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.

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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...