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Tumacacori - Ruins and dancing

Last weekend, I was down in southern Arizona, at a little place called Tumacacori. The main claim to fame here is that it was the site of a Spanish mission, founded by Jesuit missionaries back in 1691. Mission church at Tumacacori When the Spanish first arrived, the area was populated by the OOdham people.  The name Tumacacori is a Spanish phonetic spelling of the original OOdham name, but nobodys sure what that original name meant. Over the centuries, this place has seen the OOdham and the Jes....

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