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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

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...

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...

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