Victory Statues

Photo by Margaret Brown Vega. An indigenous figure, Kateri Tekakwitha, and a Catholic saint inside the San Xavier del Bac Mission in the Tohono O'odham Reservation near Tucson, Arizona. Kateri Tekakwitha was not O'odham, but Mohawk. After converting to Christianity she became a general symbol used in the missionization project of indigenous North American peoples. She was materialized as a portable statue that was transplanted to Arizona as an example to the O'odham.