Peoples of a Sonoran Desert Oasis: Recovering the Lost History and Culture of Quitobaquito

Jared Orsi’s sensitive portrait of Quitobaquito builds a stirring tribute to the Tohono O’odham and Hia C’ed O’odham, whose ancestral territory encompassed northwestern Sonora and southwestern Arizona. His clarion call to recover the lost histories of a desert oasis raises a well-researched critique of attempts by the National Park Service (NPS) to render Quitobaquito a wilderness within the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument.