Tohono O'odham

noun

To·​ho·​no O'odham tō-ˈhō-nō- 

plural Tohono O'odham

: a member of an Indigenous people of southwestern Arizona and northwestern Mexico

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Recent Examples on the Web

The potential range of the bird includes Pima, Santa Cruz, Cochise and Yuma counties, though most of the observed nests are in the Altar Valley, northeast from Sasabe, as well as the Tohono O'odham Nation lands and Avra Valley. —The Arizona Republic, 19 July 2023

The casino is going up on 110 acres of land that were taken into trust by the federal government for the Tohono O'odham Nation. —Corina Vanek, The Arizona Republic, 5 Apr. 2023

Some reference natural history, such as nearby Sentinel Peak, once the site of a major Tohono O'odham village. —Los Angeles Times, 26 Jan. 2023

Two years earlier, a few hundred miles to the south, astronomers and tribal guides from the surrounding Tohono O'odham nation had ridden on horseback to the top of Kitt Peak, exchanging Western and Indigenous star stories by a campfire at the summit. —Joshua Sokol, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2022

The University of Arizona -- which sits on lands once inhabited by the Pima, Yuman, Tohono O'odham, Navajo and Apache peoples -- received more than 143,000 acres as part of the Morrill Act and raised nearly $450,000 in endowment principal, according to High Country News data. —Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 29 June 2022

The Tohono O'odham reservation, which covers an area larger than Rhode Island and Delaware, has no home delivery and only one post office. —Michael Ritter, The Conversation, 1 July 2021

The desert oasis, which is home to endangered species like the Sonoyta pupfish and the mud turtle, is considered sacred to the Tohono O'odham and the Hia-Ced O'odham, with the springs' use dating back some 10,000 years. —NBC News, 11 Nov. 2020

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Word History

Etymology

O'odham tóhono ʔóʔodham, literally, desert people

First Known Use

1987, in the meaning defined above