Tiswin

Tiswin is an alcoholic beverage brewed from corn. Tiswin is also the sacred saguaro wine of the Tohono O'odham, a group of aboriginal Americans who reside primarily in the Sonoran Desert of the southeastern Arizona and northwest Mexico.

The saguaro, the largest cactus in the world, is in many respects the sacred tree of the Tohono O'odham, who reside in the Sonoran Desert of southeastern Arizona and northwest Mexico. From the fruit of the saguaro they make a sacred fermentation called tiswin or sometimes nawai.

History

An inability to obtain tiswin was one of the reasons Geronimo and others left their reservation and attempted to return to the land of their ancestors.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ The Geronimo campaign - Google Books. books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-08-26.
  2. ↑ The Apaches - Google Books. books.google.co.uk. Retrieved 2009-08-26.

Bibliography

  • Sacred and herbal Healing Beers by Stephen Harrod Buhner
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