(2 Jul 2025)
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Tucson, Arizona - 23 June 2025
1. Tanisha Tucker Lohse and her cousin Maria Francisco pick saguaro fruit, called “bahidaj” in the Tohono O'odham language
2. Tucker Lohse and her cousin Francisco pick saguaro fruit
3. Tucker Lohse opening a saguaro fruit
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanisha Tucker Lohse, Tohono O'odham saguaro harvester:
“What we were taught is when you come out for your first harvest, you take that fruit, your first fruit, you open up, you bless yourself, you put it on your forehead, you put a little bit on your heart, and you taste that first taste of that fruit that's out for the season. And you're just saying thank you, you know, it's just saying, thank you and you're showing respect to the saguaro.”
5. Various of Francisco and Tucker Lohse walking through Saguaro National Park West
6. Tucker Lohse picking fruit
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Tanisha Tucker Lohse, Tohono O'odham saguaro harvester:
"They are elders, they're humans to us. So we like to, you know, keep that, that tradition going around them because we feel if we're not here to celebrate them and to harvest that, you know, maybe something would happen to them."
8. Tight of saguaro fruit in Saguaro National Park West
9. Tight of bees pollinating saguaro fruit and flowers
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Francisco, Tohono O'odham saguaro harvester:
“We are at the Saguaro National Park West.”
11. Tucker Lohse and Francisco walking through Saguaro National Park West
12. Tight of picking saguaro fruit
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Francisco, Tohono O'odham saguaro harvester:
“This at one time, this area was full of many, many individuals that came from families, that came from the nation. The Tohono O'odham Nation, that came out here to harvest and to set up camp to harvest the many of the different foods out here, but basically was here to harvest the saguaro fruit, the, ”bahidaj."
14. Francisco and Tucker Lohse picking saguaro fruit
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Francisco, Tohono O'odham saguaro harvester:
“The tool that we use to pick the saguaro, it's called a k'uipud, and it's made of saguaro ribs.”
16. Starting fire at a family camp
17. Preparing fruit to make wine
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Francisco, Tohono O'odham saguaro harvester:
“So, this is the new year, so after we do the harvesting of the “bahidaj,” there's a wine ceremony. And then that's to bring the rain.”
19. Wide of boiling fruit
20. Mid of boiling fruit
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Francisco, Tohono O'odham saguaro harvester:
“So, you just add some water, you do a boiling. So, you're going to do one boiling and after it first boils, you're going to, it's going to go through two strainings."
22. Wide of Francisco straining the fruit
23. Tight of Francisco straining the fruit
24. Francisco checking the consistency of boiling fruit
25. SOUNDBITE (English) Maria Francisco, Tohono O'odham saguaro harvester:
"And then it will be ... [truncated]
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