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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.
This map shows the incorporated areas−cities and unincorporated areas in Pinal County, Arizona. Highlighting the Gila River Indian Community reservation in red. Other incorporated cities are shown in gray, planning area borders for these cities and Indian reservation borders are shown as solid black lines. Credits
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.
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
The villages of the Akimel O’odham were located along the Gila River before the Spanish explorers Father Kino and Captain Manje, the leader of Kino's military escort, first encountered them in 1694. A census taken by Manje in 1697 and 1699 found 1118 people in 5 villages along the Gila, within the boundary of the modern Gila River Indian ...
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.
Sacaton or Socatoon was a village of the Maricopa people, established above the Pima Villages, (now the Gila River Indian Community) after the June 1, 1857, in the Battle of Pima Butte where it appears a few months later in the 1857 Chapman Census. Sacaton village lay on the Gila River, 3.75 miles west of modern Sacaton.
It primarily serves as the major road to Maricopa; much of the road lies within the Gila River Indian Community, with another short stretch through the Ak-Chin Indian Community. The road was built in the late 1930s and established as a state highway in the 1990s. Most of it is also known as the John Wayne Parkway. On average, between 4,000 and ...