Youth from Tohono O'odham Nation sing blessing for Rep. Giffords

Friday, January 14, 2011  

A group of youth from the Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona sang a blessing for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Arizona) outside of the hospital where she is being treated after an attempted assassination.

The youth sang the blessing for Giffords and for the other victims of the January 8 shooting in Tucson. Some were dressed in "brightly coloured traditional robes," the Financial Times reported.

Giffords represents Arizona's 8th Congressional district, where Native Americans make up about 2.1 percent of the population. During the 111th Congress, she was a co-sponsor of the White Mountain Apache Tribe water rights bill and the reauthorization of the Special Diabetes Program for Indians, both of which became law last year.

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