I recenty spent a Saturday afternoon at the 74th Tohono O'odham Nation's Rodeo and Fair, this nation's biggest annual event and Arizona's longest running All-Indian Rodeo. The Junior Wild Horse Stampede and Junior Rodeos offer a younger level of competition that fosters the cowboy lifestyle which ushers in the difference between the Tucson Rodeo and the Sells Rodeo, it's all Indian, most competitors are from Arizona tribes from all over Arizona, so some events might not fill, this year there...
more »I recenty spent a Saturday afternoon at the 74th Tohono O'odham Nation's Rodeo and Fair, this nation's biggest annual event and Arizona's longest running All-Indian Rodeo. The Junior Wild Horse Stampede and Junior Rodeos offer a younger level of competition that fosters the cowboy lifestyle which ushers in the difference between the Tucson Rodeo and the Sells Rodeo, it's all Indian, most competitors are from Arizona tribes from all over Arizona, so some events might not fill, this year there were three bareback entries and one saddle bronc and rodeo slack is filled with team roping which is the big pastime here on the Tohono Reservation, the second largest reservation in the U.S. which straddles the U.S.-Mexico Border.
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