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Message: <blockquote data-quote="cwgrizz" data-source="post: 709681" data-attributes="member: 27017">Maybe more history than tradition, but...........................Father Eusebio Francisco Kino was one of the early Spanish explorers of the deserts of the American Southwest.  Kino arrived in Mexico City in the spring of 1681. In 1683, he began his longtime mission to the Pima Indians in Pimeria Alta, a district comprising present-day southern Arizona and the northern portion of Sonora State in Mexico.  In 1687, Father Kino established his first mission among the rural Indians of Sonora at Nuestra Senora de los Dolores. It became the headquarters for his explorations, as well as for the founding of other missions, including San Xavier del Bac (1700) near Tucson, Guevavi and Tumacacori.Statue of Father Kino, located in Tucson, AZ[ATTACH=full]319155[/ATTACH]</blockquote>