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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.
website, history and culture of the Gila River Indian Community: Huhugam Ki Museum: Scottsdale: Maricopa: Phoenix area: Ethnic – Native American: website, history and culture of the O'odham (Pima) and Piipaash (Maricopa) I.d.e.a. Museum: Mesa: Maricopa: Phoenix area: Children's: Focus is on fine art and creativity, formerly the Arizona Museum ...
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 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.
The site is owned by the Gila River Indian Community, which has decided not to open the area to the public. There is no public access to the Hohokam Pima National Monument. [7] The museum at the nearby Casa Grande Ruins National Monument, in Coolidge, Arizona, contains artifacts from Snaketown. The Huhugam Heritage Center also has exhibits on ...
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 president's apology, on tribal land at the Gila River Indian Reservation, came in the wake of a years-long investigation commissioned by Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a member of the Pueblo ...