In this Oct. 4 photo, Veronica Sam, member of the Tohono O’odham nation in Arizona, rests to eat next to a statuette of Saint Francis Javier on his feast day in Magdalena de Kino, Sonora state, Mexico. San Francisco Javier was the favorite saint of Jesuit missionary Eusebio Francisco Kino, who in the 1600s evangelized in northeastern Mexico, an area that now includes Arizona state. (AP Photo/Matthew Corbisiero) For 75 miles, a swath of the Sonoran Desert in Arizona — specked with mountains and tall saguaro trees — straddles the border with Mexico. It is the Tohono O’odham Nation, a Native American reservation the size of Connecticut that for thousands of years extended south into...
