By Gloria Gomez/UA Don Bolles Fellow/AZ Mirror PHOENIX — Odelia Jose should be enjoying her retirement surrounded by family. Instead, the 58-year-old member of the Gila River tribe is in a state of constant grief after losing two of her three children to violence — a tragically common story among indigenous people in Arizona, which…
By Paula Díaz/El Inde En el segundo piso del consulado de México en Tucson hay varios cubículos, donde se encuentran los operadores del centro de llamadas que ofrece asistencia a los mexicanos. Estos tienden a ser migrantes que están en medio del desierto perdidos, familiares buscando a uno de sus seres queridos que cruzaron la…
By Jenna Nicole Rivera/El Inde Though artists have come to express themselves in various ways, Francisco Narxogaray, a local Tucson-based artist, finds himself navigating life through his art while sharing his personal stories along the way. Jenna Nicole Rivera has the story.
By Vanessa Lucero/El Inde Before 1971, the area just south of downtown Tucson was a thriving Mexican American community. It has adobe homes and pocket parks; it was the place where Mexican Americans celebrated and preserved their culture. But then on March 1, 1966, the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project was approved, targeting 80 acres of…
By Julia Blumberg/El Inde The Migrant Quilt Project was started in 2007. Each quilt is meant to memorialize the people who lost their lives crossing the desert, the identified and the desconocidos. It now has a home at the Arizona History Museum. Julia Blumberg has this story. Music: Siddhartha Corsus, A Song for Peace https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Siddhartha/let-there-be-peace/a-song-for-peace…
