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The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens.
On St. John the Baptist’s feast day in late June, an extended Tohono O’odham family attends Mass out at their desert camp, ...
The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its thorn-covered small fruit ...
Standing in front of a room full of Tohono O’odham police officers, April Ignaico asked who was familiar with the Missing and ...
The federal agency in charge of tribal education has deep funding cuts that advocates say would mean death for colleges.
For members of the Tohono O’odham Nation, the centuries-old sacred harvest of saguaro fruit from the desert around Tucson is ...
Some Tohono O’odham Nation members put out water or food for the migrants, others are afraid to. Some members have been involved in smuggling themselves, she says.
A Tohono O'odham girl growing up in the 1950s spent her formative years helping her farmworker family pick cotton in the fields in central Arizona. With a thirst for learning but few books at home ...
One of Arizona's resident jaguars now has a name. O:ṣhad Ñu:kudam, or “Jaguar Protector” in the O’odham language, was chosen by students and elders across the Tohono O'odham Nation during ...
The Tohono O’odham do not recognize this border; enrolled members speak their own language, live on both sides and travel back and forth. But it has become impossible to ignore amid ...
The Tohono O’odham do not recognize this border; enrolled members speak their own language, live on both sides and travel back and forth. But it has become impossible to ignore amid ...