Personal narratives

Scope and Contents This collection consists of four interviews conducted with Francisco Johnson of the Tohono O’odham nation, a native speaker of the Ko:lodi Tohono O’odham language variant and a scu-wu:sotatkam (healing singer). Mr. Johnson was approximately 75 years old at the time of the interviews, which were conducted circa 1968 by an unidentified linguistics student. The interviewer asks questions in English with Tohono O’odham speaker Laura Kermin translating. In the interviews, Mr. Johnson discusses...