

There is, however, no prohibition against them in written form.

This book is set in the 1970's, long before the tribal council renamed the reservation to reflect the people's traditional name of the Desert People. References to the Papago Reservation are historically correct, although today's maps will refer to the reservation located west of Tucson as the Tohono othham Nation.

Writing this book would not have been possible without being able to use the works of Dean and Lucille Saxton as reference material: Legends and Lore of the Papago and Pima Indians and Papago & Pirna to English Dictionary, both first and second editions, all three of which were published by the University of Arizona Press.

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