Packet 8: Tossup 6

Peoples in what is now this US state added Christian practices to the concept of himdag, which supposedly emerged when the Wooshkam tore down Siwani’s cities. The mistranslation “all used up” has been applied to a culture in this state that built a ruin indigenously called Siwañ Wa’a Ki, which sits under a shelter designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and was first described by Eusebio Kino. The settlement (-5[1])of Snaketown (-5[1])and vast (10[1]-5[1])networks of canals (10[1])were built in this state by an urban culture (10[1])named after (10[1])“those who came before,” the Hohokam. (10[3])Lifestyles (10[2])centered on what are called Hia-C’ed (-5[1])(“HEE-ah ched”), Tohono, or (10[2])Akimel name the O’odham (“OH-od-um”) peoples (10[1])of this (10[1])US state, (-5[1])who revolted against Spanish incursion (-5[3])when it made up the north of the Pimería Alta or “Land of the Upper Pima.” For 10 points, (-5[1])what state’s settlers built Fort Defiance and Fort Yuma? (10[1])■END■ (10[9]0[1])

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