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Tiswin
Tiswin (known as tesgüino and tejuino in Mexico) is an alcoholic beverage brewed from corn. Tiswin is also the sacred saguaro wine of the Tohono O'odham, a group of aboriginal Americans who reside primarily in the Sonoran Desert of the southeastern Arizona and northwest Mexico. The saguaro, the largest cactus in the world, is in many respects the sacred tree of the Tohono O'odham. From the fruit of the saguaro they make a sacred fermentation called tiswin or sometimes nawai.
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Tiswin (known as tesgüino and tejuino in Mexico) is an alcoholic beverage brewed from corn. Tiswin is also the sacred saguaro wine of the Tohono O'odham, a group of aboriginal Americans who reside primarily in the Sonoran Desert of the southeastern Arizona and northwest Mexico. The saguaro, the largest cactus in the world, is in many respects the sacred tree of the Tohono O'odham. From the fruit of the saguaro they make a sacred fermentation called tiswin or sometimes nawai.
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