WEBVTT 00:01.999 --> 00:05.999 align:start LIFE IN THE CITIES AND ALONG THE COAST OF SONORA, 00:05.999 --> 00:10.584 align:start MEXICO, IS MODERN BUT IT'S CROWDED AND OFTEN HECTIC. 00:10.584 --> 00:13.459 align:start TRAVEL A COUPLE OF HOURS INLAND TO THE FOOTHILLS OF 00:13.459 --> 00:17.667 align:start THE SIERRA MADRE AND YOU CAN LEAVE ALL THAT BEHIND. 00:17.667 --> 00:21.667 align:start IT'S LIKE TAKING A TRIP BACK IN TIME. 00:30.375 --> 00:34.501 align:start FUNDING FOR THE DESERT SPEAKS IS PROVIDED BY 00:34.501 --> 00:35.000 align:start DESERT PROGRAM PARTNERS. 00:35.000 --> 00:37.375 align:start REPRESENTING CONCERNED VIEWERS MAKING A FINANCIAL COMMITTMENT 00:37.375 --> 00:42.334 align:start TO THE EDUCATION ABOUT AND PRESERVATION OF DESERTS 00:42.334 --> 00:45.999 align:start AND BY THE STONEWALL FOUNDATION. 00:48.501 --> 00:59.501 align:start [MUSIC] 01:26.751 --> 01:30.751 align:start IF YOU WANT TO SEE WHAT THE OLD WAYS WERE LIKE IN 01:30.751 --> 01:34.709 align:start NORTHWEST MEXICO IN THE STATE OF SONORA, 01:34.709 --> 01:37.292 align:start YOU NEED TO GO TO THE TOWN OF SAHUARIPA 01:37.292 --> 01:41.999 align:start IN THE VALLEY OF SAHUARIPA. 01:41.999 --> 01:44.167 align:start THE DESTINATION OF MOST VISITORS TO SONORA IS THE 01:44.167 --> 01:48.125 align:start LARGE CITY SUCH AS THE CAPITOL HERMOSILLO AND 01:48.125 --> 01:50.375 align:start RESORTS ON THE SEA OF CORTEZ. 01:50.375 --> 01:52.918 align:start TODAY 90% OF SONORA'S POPULATION LIVES IN THE 01:52.918 --> 01:55.834 align:start WESTERN PART OF THE STATE AND NEAR THE WATER. 01:55.834 --> 01:59.250 align:start 200 YEARS AGO THE POPULATION WAS CONCENTRATED 01:59.250 --> 02:02.292 align:start ALONG THE RIVERS AND VALLEYS IN THE EASTERN PART 02:02.292 --> 02:06.999 align:start OF THE STATE IN TOWNS THAT WERE FORMER INDIAN VILLAGES, 02:06.999 --> 02:09.834 align:start SOME OF THEM ANCIENT. 02:09.834 --> 02:15.125 align:start PEOPLE HAVE PROBABLY BEEN LIVING HERE FOR AT LEAST 02:15.125 --> 02:19.125 align:start 1,000 YEARS AND UNTIL ABOUT 40 YEARS AGO IT WAS 02:19.125 --> 02:22.250 align:start ISOLATED FROM THE REST OF SONORA SO YOU HAD TO GO BY 02:22.250 --> 02:26.999 align:start HORSEBACK OR VERY, VERY PRIMITIVE ROAD TO OTHER 02:26.999 --> 02:30.375 align:start TOWNS AND TO GET TO THE STATE CAPITOL OF 02:30.375 --> 02:32.792 align:start HERMOSILLO WAS JUST A MULTI-DAY EXCURSION. 02:32.792 --> 02:37.751 align:start IN THE 60S AND 70S THEY PUNCHED THROUGH A ROAD AND 02:37.751 --> 02:40.999 align:start THEN A PAVED ROAD AND NOW IT'S A MATTER OF THREE AND 02:40.999 --> 02:43.667 align:start A HALF HOURS TO GET TO HERMOSILLO. 02:43.667 --> 02:46.626 align:start THAT HAS CHANGED THE TOWN IMMENSELY. 02:46.626 --> 02:51.501 align:start IT WAS FOUNDED PROBABLY ABOUT 1640 BUT EVEN BEFORE 02:51.501 --> 02:55.542 align:start THEN, LONG BEFORE THEN, IT WAS AN OPATA TOWN OR AT 02:55.542 --> 02:57.584 align:start LEAST AN INDIGENOUS TOWN. 02:57.584 --> 03:00.125 align:start THE LARGEST TOWN IS SAHUARIPA. 03:00.125 --> 03:03.999 align:start IT WAS OLD WHEN SPANIARDS ARRIVED IN THE 16TH CENTURY. 03:03.999 --> 03:06.626 align:start NEARBY ARE THREE OR FOUR 03:06.626 --> 03:10.792 align:start PUEBLOS THAT STILL CARRY ON ANCIENT TRADITIONS. 03:10.792 --> 03:13.999 align:start ONE OF THEM IS CALLED SANTO TOMAS. 03:13.999 --> 03:20.709 align:start [SPANISH] SO IN THIS TOWN OF SANTA TOMAS IN THE 03:20.709 --> 03:23.999 align:start SAHUARIPA VALLEY, IT'S THE ONLY TOWN LEFT SHE'S THE 03:23.999 --> 03:27.209 align:start ONLY ONE THAT MAKES PINOLE AND IT'S A BASIC FOOD. 03:27.209 --> 03:30.292 align:start THE OPATAS WERE USING IT FOR CENTURIES BEFORE THE 03:30.292 --> 03:33.999 align:start ARRIVAL OF SPANIARDS SO THIS IS THE ORIGINAL STUFF. 03:33.999 --> 03:42.918 align:start [SPANISH] SO THIS IS ACTUALLY TOASTED POPCORN 03:42.918 --> 03:49.792 align:start AND SHE PUTS THAT IN THERE AND THEN THE BURRO PUSHES 03:49.792 --> 03:55.999 align:start THIS AND YOU CAN SEE THE GROUND POPCORN COMING OUT 03:55.999 --> 04:01.209 align:start AND THAT THEN BECOMES PINOLE AND YOU CAN SEE IT 04:01.209 --> 04:03.999 align:start COMING OUT AND IT MAKES THE BEST... 04:03.999 --> 04:07.042 align:start IT'S LIKE OATMEAL OR CREAM OF WHEAT BUT IT'S BETTER. 04:07.042 --> 04:12.375 align:start PINOLE WAS THE ORIGINAL FOOD THAT SOLDIERS, 04:12.375 --> 04:17.792 align:start EVEN PRE-COLUMBIAN SOLDIERS, COULD CARRY IN POUCHES. 04:17.792 --> 04:18.501 align:start IT WAS DRY. 04:18.501 --> 04:22.999 align:start THEY'D CARRY IT AND THAT WOULD BE THEIR SOLE FOOD FOR DAYS. 04:22.999 --> 04:26.250 align:start MIXED IT WITH WATER AND NOW THEY MIX IT WITH MILK. 04:26.250 --> 04:34.959 align:start OH, IT'S COMING OUT GREAT. OH, THAT'S GOOD. MMM. 04:34.959 --> 04:37.999 align:start AND IT TASTES VERY MUCH LIKE A VERY GOOD CREAM OF 04:37.999 --> 04:39.876 align:start RICE OR CREAM OF WHEAT OR BETTER YET, 04:39.876 --> 04:46.334 align:start CREAM OF CORN AND IT'S EXTREMELY NUTRITIOUS. GOOD STUFF. 04:46.334 --> 04:52.709 align:start IT TASTES BETTER THAN THE BEST POPCORN AND BECAUSE 04:52.709 --> 04:59.999 align:start IT'S FROM THE WHOLE GRAIN OF THE CORN IT'S VERY NUTRITIOUS. 04:59.999 --> 05:02.459 align:start THE ONLY QUESTION I HAVE IS, WOULD I 05:02.459 --> 05:07.459 align:start USE MORE ENERGY GRINDING IT THAN I WOULD GAIN FROM EATING IT. 05:07.459 --> 05:12.042 align:start [SPANISH] I THINK IT WOULD BE BETTER IF YOU ADD THE 05:12.042 --> 05:17.083 align:start BURRO BUT THE BURRO IS ACTUALLY OUT DOING ANOTHER JOB. 05:17.083 --> 05:20.999 align:start BUT I WANTED SOME PINOLE AND THAT'S ALMOST ENOUGH 05:20.999 --> 05:23.999 align:start TO HAVE A SERVING. 05:23.999 --> 05:27.999 align:start PINOLE HAS BEEN THE BASIC FOOD FOR BOTH 05:27.999 --> 05:30.000 align:start INDIANS AND SPANIARDS FOR CENTURIES. 05:30.000 --> 05:34.083 align:start IT IS STILL THE FUEL THAT TARAHUMARA RUNNERS RELY ON 05:34.083 --> 05:41.792 align:start IN THEIR EPIC RACES AND FESTIVITIES. 05:41.792 --> 05:44.167 align:start JUST ABOUT ALL OF THEM HAVE A 05:44.167 --> 05:46.334 align:start BUNDLE AND IT TURNS OUT TO BE PINOLE. 05:46.334 --> 05:49.000 align:start LATER ON WHEN THEY ARE TIRED OF DANCING AND THEY 05:49.000 --> 05:52.501 align:start WANT TO EAT, EACH ONE OF THEM IS ACTUALLY EVEN 05:52.501 --> 05:55.999 align:start CARRYING A LITTLE CUP OR LITTLE MUG AND LATER ON 05:55.999 --> 06:00.250 align:start THEY MIX IT WITH WATER AND THEY HAVE A LITTLE PINOLE. 06:00.250 --> 06:01.334 align:start IT GIVES THEM STRENGTH 06:01.334 --> 06:07.375 align:start TO CONTINUE DANCING THROUGHOUT THE NIGHT. 06:07.375 --> 06:23.667 align:start ONCE PINOLE HAS BEEN GROUND IT STORES WELL. 06:23.667 --> 06:31.584 align:start THAT'S NOT THE CASE FOR FRESH GARDEN VEGETABLES. 06:31.584 --> 06:39.959 align:start [SPANISH] THIS IS HER GARDEN. MRS. CLACAS 06:39.959 --> 06:42.125 align:start PLANTS THIS EVERY YEAR. 06:42.125 --> 06:46.542 align:start [SPANISH] SO THESE ARE ONIONS, GREEN ONIONS. 06:46.542 --> 06:47.918 align:start ESO QUE ES? ES AJO. 06:47.918 --> 06:50.999 align:start SO THAT'S GARLIC AND WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE? 06:50.999 --> 06:54.250 align:start CILANTRO, ES CILANTRO. OH, THIS IS CILANTRO. 06:54.250 --> 06:58.834 align:start NO GARDEN IS COMPLETE DOWN HERE...SIN CILANTRO. 06:58.834 --> 07:02.459 align:start [SPANISH] SO EVERY FOUR OR FIVE DAYS SHE IRRIGATES. 07:02.459 --> 07:05.250 align:start SHE'S GOT THE HOSE THAT SHE CAN MOVE AROUND. 07:05.250 --> 07:08.292 align:start IN MARCH THE GARLIC WILL BE READY TO HARVEST. 07:08.292 --> 07:17.999 align:start [SPANISH] SO SHE DOESN'T SELL THIS. 07:17.999 --> 07:20.584 align:start IT'S JUST FOR HER HOUSEHOLD USE AND THIS 07:20.584 --> 07:23.999 align:start WILL KEEP FOR MOST OF THE YEAR. 07:23.999 --> 07:30.751 align:start [SPANISH] SO THIS IS THE ORIGINAL WALL OF HER HOUSE 07:30.751 --> 07:31.834 align:start WITH THE ORIGINAL ADOBE ON IT MADE OF DIRT. 07:31.834 --> 07:39.292 align:start [SPANISH] SO THIS IS SAND WITH LIME IN IT AND THEY 07:39.292 --> 07:42.999 align:start COVER IT AND IT DOESN'T CHANGE ANYTHING BUT ALL OF 07:42.999 --> 07:46.751 align:start A SUDDEN IT'S A DIFFERENT COLOR AND IT'S MUCH MORE ATTRACTIVE. 07:46.751 --> 07:49.417 align:start THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO SPECIALIZE 07:49.417 --> 07:52.626 align:start IN PUTTING THIS PLASTER ON ADOBE. 07:52.626 --> 07:58.375 align:start [SPANISH] SO IT'S COOL IN THE SUMMERTIME AND IT'S 07:58.375 --> 08:00.959 align:start WARM IN THE WINTERTIME. 08:00.959 --> 08:03.626 align:start IT IS THE PERFECT MATERIAL FOR BUILDING HERE IN THE 08:03.626 --> 08:06.626 align:start SAHURAIPA VALLEY AND JUST ABOUT EVERYWHERE ELSE IN 08:06.626 --> 08:09.584 align:start THE SOUTHWEST AND NORTHWEST MEXICO. 08:09.584 --> 08:13.375 align:start SAHUARIPA IS JUST A CLASSIC CASE OF A RANCH 08:13.375 --> 08:17.542 align:start TOWN IN EASTERN SONORA IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THE SIERRA MADRE. 08:17.542 --> 08:21.250 align:start THE TOWN IS OLD AND THE HOUSES WERE BUILT IN 08:21.250 --> 08:24.334 align:start CLASSIC COLONIAL STALL, WALL TO WALL. 08:24.334 --> 08:25.626 align:start THERE'S NO SET BACKS. 08:25.626 --> 08:28.042 align:start THE DOORS OPEN INTO THE STREETS AND PEOPLE HAVE 08:28.042 --> 08:29.999 align:start PATIOS IN THEIR HOUSES. 08:29.999 --> 08:32.918 align:start THERE ARE STILL HORSES AND COWS EVERYWHERE AROUND THE 08:32.918 --> 08:35.999 align:start TOWN AND YOU SEE THINGS LIKE PLOWS JUST SITTING 08:35.999 --> 08:37.125 align:start AROUND IN THE TOWN. 08:37.125 --> 08:39.501 align:start THAT SHOWS IT'S REALLY AN AGRARIAN PLACE. 08:39.501 --> 08:42.292 align:start IN RECENT YEARS PEOPLE HAVE REALLY GOTTEN INTO 08:42.292 --> 08:45.667 align:start COLORS SO RATHER THAN HAVE JUST THE UNIFORM SORT OF 08:45.667 --> 08:47.999 align:start WHITE OR OFF WHITE IN ADOBE, 08:47.999 --> 08:50.999 align:start NOW YOU SEE ALL KINDS OF DAZZLING COLORS. 08:50.999 --> 08:53.292 align:start THEY'VE SPRUCED UP THE PLACE QUITE A BIT. 08:53.292 --> 08:56.209 align:start THERE'S EVEN SOME STATUES AND AS MANDATORY IN MOST 08:56.209 --> 08:59.459 align:start MEXICAN TOWNS THE PORTRAIT OR A BUST OF BENITO 08:59.459 --> 09:03.083 align:start JUAREZ, THE GREAT PRESIDENT OF MEXICO. 09:03.083 --> 09:05.709 align:start BUT SAHUARIPA IS MORE THAN ANYTHING 09:05.709 --> 09:09.751 align:start A PLACE WHERE YOU SEE LOCAL STUFF. 09:09.751 --> 09:12.999 align:start RAMON, A COWBOY, IS WEARING THE CLASSIC 09:12.999 --> 09:16.375 align:start FOOTWEAR OF THE SIERRA COWBOY. 09:16.375 --> 09:19.167 align:start YOU CAN WALK FOREVER IN THEM AND THEY HAVE A POINTED TOE 09:19.167 --> 09:22.042 align:start WHICH MAKES IT EASY TO GET IN AND OUT OF THE STIRRUP. 09:22.042 --> 09:24.667 align:start THEY'RE ACTUALLY BETTER THAN BOOTS. 09:24.667 --> 09:28.083 align:start FEWER AND FEWER COWBOYS WEAR THEM NOWADAYS BECAUSE 09:28.083 --> 09:30.999 align:start IT'S MORE STYLISH TO WEAR BOOTS BUTTEJUASARE THE 09:30.999 --> 09:33.375 align:start BEST THING YOU CAN GET FOR WALKING AROUND THE SIERRAS 09:33.375 --> 09:44.334 align:start IF YOU'RE A COWBOY AND NEED A HORSE. 09:44.334 --> 09:47.167 align:start THERE'S ONLY ONE BIG LEATHER SHOP LEFT IN 09:47.167 --> 09:51.334 align:start SAHUARIPA, A COUPLE SMALLER ONES. 09:51.334 --> 09:55.167 align:start THERE'S NO SIGNS BUT THEY TOLD ME TO LOOK FOR A 09:55.167 --> 09:59.250 align:start PLACE THAT HAD FLAGSTONE AND HERE IT IS. 09:59.250 --> 10:02.083 align:start LOCALLY CUT FLAGSTONE, BOY, THAT'S HANDSOME STUFF. 10:02.083 --> 10:04.584 align:start BUT THAT'S HOW THEY MARK IT. 10:04.584 --> 10:09.501 align:start NO SIGN AND HERE'S BETO PACHECO'S PLACE. 10:09.501 --> 10:15.959 align:start [SPANISH] SO I'M GOING TO TRY THEM ON. 10:15.959 --> 10:23.000 align:start [SPANISH] SO HE ONLY HAS ONE PAIR. LET'S SEE. 10:23.000 --> 10:27.292 align:start THESE ARE THE REALTEJUAS. LOOK AT THIS. 10:27.292 --> 10:30.918 align:start THESE ARE ONE PIECE OF LEATHER NAILED DOWN AND 10:30.918 --> 10:36.209 align:start THE SOLE VERY, VERY GOOD USED TIRE. 10:36.209 --> 10:39.542 align:start SO IT'S ALL LOCAL MATERIALS AND THE 10:39.542 --> 10:44.834 align:start SHOELACES ARE JUST PIECES OF RAWHIDE THAT HAVE BEEN CUT OUT. 10:44.834 --> 10:50.167 align:start WELL, THIS IS A SIZE 8 AND I'M GOING TO SEE IF I'M LUCKY. 10:50.167 --> 10:52.709 align:start [SPANISH] SO THESE ARE REALLY EXPENSIVE HERE. 10:52.709 --> 10:59.751 align:start THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT LESS THAN $30. IF I'M LUCKY. 10:59.751 --> 11:05.125 align:start THE ONE PAIR AND I THINK THEY FIT. 11:05.125 --> 11:09.876 align:start THE LEATHER SHOP IN EACH TOWN IS CALLED ATALABARTERIA. 11:09.876 --> 11:13.834 align:start IN THE MOUNTAINS OF SONORA AND SONORAN RANCHING 11:13.834 --> 11:16.999 align:start TOWNS, EVERYONE, EVERY TOWN HAD ONE OR TWO OR 11:16.999 --> 11:20.542 align:start EVEN THREE LEATHER WORKING SHOPS TO MAKE SADDLES, 11:20.542 --> 11:25.959 align:start BELTS, TRAPPINGS FOR HORSE RIDING AND IN THE SIERRAS 11:25.959 --> 11:29.834 align:start IT WAS THE ONLY SOURCE OF SHOES BECAUSE THEY 11:29.834 --> 11:33.501 align:start COULDN'T GET OUT OF THE TOWN SO PEOPLE LEARNED TO 11:33.501 --> 11:36.999 align:start MAKE THESETEJUASAND IT MAY HAVE BEEN THAT THE 11:36.999 --> 11:39.999 align:start OPATAS WHO LIVED HERE BEFORE MADE THEM OUT OF DEER. 11:39.999 --> 11:44.999 align:start AND SO THE DESIGN MAY HAVE BEEN EVEN INDIGENOUS. 11:44.999 --> 11:48.292 align:start BU THESE ARE VERY FINE AND VERY COMFORTABLE. 11:48.292 --> 11:51.375 align:start [SPANISH] WE'VE GOT PROBABLY FOUR GENERATIONS 11:51.375 --> 11:53.999 align:start THAT HAVE BEEN MAKING THESE HERE IN SAHUARIPA. 11:53.999 --> 11:57.083 align:start JUAN CARLOS WHO MADE THESE LEARNED FROM HIS 11:57.083 --> 12:00.375 align:start GRANDFATHER BETO PACHECO AND I HAVE TO SAY WHEN I 12:00.375 --> 12:03.709 align:start CAME HERE IN 1989 I WAS LOOKING FORTEJUAS. 12:03.709 --> 12:06.876 align:start EVERYBODY TOLD ME, IF YOU WANTTEJUAS, 12:06.876 --> 12:10.751 align:start GO FIND BETO PACHECO IN SAHUARIPA. HE MAKES THE BEST. 12:10.751 --> 12:15.000 align:start WELL, I WENT LOOKING FOR HIM BUT HIS PLACE WAS CLOSED. 12:15.000 --> 12:19.876 align:start SO HERE I AM OVER 20 YEARS LATER AND HIS GRANDSON 12:19.876 --> 12:22.042 align:start JUAN CARLOS IS MAKING THESETEJUAS 12:22.042 --> 12:23.542 align:start AND I'M TAKING THEM WITH ME. 12:23.542 --> 12:25.792 align:start THE TRUE INDIGENOUS CRAFT FOR WHICH EASTERN SONORAN 12:25.792 --> 12:30.999 align:start TOWNS HAVE BEEN NOTED FOR CENTURIES ARETEJUASAND 12:30.999 --> 12:35.042 align:start WOVEN HATS AND BASKETS MADE OF PALM AND 12:35.042 --> 12:40.542 align:start TRADITIONAL CRAFTS ARE FAST DISAPPEARING. 12:40.542 --> 12:43.999 align:start THERE'S ONLY ONE WOMAN LEFT WHO MAKES PALM HATS 12:43.999 --> 12:46.125 align:start AND BASKETS IN SAHUARIPA. 12:46.125 --> 12:50.959 align:start I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR HER. HER NAME IS EMILIANO DOROME. 12:50.959 --> 12:52.792 align:start IT'S A GREAT OPATA NAME. 12:52.792 --> 12:56.834 align:start THEY SAID THERE'S A VIRGIN AND AN ORGAN PIPE SO THIS 12:56.834 --> 12:59.083 align:start MUST BE THE PLACE. BUENOS DIAS. 12:59.083 --> 13:11.667 align:start [SPANISH] SO SHE HAS BEEN MAKING THESE HATS FOR OVER 60 YEARS. 13:11.667 --> 13:14.999 align:start SHE WAS 12 YEARS WHEN SHE STARTED MAKING THEM 13:14.999 --> 13:18.999 align:start AND SHE'S STILL DOING THEM. SO SHE LEARNED FROM HER MOTHER 13:18.999 --> 13:23.083 align:start BUT THEY LEARNED WATCHING HER, NOT DOING IT. 13:23.083 --> 13:30.125 align:start [SPANISH] SO SHE HAS CHILDREN THAT BRING THE PALM FOR HER, 13:30.125 --> 13:35.999 align:start THE BUNCHES OF PALM LIKE THIS AND SHE THEN SPLITS IT. 13:35.999 --> 13:40.167 align:start SHE CAN'T WEAVE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE IT'S WINTERTIME 13:40.167 --> 13:41.542 align:start AND IT'S TOO DRY. 13:41.542 --> 13:48.083 align:start [SPANISH] THIS IS THE IDEAL BASKET FOR TORTILLAS 13:48.083 --> 13:50.459 align:start BECAUSE IT HAS A TOP, THESE FIT IN, 13:50.459 --> 13:54.999 align:start THEY WON'T BE DAMAGED IN PUTTING THE TOP ON, 13:54.999 --> 13:58.959 align:start THEN THEY GET PROTECTED FROM FLIES AND OTHER DAMAGE. 13:58.959 --> 14:03.459 align:start [SPANISH] THIS IS FOR RANCH CHEESE AND IT'S ROUNDISH. 14:03.459 --> 14:08.709 align:start [SPANISH] WHEN THEY PUT THE FRESH CHEESE IN HERE 14:08.709 --> 14:12.167 align:start IT GETS KIND OF HEAVY SO IT ACTUALLY HAS A 14:12.167 --> 14:18.584 align:start REINFORCED RIM SO YOU CAN CARRY IT LIKE THIS AND IT WON'T BREAK. 14:18.584 --> 14:23.334 align:start [SPANISH] SO IN TWO DAYS SHE CAN MAKE A BASKET LIKE THIS. 14:23.334 --> 14:29.999 align:start [SPANISH] SO SHE'LL SELL THIS 50, 14:29.999 --> 14:34.042 align:start 70 PESOS SO THAT'S NOT MUCH WORK FOR TWO DAYS. 14:34.042 --> 14:37.584 align:start WOMEN LIKE TO USE THIS KIND FOR JEWELRY AND THEN 14:37.584 --> 14:41.125 align:start CHILDREN CAN KEEP LITTLE TOYS AND TRINKETS IN IT AS WELL. 14:41.125 --> 14:44.167 align:start AND IT'S GOT A TOP SO THAT THINGS DON'T FALL OUT. 14:44.167 --> 14:46.918 align:start YOU CAN KEEP THEM MORE OR LESS SECURE. 14:46.918 --> 14:49.292 align:start SO SHE'S REALLY THE LAST PERSON WHO MAKES THE HATS. 14:49.292 --> 14:51.876 align:start SHE HAS A DAUGHTER WHO'LL MAKE THE BASKETS. 14:51.876 --> 14:54.375 align:start THERE'S ANOTHER WOMAN WHO MAKES LITTLE PALM 14:54.375 --> 14:57.667 align:start MATTRESSES, MATTRESS PADS BUT WHEN SHE GOES, 14:57.667 --> 15:00.751 align:start THERE'LL BE NO MORE OF THESE FINE HATS. 15:00.751 --> 15:05.751 align:start THIS IS A TRIBUTE TO MRS. DOROME'S LATE HUSBAND. 15:05.751 --> 15:09.250 align:start HERE IS HIS PHOTOGRAPH AND THIS LITTLE SHRINE TO HIM 15:09.250 --> 15:14.375 align:start BUT SHE MADE THIS SMALL HAT AS A TRIBUTE TO HIS 15:14.375 --> 15:17.167 align:start MEMORY AND THIS IS HER LITTLE SHRINE, 15:17.167 --> 15:22.334 align:start HER LITTLE ALTAR ON THE WALL OF HER HOUSE. 15:22.334 --> 15:25.709 align:start THE SAHUARIPA VALLEY IS VINTAGE SONORAN RANCH COUNTRY. 15:25.709 --> 15:29.626 align:start RANCH HEADQUARTERS ARE ALWAYS LOCATED WHERE WELLS. 15:29.626 --> 15:37.375 align:start AND RANCHO LA QUIVA IS NO DIFFERENT. ANOTHER WELL. 15:37.375 --> 15:43.999 align:start OH, THAT'S DEEP. VERY DEEP. 15:43.999 --> 15:47.918 align:start THAT ONE MUST BE TEN METERS DEEP. IT'S WAY DOWN. 15:47.918 --> 15:51.584 align:start IT'S AT LEAST TEN. DO YOU THINK THIS BUCKET'S GOING TO WORK? 15:51.584 --> 15:55.459 align:start IT'S FULL OF HOLES. LET'S FIND OUT. YEAH, LET'S FIND OUT. 15:55.459 --> 15:57.209 align:start YOU GOT IT? YEP. ALL RIGHT. 15:57.209 --> 16:02.417 align:start THIS IS GETTING WATER THE OLD WAY. 16:02.417 --> 16:07.000 align:start ALL RIGHT, IT HIT. BOY, THAT'S A LONG WAY DOWN. 16:07.000 --> 16:08.999 align:start WHEN YOU'RE PULLING UP BUCKETS OF WATER, 16:08.999 --> 16:11.501 align:start IT'S GOOD TO HAVE SOMEBODY WHO'S REALLY STRONG UNLESS 16:11.501 --> 16:13.999 align:start YOU WANT TO DEVELOP UPPER BODY STRENGTH. 16:13.999 --> 16:15.626 align:start IF YOU HAVE A USED PAINT BUCKET, 16:15.626 --> 16:18.167 align:start IT'S THE BEST AND A COUPLE OF HOLES AERATES THE 16:18.167 --> 16:22.417 align:start WATER, MAKES IT A LITTLE BIT COOLER. BUT THERE YOU HAVE IT. 16:22.417 --> 16:24.999 align:start IF IT WEREN'T FOR ALL THE LEAVES, 16:24.999 --> 16:28.709 align:start IT'S PROBABLY PRETTY GOOD DRINKING WATER. 16:28.709 --> 16:30.250 align:start SO WHAT DO THESE BRANDS MEAN? 16:30.250 --> 16:32.999 align:start THEY'RE MOSTLY SYMBOLS BUT SOME OF THEM YOU CAN READ THEM. 16:32.999 --> 16:35.999 align:start LIKE THIS ONE IS AN S, AN R. 16:35.999 --> 16:37.584 align:start A BACKWARDS R, UH HUH. UH HUH. 16:37.584 --> 16:39.999 align:start SO THAT COULD WELL BE THE SYMBOL OF THE CAVE THEN, 16:39.999 --> 16:41.792 align:start THIS IS RANCHO LAS QUIVAS OR THE CAVE 16:41.792 --> 16:44.083 align:start AND THAT COULD COULD BE A CAVE POSSIBLY. 16:44.083 --> 16:47.042 align:start WHEN I'M IN THE MOUNTAINS AND I HEAR ABOUT CAVES, 16:47.042 --> 16:49.999 align:start I FEEL COMPELLED TO CHECK THEM OUT, 16:49.999 --> 16:52.999 align:start EVEN IF I'M FORCED TO RIDE ON MULE BACK. 16:52.999 --> 16:56.792 align:start AFTER ALL, I MIGHT FIND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES, 16:56.792 --> 17:03.125 align:start RARE ANIMALS OR EVEN UNUSUAL BATS. 17:03.125 --> 17:06.918 align:start SO WE'RE HEADING TO A CAVE WHICH THE RANCH IS NAMED AFTER. 17:06.918 --> 17:12.083 align:start THERE'S A PROCESSION OF US AND I GOT THE GENTLEST ANIMAL. 17:12.083 --> 17:15.167 align:start OF COURSE, SHE'S A MULE AND I CALLED HER SAL 17:15.167 --> 17:18.999 align:start BECAUSE MEXICANS DON'T NAME THEIR MULES OR THEIR DONKEYS, 17:18.999 --> 17:21.334 align:start ONLY THEIR HORSES. BUT I GOT A MULE AND HER NAME IS SAL. 17:21.334 --> 17:25.501 align:start 15 MILES ON THE ERIE CANAL. SO SAL, LET'S SEE IF WE CAN GO. 17:25.501 --> 17:31.667 align:start HEY, SAL, HEY, LET'S GO. ADENANTE. 17:31.667 --> 17:34.999 align:start YOU CAN EASILY LOSE YOUR FOOT IF YOU WALK SO IT 17:34.999 --> 17:37.584 align:start REALLY IS BETTER TO BE ON HORSEBACK, 17:37.584 --> 17:40.375 align:start IF YOU CAN'T BE IN A CAR OR A VEHICLE. 17:40.375 --> 17:43.999 align:start IF YOU'RE ALSO RIDING, THERE'S ABOUT 40 DIFFERENT 17:43.999 --> 17:45.999 align:start KINDS OF TREES AND SHRUBS THAT HAVE THORNS AND 17:45.999 --> 17:50.999 align:start SPINES AND STAVES THAT GRAB YOU AND TRY TO KEEP YOU FROM GOING. 17:50.999 --> 17:54.209 align:start IT'S REALLY RUGGED, MEAN COUNTRY. 17:54.209 --> 17:57.959 align:start AND I'M FOLLOWING TWO PRETTY SPIRITED HORSES. 17:57.959 --> 18:01.999 align:start OKAY, THIS WINTER HAS BEEN REALLY DRY, RIGHT? 18:01.999 --> 18:04.999 align:start YES BUT THE SUMMER WAS EVEN WORSE. IT WAS WORSE. 18:04.999 --> 18:08.999 align:start SO YOU GET A BAD SUMMER, BAD WINTER, 18:08.999 --> 18:11.250 align:start WHAT DO THE RANCHERS DO TO COPE? 18:11.250 --> 18:14.999 align:start THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SELL PART OF HIS CATTLE TO 18:14.999 --> 18:18.292 align:start SUPPORT THE RANCH AND TRY TO KEEP THE CATTLE THAT 18:18.292 --> 18:20.999 align:start THEY'RE GOING TO LEAVE HERE IN GOOD SHAPE. 18:20.999 --> 18:23.999 align:start IT TAKES A LONG TIME TO BUILD UP A HERD, RIGHT? 18:23.999 --> 18:25.417 align:start YES, IT'S GOING TO TAKE AWHILE. 18:25.417 --> 18:27.959 align:start IN THIS PART OF THE SIERRA, RAYNALDO, 18:27.959 --> 18:30.334 align:start WAS THIS REALLY, THERE AREN'T ANY ROADS. 18:30.334 --> 18:32.918 align:start YOU ALMOST HAVE TO GO BY HORSEBACK 18:32.918 --> 18:33.999 align:start TO GET INTO THEM, RIGHT? 18:33.999 --> 18:35.375 align:start YEAH, ACTUALLY THIS ROAD THAT 18:35.375 --> 18:37.125 align:start WE'VE BEEN DRIVING IS PRETTY NEW. 18:37.125 --> 18:40.292 align:start ABOUT 30 YEARS AGO THERE WASN'T ANY ROAD THAT CAME THROUGH HERE. 18:40.292 --> 18:42.834 align:start SO THAT ONE ROAD SERVES THE ENTIRE AREA AND 18:42.834 --> 18:47.083 align:start OTHERWISE YOU'VE GOT TO GO ON FOOT OR BY HORSE. YES. 18:47.083 --> 18:48.959 align:start WELL, I LIKE BEING ON HORSE. 18:48.959 --> 18:51.626 align:start ACTUALLY I SHOULD SAY I LIKE BEING ON MULE. 18:51.626 --> 18:54.000 align:start YEAH, MULES ARE PRETTY GOOD FOR RIDING AND 18:54.000 --> 18:56.999 align:start THEY'RE GOOD FOR PACKING. 18:56.999 --> 19:00.209 align:start YEAH, THEY CAN CARRY A LOT OF WEIGHT, RIGHT? 19:00.209 --> 19:01.334 align:start YEAH, BEFORE THEY BUILD THE ROAD, 19:01.334 --> 19:03.709 align:start THE ONLY WAY TO BRING THEIR SUPPLIERS FOR THE 19:03.709 --> 19:05.417 align:start RANCHES WAS BY MULE OR DONKEYS. 19:05.417 --> 19:07.999 align:start ABOUT TEN YEARS AGO THE BEST WAY TO BRING THE 19:07.999 --> 19:11.626 align:start SUPPLIES AND EVERYTHING WAS BY LITTLE PLANES. 19:11.626 --> 19:13.999 align:start WELL, YEAH, BUT THAT COSTS YOU A LOT. 19:13.999 --> 19:16.292 align:start YOU'VE GOT TO BE FAIRLY WELL OFF TO DO THAT. 19:16.292 --> 19:19.918 align:start YEAH, WELL, THE RANCHES USED TO DO PRETTY WELL 20 YEARS AGO. 19:19.918 --> 19:22.709 align:start WHAT IS THIS CAVE LIKE THAT THE RANCH IS NAMED 19:22.709 --> 19:23.834 align:start AFTER THAT WE'RE GOING TO? 19:23.834 --> 19:25.417 align:start WELL, I THINK THEY USED TO STAY, 19:25.417 --> 19:27.542 align:start SPEND THE NIGHTS IN THERE... 19:27.542 --> 19:30.375 align:start OH, REALLY. ...IF THERE'D BE TROUBLE AROUND RANCHES. 19:30.375 --> 19:33.334 align:start OKAY, IT'S A... A COVER FOR RAIN AND THE COLD. 19:33.334 --> 19:35.959 align:start ON A SUMMER'S DAY IT PROBABLY WOULD BE 19:35.959 --> 19:37.042 align:start A GOOD TIME TO COME UP HERE. 19:37.042 --> 19:39.209 align:start THE TEMPERATURE DOWN AT THE RANCH IN AUGUST IS 19:39.209 --> 19:42.542 align:start GOING TO BE 105 AND UP HERE IT WOULD ONLY BE 95. 19:42.542 --> 19:48.292 align:start LUCO TELLS ME THEY CALL THIS THESIERRA DE GUANO. SI. 19:48.292 --> 19:50.292 align:start AND IT'S THE CUEVO DE GUANO, 19:50.292 --> 19:55.999 align:start THEY LEAVE THE BAT MANURE BEHIND OR THEGUANO. UH HUH. 19:55.999 --> 19:59.876 align:start AND THE WHOLE RANGE GETS ITS NAME FROM THAT. 19:59.876 --> 20:03.125 align:start OKAY, I GIVE UP. OKAY, SAL, YOU WIN. I'M GETTING OFF. 20:03.125 --> 20:07.999 align:start I DON'T THINK I WAS MADE TO SIT MORE THAN 20:07.999 --> 20:14.709 align:start 15 MINUTES ON TOP OF A HORSE. WHOA, LOOK AT THAT. 20:14.709 --> 20:20.834 align:start SO THIS IS THE FAMED "BAT CAVE",CUEVO DE GUANO. 20:20.834 --> 20:24.209 align:start THIS ISLA CUEVA DE GUANO. 20:24.209 --> 20:26.999 align:start YOU KNOW I CAN ALREADY SMELL THEGUANO. 20:26.999 --> 20:29.999 align:start IT'S CLEARLY OCCUPIED BY BATS. 20:29.999 --> 20:32.584 align:start DO PEOPLE TAKE THIS STUFF OUT FOR FERTILIZER? 20:32.584 --> 20:34.292 align:start NO, I DON'T THINK SO. 20:34.292 --> 20:37.083 align:start IT'S KIND OF FAR AWAY TO HERE. IT IS A LONG WAY 20:37.083 --> 20:39.459 align:start BUT BOY A BAG OF IT COULD MAKE YOUR GARDEN GROW. 20:39.459 --> 20:42.999 align:start WELL, IT'S A BIG ENOUGH CAVE. IT IS. IT GOES PRETTY DEEP. 20:42.999 --> 20:44.834 align:start YEAH, IT GOES WAY UP THERE BUT I THINK THE AIR IS SO 20:44.834 --> 20:47.999 align:start FULL OF THE AMMONIA THAT THE ORDER FROM THE GUANO... 20:47.999 --> 20:51.584 align:start YEAH, THEREFORE IT IS NOT A PLACE TO STAY FOR A LONG TIME. 20:51.584 --> 20:56.000 align:start NO, GET OUT OF THE RAIN AND WHEN IT STOPS, DO WHAT I'M DOING. 20:56.000 --> 21:00.209 align:start GET OUT AND MOVE ON TO SOMEWHERE WHERE THE AIR IS A LITTLE PURER. 21:00.209 --> 21:02.626 align:start WE'VE GOT OTHER PLACES TO GO ANYWAY. 21:02.626 --> 21:15.083 align:start A RANCH BUILDING MADE OF PALM TRUNKS GOES UP A LOT 21:15.083 --> 21:19.542 align:start FASTER THAN ONE MADE OF ADOBE. 21:19.542 --> 21:22.542 align:start WHEN YOU LIVE ON A RANCH THAT'S EIGHT OR NINE HOURS 21:22.542 --> 21:26.292 align:start BY HORSEBACK FROM THE NEAREST TOWN, 21:26.292 --> 21:29.459 align:start YOU'VE GOT TO USE THE MATERIALS THAT YOU HAVE AVAILABLE. 21:29.459 --> 21:30.999 align:start IN THIS CASE THERE ARE MANY, 21:30.999 --> 21:33.999 align:start MANY PALMS AND SO THE BUILDER HERE HAS SPLIT THE 21:33.999 --> 21:36.334 align:start PALM LOGS AND MADE THE SIDING AND PALM THATCHING 21:36.334 --> 21:39.999 align:start FOR THE TOP WITH A LITTLE HELP OF MORE OR LESS 21:39.999 --> 21:41.375 align:start MODERN GALVANIZED ROOFING. 21:41.375 --> 21:44.834 align:start AND THEN ON THE TOP THEY USE MESQUITE LOGS TO HOLD 21:44.834 --> 21:45.834 align:start EVERYTHING DOWN. 21:45.834 --> 21:47.626 align:start IT'S VERY LOCAL CONSTRUCTION, 21:47.626 --> 21:54.834 align:start CHEAP AND COOL INSIDE. 21:54.834 --> 21:57.918 align:start [DOG BARKS] LIFE ON A RANCH IN CENTRAL SONORA 21:57.918 --> 21:59.125 align:start CAN BE VERY, VERY TOUGH. 21:59.125 --> 22:02.292 align:start A MAN'S WORK IS NEVER DONE AND SO WHEN RELAXATION IS 22:02.292 --> 22:08.375 align:start AVAILABLE, EVEN IF IT'S ON AN OLD TIRE, YOU'VE GOT TO USE IT. 22:08.375 --> 22:17.292 align:start YOU'VE GOT TO GO FOR ALL THE RELAXATION YOU CAN GET. 22:17.292 --> 22:21.209 align:start THE SAHUARIPA VALLEY LIES EAST OF THE RIO YAQUI 22:21.209 --> 22:24.042 align:start WHICH ISOLATED IT FROM THE REST OF THE STATE OF 22:24.042 --> 22:27.459 align:start SONORA UNTIL A BRIDGE WAS BUILT. 22:27.459 --> 22:31.584 align:start THAT ISOLATION HAS PROVEN IDEAL 22:31.584 --> 22:47.959 align:start FOR THE SOUTHERNMOST NESTING BALD EAGLES. 22:47.959 --> 22:51.999 align:start THE ARROYO SAHUARIPA FLOWS NORTH OUT OF THE SIERRA MADRE 22:51.999 --> 22:54.999 align:start UP INTO THE RIO YAQUI. WHEN THE EUROPEANS ARRIVED HERE, 22:54.999 --> 22:58.083 align:start THERE WERE A NUMBER OF INDIAN TOWNS ALREADY HERE. 22:58.083 --> 23:01.375 align:start SAHUARIPA WAS AN OPATA INDIAN TOWN. 23:01.375 --> 23:02.667 align:start A COUPLE OF OTHER SMALL TOWNS, 23:02.667 --> 23:05.250 align:start ARIVECHI AND TACUPETO, WERE THERE AND ARE STILL THERE. 23:05.250 --> 23:07.959 align:start SAHUARIPA IS DOING OKAY BUT THE OTHER TWO TOWNS 23:07.959 --> 23:10.083 align:start WEREN'T REAL THRIVING. 23:10.083 --> 23:12.999 align:start BUT ARIVECHI HAS THE DISTINCTION OF HAVING 23:12.999 --> 23:16.167 align:start SOMETHING IN IT THAT BRINGS PEOPLE HERE FROM 23:16.167 --> 23:18.334 align:start ALL OVER THE REPUBLIC TO SEE. 23:18.334 --> 23:20.999 align:start THERE YOU CAN SEE THE STEEPLES OF THAT VERY 23:20.999 --> 23:27.083 align:start NEW AND DIFFERENT CHURCH. IT'S ORIGIN IS VERY INTERESTING. 23:27.083 --> 23:29.667 align:start THERE'S A TRADITION IN SONORAN POLITICS THAT THE 23:29.667 --> 23:32.292 align:start GOVERNOR LAVISHES MONEY ON HIS COMMUNITY. 23:32.292 --> 23:36.000 align:start IN THE 1980S THE GOVERNOR OF SONORA, GOVERNOR OCAÑA, 23:36.000 --> 23:38.999 align:start WAS FROM ARIVECHI AND HE DECIDED THAT HIS TOWN, 23:38.999 --> 23:42.417 align:start ARIVECHI, SHOULD HAVE THE BEST KIOSK IN ALL OF 23:42.417 --> 23:47.250 align:start MEXICOANDA BEAUTIFUL CHURCH AND THE TOWN GOT WHAT HE WANTED. 23:47.250 --> 23:52.167 align:start IF YOU LOOK UP INTO THE TILES IN THE DOME, 23:52.167 --> 23:55.584 align:start THEY'RE TRANSLUCENT AND THE THEMES THERE ARE ALL 23:55.584 --> 23:56.999 align:start DESERT AND LOCAL THEMES. 23:56.999 --> 23:59.999 align:start YOU SEE THEHECHOCACTUS WHICH GIVES ITS GREAT FRUIT, 23:59.999 --> 24:04.667 align:start AGAVESFROM WHICH THEBACA DORA, THE LOCAL LIQUOR IS MADE. 24:04.667 --> 24:07.999 align:start YOU SEE DEER AND YOU SEE ALMOST ABOVE ALL OF IT, 24:07.999 --> 24:10.584 align:start PALMS, THE DATE PALMS WHICH EUROPEANS BROUGHT 24:10.584 --> 24:14.375 align:start AND THE PALMS FROM WHICH LOCAL MAKE BASKETS AND HATS. 24:14.375 --> 24:15.999 align:start IT'S A COMBINATION OF DESERT, 24:15.999 --> 24:22.501 align:start INDIGENOUS THEMES WITH MOORISH ARCHITECTURE. 24:22.501 --> 24:25.751 align:start THE THEME AND THE STYLE OF THE KIOSK MAY BE SPANISH 24:25.751 --> 24:31.417 align:start AND MOORISH IN ORIGIN BUT THE COLORS ARE DISTINCTLY MEXICAN. 24:31.417 --> 24:35.125 align:start THE RED, GREEN AND WHITE OF THE MEXICAN FLAG 24:35.125 --> 24:39.083 align:start MAKES IT A PATRIOTIC PLACE. 24:39.083 --> 24:42.417 align:start THE TOWN OF SAHUARIPA IS ONE OF THE FEW PLACES LEFT 24:42.417 --> 24:46.459 align:start IN NORTHWEST MEXICO WHERE YOU CAN FIND A MIXTURE OF 24:46.459 --> 24:49.000 align:start THE OLD WAYS AND THE NEW WAYS. 24:49.000 --> 24:50.999 align:start THE ANCIENT ARTS OF LEATHER MAKING, 24:50.999 --> 24:54.459 align:start WEAVING PALM BASKETS AND HATS AND GRINDING POPCORN 24:54.459 --> 25:03.459 align:start UP TO MAKE PINOLE ARE STILL HERE IN SAHUARIPA, SONORA, MEXICO. 25:05.167 --> 25:07.959 align:start A HOST OF RIVERS, CREEKS, STREAMS AND AN EVEN 25:07.959 --> 25:11.375 align:start GREATER ARRAY OF CANYONS... 25:11.375 --> 25:14.417 align:start IT GETS A LITTLE NARROWER... 25:14.417 --> 25:17.501 align:start CREATE THE MAN-MADE MARVEL KNOWN AS LAKE POWELL. 25:17.501 --> 25:20.709 align:start SO THERE'S LABYRINTHIAN CANYON... 25:20.709 --> 25:22.999 align:start NOW IMMERSED BELOW THE PLACID SURFACE LIES SOME 25:22.999 --> 25:25.334 align:start OF THE MOST SPECTACULAR CANYON COUNTRY ON EARTH. 25:25.334 --> 25:27.459 align:start COUNTRY THE DENAI OR NAVAJOS ONCE CALLED HOME. 25:27.459 --> 25:30.042 align:start SOMETHING DRASTIC CAUSES THE SAND DUNE TO SHIFT... 25:30.042 --> 25:32.999 align:start NEXT TIME ON THE DESERT SPEAKS. 25:32.999 --> 25:35.751 align:start THIS IS A TRADITIONAL KITCHEN IN THE OUTSKIRTS 25:35.751 --> 25:38.000 align:start OF SAHUARIPA AND THE FOOD IS TRADITIONAL FOOD. 25:38.000 --> 25:40.292 align:start GREEN CHILES AND GREEN ONIONS AND THERE IS 25:40.292 --> 25:47.584 align:start NOTHING IN THE WORLD THAT COULD BE MUCH BETTER. 25:47.584 --> 25:51.667 align:start I'M GOING TO STIR THEM SO THAT THEY DON'T BURN. 25:51.667 --> 25:55.709 align:start AND THEY WON'T BE FOR ME BUT I ENVY WHOEVER GETS 25:55.709 --> 25:58.999 align:start THE PRIVILEGE OF EATING THEM. 26:00.167 --> 26:04.959 align:start FUNDING FOR THE DESERT SPEAKS IS PROVIDED BY 26:04.959 --> 26:06.667 align:start DESERT PROGRAM PARTNERS. 26:06.667 --> 26:09.417 align:start REPRESENTING CONCERNED VIEWERS MAKING A FINANCIAL COMMITTMENT 26:09.417 --> 26:14.292 align:start TO THE EDUCATION ABOUT AND PRESERVATION OF DESERTS 26:14.292 --> 26:18.542 align:start AND BY THE STONEWALL FOUNDATION.