Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Tohono O'odham girl growing up in the 1950s spent her formative years helping her farmworker family pick cotton in the fields in ...

Jacelle Ramon-Sauberan realized she wanted to learn her language better when she noticed it was difficult to communicate with her grandmother, and take in and remember the stories she shared. “I ...

Author, poet and seasoned professor Ofelia Zepeda was to be featured at the Tucson Festival of Books for her innovative preservation of Tohono O’odham language and culture through education and poetry ...

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SALT RIVER RESERVATION — Once a month, the elders of Salt River gather to nudge their dying language deeper into the modern world. Their attempts to save Akimel O'odham from a world overtaken by ...

When President Trump proposed a barrier along the southern border with Mexico, a Tohono O’odham elder famously declared that the tribe did not understand the concept, having no word for “wall” in ...

TUCSON (KVOA) — Pima County's new early voting sticker reads, "I voted," in English, Tohono O'odham and Spanish. The Pima County Recorders Office says they included the Tohono O'odham language to ...

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 ...