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The reservation was first established in 1868 within New Mexico Territory, initially spanning roughly 3,300,000 acres (13,000 km 2); it subsequently straddled what became the Arizona–New Mexico border in 1912, when the states were admitted to the union. Unlike many reservations in the U.S., it has since expanded several times since its ...
There is a tribal school, Pine Hill Schools, operated by the Ramah Navajo School Board and associated with the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE). Additionally the Gallup-McKinley County Schools is the local school district; the proximity of the nearest schools in Cibola County were so far, 50 miles (80 km) away, that Cibola and McKinley counties agreed to have students sent to McKinley County ...
Fort Sill Apache Reservation: Apache — 650 30 Luna: Tribal jurisdiction area in Oklahoma but won rights to reservation in New Mexico in 2011. Members are from the Chiricahua. Pueblo of Isleta: Tiwa: Shiewhibak 3,400 301,102 Bernalillo: Jemez Pueblo: Jemez: Walatowa 1,815 89,619 Sandoval: Jicarilla Apache Nation: Apache: Dinde 3,254 879,917 ...
Old Fort Ruin is an archaeological site located in Rio Arriba County, northwestern New Mexico, United States, on lands owned by the State of New Mexico. The site consists of the ruins of a Navajo pueblito and associated hogans and artifacts. The site is included on the National Register of Historic Places in New Mexico.
Thoreau (Navajo: Dlǫ́ʼí Yázhí) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in McKinley County, New Mexico, United States. [4] The population was 2,367 at the 2020 census, [3] up from 1,865 in 2010. [5] It is majority Native American, primarily of the Navajo Nation, as Thoreau is located within its boundaries.
The To'Hajiilee Navajo Chapter [1] (Navajo: Tó Hajiileehé, pronounced [txʷó hɑ̀t͡ʃɪ̀ːlèːj˔é]), also spelled To'hajiilee, formerly known as the Cañoncito Band of Navajo Indians [2] is a non-contiguous section of the Navajo Nation lying in parts of western Bernalillo, eastern Cibola, and southwestern Sandoval counties in the U.S ...
The population of the pueblo is composed of Native Americans who speak Keres, an eastern dialect of the Keresan languages.Like several other Pueblo peoples, they have a matrilineal kinship system, [7] in which children are considered born into the mother's family and clan, and inheritance and property pass through the maternal line.
Rock Springs is in western McKinley County, 9 miles (14 km) by road northwest of Gallup, the county seat.It is bordered to the east by the Yah-ta-hey CDP. New Mexico State Road 264 crosses the northern part of Rock Springs, leading east to U.S. Route 491 at Yah-ta-hey and west 14 miles (23 km) to Window Rock, Arizona, capital of the Navajo Nation.