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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.
Official Tribal Name People(s) Total Pop. (2010) [2] In-State Pop. (2010) [2] Tribal Headquarters [2] County Jurisdiction [2]; Absentee Shawnee Tribe of Indians: Shawnee
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 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. Agent St. John ...
The Gila River Indian Community will partner with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to cover one of the tribe’s canals with solar panels following a landmark agreement cemented earlier this month.
Ak-Chin Indian Community: Hia C-eḍ Oʼodham, Pima, Maricopa, Tohono Oʼodham: ʼAkĭ Ciñ O'odham 1912 1,001 34.1 (88.3) Pinal: Cocopah Indian Reservation: Cocopah: Xawitt Kwñchawaay 1917 817 9.4 (24.3) Yuma: Colorado River Indian Reservation: Mohave, Chemehuevi, Hopi, Navajo: Mojave: Aha Havasuu Navajo: Tó Ntsʼósíkooh 1865 7,077 419.7 ...
Sweetwater, is a populated place located along the south side of the Gila River, between Sacaton and Casa Blanca, in what is now the Gila River Indian Community in Pinal County, Arizona, United States at an elevation of 1,211 feet (369 m). [1] Not to be confused with a populated place of the same name in the Navajo Nation within Apache County ...
Today, many Oʼodham live in the Tohono Oʼodham Nation, the San Xavier Indian Reservation, the Gila River Indian Community, the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, the Ak-Chin Indian Community or off-reservation in one of the cities or towns of Arizona. They have also historically been referred to as Hímeris. [3]