Tohono O Odham Language Analysis

skillful and sophisticated dwellers of the desert as they created advanced systems to irrigate their tobacco, corn, beans and squash. These techniques of the Hohokam stick heavily with the Tohono O’odham people as they became knowledgeable of their environment. In The People, Joseph Enos mentions that their ancestors were very spiritual beings that understood the earth, prayed for the environment, and fully understood the desert. This connection, as George Webb acknowledges shortly after, remains to this day in the Tohono O’odham people (Trimble, 1993). The Tohono O’odham culture emphasizes language as a very important aspect. The O’odham language is a Uto-Aztecan language that comes from the South west. The language consists of two dialects;