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Jegos. Website. www.tocc.edu. Tohono O'odham Community College (TOCC) is a public tribal land-grant community college in Sells, Arizona. As of fall 2023, TOCC's student body was 96 percent American Indian/Alaskan Native. Tohono O'odham Community College serves approximately 1174 students (80 percent female; 20 percent male). As of 2012, the ...
The Tohono Oʼodham Nation[2] is the collective government body of the Tohono Oʼodham tribe in the United States. [2] The Tohono Oʼodham Nation governs four separate sections of land with a combined area of 2.8 million acres (11,330 km 2), approximately the size of Connecticut and the second largest Indigenous land holding in the United States.
The Tohono Oʼodham (/ təˈhoʊnoʊ ˈɔːtəm, - ˈoʊtəm / tə-HOH-noh AW-təm, - OH-təm, [2] O'odham: [ˈtɔhɔnɔ ˈʔɔʔɔd̪am]) are a Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the U.S. state of Arizona and the northern Mexican state of Sonora. The United States federally recognized tribe is the Tohono ...
With his business partner Tristan Reader, Terrol Johnson founded Tohono O'odham Community Action (TOCA) in 1996. The nonprofit community development organization operates a basketry cooperative, farms, and sells indigenous foods. [2] Tohono O'odham people have the highest rate of adult-onset diabetes of any ethnic group in the world. [5]
Juan-Saunders is from New Fields community in Chukut Kuk District of the Tohono O'odham Nation and is a former Miss Tohono O'odham Nation and later Miss Indian Arizona and in 1982 won the crown of Miss Indian America in Sheridan, Wyoming. She is the former vice president of Tohono O'odham Community College, which is located in Sells, Arizona. [2]
The San Xavier Indian Reservation (O’odham: Wa:k) is an Indian reservation of the Tohono O’odham Nation located near Tucson, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert. The San Xavier Reservation lies in the southwestern part of the Tucson metropolitan area and consists of 111.543 sq mi (288.90 km 2) of land area, about 2.5 percent of the Tohono O ...
The Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community supports the preservation of the Akimel O’odham and Xalchidom Piipaash languages through teaching and learning for everyone within the Community. It encourages all community members to preserve the Akimel O’odham and Xalchidom Piipaash languages within their homes (Council Resolution SR-2026 ...
Ofelia Zepeda (born in Stanfield, Arizona, 1952) is a Tohono O'odham poet and intellectual. She is Regents' Professor of Tohono O'odham language and linguistics and Director of the American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI) [2] at The University of Arizona. [3] Zepeda is the editor for Sun Tracks, a series of books that focuses on ...