Essay On Tohono Odham

For about the last four months I have learned a lot about anthropological study methods, various cultures and groups of people around the world, refugees and the organizations dedicated to assisting them. Also I have learned about the different fields of anthropology like cultural anthropology, linguistic anthropology, archaeology, and forensic anthropology. All this information has broadened my understanding of what anthropology is and it has captured my interest in learning more about this field of study. I will describe several things that I have learned and explain how this knowledge will be applicable to me in the future.
Learning about the Tohono O'odham was one of the most interesting subjects for me because I was born and raised in southern Arizona. Growing up in Tucson I had a very basic understanding of this group. What was particularly fascinating to me was the way they were affected by contact with the Spanish. I still laugh thinking about how the Spanish missionaries, trying to convert the natives, must have gotten frustrated with The O’odham people migrating to their second village every year before the introduction of Spanish wheat. Understanding the Tohono O'odham will prove to be useful for me to impress my friends and visitors with my knowledge of native history and subsistence …show more content…
The characteristics that account for out eye color, skin color and hair is only .01% of our genetic code. What interested me was that even though skin color, eye color, etc... have no bearing on our intelligence, people still try to prove that it does. The only thing that skin color tells us is the distance our ancestors lived from the equator, but as humans we are obsessed with dividing people into certain groups based of this erroneous fact. These facts are important for everyone to understand so that hopefully one day we can dispel racism and segregation from our planet for