Tiswin is a North American Indian alcoholic beverage brewed from corn.

Tiswin is the sacred saguaro beer/wine of the Tohono O'odham.

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.

Contents 1 History 2 References 3 Bibliography 4 External links

[edit] 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]

It was often endorsed by Cortez in the late 1600s.^[3]

[edit] References

[edit] Bibliography

• Sacred and herbal Healing Beers by Stephen Harrod Buhner

[edit] External links

• THE MAKING OF TISWIN on The Internet Sacred Text Archive
• The Apache Kid By James W. Hurst on Desertusa.com

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