A photographic essay on the Desert People and their church Introduction Illustration of San Xavier Mission near Tucson. Their pause became a short stay. A short stay became a home. A home became many homes and these became a village. Water courses in deserts were their highways.
Permanent water is the magnet that draws life.
Animals to hunt and plants to gather were plentiful. Farming and crops of corn, teparies, squashes and other native foods were a good possibility. And thus it was that life evolved along the river. One thousand, two thousand, three thousand years ago or more. One day in 1692 a stranger arrived.