Maria Chona
At a glance:
- Series: Magill's Choice: American Indian Biographies, Revised Edition
- Categories: Women's Issues
- Subcategories: Native Americans, American Indians, Anthropology, Anthropologists
- Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American Civil War & Reconstruction Era (1856-1877), American History 1878-1900, American Indian History, Women's history
Article abstract: An important spiritual healer among her people, Maria Chona was the subject of an work of autobiography written during the 1930's.
Maria Chona was born in what is now the Tohono O’odham (formerly Papago) Indian Reservation in southwestern Arizona. During the early 1930's, when she was nearly ninety years old, she collaborated with anthropologist Ruth Underhill on Papago Woman, an as-told-to autobiography that is still considered one of the finest examples of its genre. In her introduction to the book, Underhill explained that she chose...
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