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Reservation School Children

Leaving the chapel after Mass, these children file past us as we wait to go in. Their school is adjacent to the San Xavier Mission and part of the Tohono O'odham Indian Reservation. The school has been in operation since 1864.
San Xavier de Bac, a Treasure in the Desert

November 19th 2009
Geo: 31.9755, -111.098Only 9 miles south of Tuscon, the San Xavier mission commands the eye. This is not a blend-into-the-surroundings kind of building. It sits starkly white against the drab desert like nothing else. It's Baroque. It's Mexican Renaissance. It's Moorish. And it's Byzantine.But seeing it THERE, with no water around, makes you really scratch your head. WHY HERE? W ... read more
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