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The San Xavier Indian Reservation (O’odham: Wa:k) is an Indian reservation of the Tohono O’odham Nation located near Tucson, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert. The San Xavier Reservation lies in the southwestern part of the Tucson metropolitan area and consists of 111.543 sq mi (288.90 km 2 ) of land area, about 2.5 percent of the Tohono O ...
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 ...
The establishment of reservations, beginning with the Gila River Indian Community in 1859, sometimes involved the resettlement of indigenous groups away from their traditional land. [20] The second half of the 19th century also saw the establishment of the American Indian boarding school system, including the Phoenix Indian School , founded in ...
Flag of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona [1]. The Pascua Yaqui Tribe of Arizona [1] is a federally recognized tribe of Yaqui Native Americans in the state of Arizona.. Descended from the Yaqui people whose original homelands include the Yaqui River valley in western Sonora, Mexico [2] and southern Arizona, the Pascua Yaqui Tribe sought refuge from the Mexican government en masse prior to the ...
The Tohono Oʼodham Indian Reservation, is an Indian reservation of the Tohono Oʼodham Nation in Arizona, United States. [1] The reservation had a 2020 census population of 9,561. It has an area of 4,340.984 square miles (11,243.098 km 2 ), 97.48 percent of the Tohono Oʼodham Nation's total area.
An 1870 map of Arizona shows an "Indian Village" just north of Sahuarita. [6] The earliest known reference to the town can be found on a German map from 1875, which labels the town "Sahuarito". [ 7 ] The first known US map to list the town came in 1879, by the US Department of Interior, calling the town "Saurita". [ 8 ]
The reservation measures about 300 km (190 miles) east to west and 250 km (160 miles) north to south. [4] The seat of government is located in Window Rock, Arizona. The remoteness of much of the reservation and the Navajo need for goods produced by Hispanic and Anglo settlers led to the establishment of trading posts on their lands.
Drexel Heights is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Pima County, Arizona, United States.The population was 27,749 at the 2010 census.. The area is said to be named after financier Francis Anthony Drexel, the father of Saint Katharine Drexel (who established missions to Blacks and Native Americans throughout the United States).