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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...