Bahr. Hohokam Chronicles

Today's free book is The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth: The Hohokam Chronicles by Donald Bahr, Juan Smith, William Smith Allison, and Julian Hayden (1994); it is available online as part of the University of California Press ebook initiative: link. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image.

Two of the authors, Juan Smith and William Allison, are Pima storytellers who told the stories in 1935 at Snaketown, on the Gila River Indian Reservation in Arizona.



Table of Contents


Introduction

Prelude, the Font Text

Genesis

The Flood

New Creation and Corn

The Whore

Origin of Wine and Irrigation

Morning Green Chief and the Witch

Feather Braided Chief and the Gambler

Siuuhu's Death and Resurrection

The Conquest until Buzzard

The Conquest until Siwañ Wa'aki

After the Conquest

Conclusion— Mythologies