On a warm mid-November morning at the Tohono O’odham Community College, Leslie Luna, Tohono O’odham Legislative Council Gu Vo’o District Representative, spoke about the attrition of his language. “In ...

A Tohono O'odham girl growing up in the 1950s spent her formative years helping her farmworker family pick cotton in the fields in central Arizona. With a thirst for learning but few books at home, ...

A Tohono O’odham girl growing up in the 1950s spent her formative years helping her farmworker family pick cotton in the fields in central Arizona. With a thirst for learning but few books at home, ...

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 ...