Papago Indians: San Xavier del Bac and Father Kino

In Ruth M. Underhill's Papago Women, the contributions Father Kino made to the Tohono O'odham people. Father Kino traveled Arizona creating missions such as San Xavier del Bac just south of Tucson. He was the first important contact the Papago Indians had with the whites. Altough Father Kino's establishments benefited the Papago, it did not make the desert land in Arizona desirable to move to. Father Kino taught the Papago to spend their winters at locations with missions established, instead of out in the cold with little or no food. Father Kino traveled the Pimeria Alta several times and began baptizing Papago and giving them Spanish names. Centuries after Father Kino had died, some of the introductions he made to the Papago Indians remained intact.