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 fruit ripens.

TUCSON, Ariz. — Cousins Tanisha Tucker Lohse and Maria Francisco set off from their desert camp around dawn on most early ...

Ofelia Zepeda, a renowned poet and linguist, grew up in poverty working in Arizona’s cotton fields. Zepeda became a leading expert on the Tohono O’odham language and a regents professor at the ...

The Tohono O’odham language is at risk of disappearing, with far fewer people speaking it today. To help keep it alive, the Tohono O’odham Nation has opened the O’odham Ňi’okĭ Ki ...

Monument Hill is one of several sites of archaeological and cultural significance to the O'odham people that is in the path of border wall construction. Tohono O'odham Nation Chairman Ned Norris ...

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.

President Paul Robertson of Tohono O’odham Community College and 21 faculty members and administrators signed an open letter on May 29, saying they stand in solidarity with the Palestinian ...