Ernesto Portillo Jr. Oct 22, 2016 Oct 22, 2016 Updated Oct 19, 2022 In O’odham the word for goat is siwat and ce:kol is squirrel. The word for brain is ‘uag. Wanna know the O’odham word for pencil? It ...

Throughout my whole life, I've always been taught to say "goodbye" because it's a polite way to end conversations. But in my culture, the way of the O'odham people, this word doesn't even exist. My ...

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 an Earth Day ...

Ofelia Zepeda is a renowned poet and linguist, and one of the world’s foremost experts on the Tohono O’odham language.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — Mission Garden in Tucson hosts a monthly talk that teaches community members how the Tohono O'odham people thrived thousands of years ago through agriculture. The Traditional ...

Tucson’s Mayor and Council approved renaming Christopher Columbus Park to Danny Lopez Park Wednesday in honor of the Tohono O'odham educator and elder who dedicated his life to preserving the Tohono O ...

A new language center at Tohono O’odham Community College is expected to open in May. In the foreground is a recently built amphitheater where ceremonial events are held. “We’re doing things to ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — The Tohono O’odham Nation Rodeo & Fair, Southern Arizona’s longest running all-Indian rodeo, returns for its 85th year Friday, Feb. 2, and runs through Sunday, Feb. 4, in Sells.

On a prayer run along the border, several Tohono O'odham activists discovered the destruction of a 1,000-year-old artifact.

TUCSON — Cousins Tanisha Tucker Lohse and Maria Francisco set off from their desert camp around dawn on most early summer days, in search of ripe fruit from the towering saguaro cactus, an icon of the ...