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unusual facts about Tohono O'odham Community College


Tohono O'odham Community College

Vivian Juan-Saunders, former Vice President of Tohono O'odham Community College


Ammon M. Tenney

However the first on this mission went to the vicinity of Mesa, Arizona and rebaptized Encarnacion Valenzuela, a Papago who had been a member of the LDS Church for some years.

Arizona State Route 386

State Route 386, also known as SR 386, is a state highway in southern Arizona entirely within the Tohono O'odham Nation, traveling from State Route 86 to Kitt Peak National Observatory.

Cucurbita argyrosperma

It is also grown in the Sonoran Desert region of the Southwestern United States and Northwestern Mexico by native peoples, especially the Tohono O'odham, where it is especially prized when immature as a summer squash.

Dalea tentaculoides

There are only a few occurrences of this plant, some located in the Tohono O'odham Reservation and in the Coronado National Forest.

Haplogroup R-M173

In Indigenous Americans groups, R-M173 is the most common haplogroup after the various Q-M242, especially in North America in Ojibwe people at 79%, Chipewyan 62%, Seminole 50%, Cherokee 47%, Dogrib 40% and Papago 38%.

Morton v. Ruiz

Ramon Ruiz and his wife Anita were Papago Indians and U.S. citizens who in 1940 left the Papago reservation in Arizona to seek employment 15 miles away at the Phelps-Dodge copper mines at Ajo.

Ofelia Zepeda

Her book A Papago Grammar is the standard textbook used to teach the Tohono O'odham language.

Pamela Uschuk

She has also taught at Greenhaven Maximum Security Prison for Men in upstate New York and in Native American schools on the Salish, Sioux, Assiniboine, Northern Cheyenne, Flathead, Blackfeet, Crow, Tohono O'odham and Yaqui nations.

Papagos

Tohono O'odham, a Native American group formerly known as the Papago

Peter Warshall

He has worked as a consultant for the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in Ethiopia; for USAID and other organizations in ten other African nations; he has worked with the Tohono O'odham and Apache people of Arizona; and advised corporations such as Senco, Clorox, Trans Hygga, and SAS Airlines, as well as municipal governments such as the city of Malibu.

Vivian Juan-Saunders

Vivian Juan-Saunders (born?) is an American tribal leader who became the first woman to lead the Tohono O'odham nation of southern Arizona in 2003.


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