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- ↑ Cleere, Jan (18 August 2019). "Western Women: Maria Chona was Tohono O'odham healer, basket weaver".
- ↑ Lavender, Catherine Jane (2006). Scientists and Storytellers: Feminist Anthropologists and the Construction of the American Southwest. UNM Press. p. 121.
- ↑ Sonneborn, Liz (2014). A to Z of American Indian Women. Infobase Publishing. pp. Introduction: xiii.
- ↑ "Chona, Maria (1845–1936)". encyclopedia.com.
- ↑ Underhill, Ruth, ed. (1936). The Autobiography of a Papago Woman. Martino Fine Books. ISBN 9781614278993.