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Arizona Sonoran News

The buds are dumped into a pot and boiled until they become rubbery. (Photo by: Sammy Minsk/Arizona Sonora News)

Living off the land with the Tohono O’odham tribe

Sammy minsk May 4, 2018

What tastes like a mix between an asparagus and artichoke, has about the same amount of calcium as a glass of milk and is found in the Sonoran Desert? Ciolim, also known as "the cholla bud," is...

Tohono O’odham members and other southern tribe members hang a flag at the U.S.-Mexico border. Photo by Alejandaro Higuera.

For Native Americans, racism hits home

Sarah Covey November 15, 2017

  After over 500 years of broken treaties and forceful domination from European settlers and the U.S. government, Native Americans in Arizona today still face racism in the most intimate part...

A wall within a wall: How Trump's plan affects already divided Tohono O'odham nation

A wall within a wall: How Trump’s plan affects already divided Tohono O’odham nation

Lauren Renteria April 27, 2017

For the Tohono O'odham nation, a border wall already exists, it just hasn’t been built yet. In the desert of southern Arizona, the federally recognized O’odham reservation occupies 4,464 square...

Elisa Cazares and her grandson, Jacob Antone, stand alongside the 200 other Native American and indigenous participants at the Tucson Women’s March on January 21, 2017, in Tucson, Arizona. Cazares is wearing traditional O’odham dress. (Photo by: Steven Spooner / Arizona Daily Wildcat)

Native American women have something to say

Hailey Freeman March 3, 2017

Weaving through downtown streets during the Tucson Women’s March, an organized group of 200 people held homemade signs and shouted, “We are still here!” The group on Jan. 21 represented...

A young boy harvests cholla buds. Photo courtesy of TOCA.

Historical crops may be the future of sustainable agriculture

Gareth Farrell May 6, 2015

Two Southern Arizonan nonprofit organizations, Native Seeds/SEARCH and Tohono O’odham Community Action, are working to promote wild food sources and desert tolerant crops in the region.Before Arizona...

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