Tohono O’odham Community College thriving as it tries to weather proposed deep cuts to tribal college funding - AZ Luminaria

Tohono O’odham Community College thriving as it tries to weather proposed deep cuts to tribal college funding - AZ Luminaria

SELLS — At the end of six months in a Casa Grande addiction treatment facility, Thurman Lynch knew he could not return to his Navajo Nation home. He understood he needed a purpose. He had no steady income and few possessions. But he was sober. And looking for a new start.  A conversation at rehab revealed a buried dream: “I want to go back to school,” he said.  As a silversmith, he made some jewelry and sold it to earn gas money. That fuel took …