The history of encounters between Catholicism and Native spirituality has often been marred by violence and oppression.

The saguaro cactus is the iconic plant of the Arizona borderlands, and in June and early July, its fruit ripens.

“Fire is always where people are,” Flannigan continues. “It goes with us wherever we go. But the genie is out of the bottle.

A new book traces the environmental collapse of a crucial ecosystem and how its return could fight climate change.