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The Pima Villages and some of their lands were included in the Gila River Indian Reservation in 1859. An Indian Agency was established at Casa Blanca with Silas St. John, (station agent of the Butterfield Overland Mail at Casa Blanca Station), appointed on February 18, 1859, as Special Agent for the Pima and Maricopa Indians.
The Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) (O'odham language: Keli Akimel Oʼotham, meaning "Gila River People", Maricopa language: Pee-Posh) is an Indian reservation in the U.S. state of Arizona, lying adjacent to the south side of the cities of Chandler and Phoenix, within the Phoenix Metropolitan Area in Pinal and Maricopa counties.
The Gila River Indian Reservation is home of Maricopa (Piipaa, Piipaash or Pee-Posh – "People") and Keli Akimel O'odham (also Keli Akimel Au-Authm – "Gila River People", a division of the Akimel O'odham – "River People"). The Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community is smaller in size.
STEWARDS OF THE GILA RIVER: The Gila River Indian Community will be the first in the US to construct a solar-panel-lined water canal, reports Katie Hawkinson
Stephen Roe Lewis grew up seeing stacks of legal briefs at the dinner table — often, about his tribe's water. Years later, Stephen would become governor of the tribe, whose reservation is about ...
The camp was located on the Gila River Indian Reservation, near an irrigated agricultural center. It comprised two separate camps, named 'Canal' and 'Butte'. Construction began on May 1, 1942, over the strong objections of the reservation's Pima Indian government. [7] The official opening took place less than two months later, on July 20.
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland delivers remarks at Gila Crossing Community School in Gila River Indian Community, Arizona on Oct. 25, 2024. She overcame that anxiety and set out to make history.
The reservation was created in 1882 by President Chester A. Arthur, via executive order, and originally encompassed 22,400 acres. [2]In 1960, the Army Corps of Engineers completed construction of the Painted Rock Dam on the Gila River.