The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens.

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its thorn-covered small fruit ...

The history of encounters between Catholicism and Native spirituality has often been marred by violence and oppression ...

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 ...

Standing in front of a room full of Tohono O’odham police officers, April Ignaico asked who was familiar with the Missing and ...

Francine Larson Segundo, of the Tohono Oʼodham nation, pulls a single saguaro cactus fruit during harvest season in Saguaro ...

Clayborne Thomas, of the Tohono Oʼodham nation, catches a fruit harvested from a saguaro cactus in Saguaro National Park near ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...