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Kyrene School District is a K-8 school district that serves parts of Tempe, Chandler, Guadalupe, and Phoenix, Arizona, as well as portions of the Gila River Indian Community within Maricopa County. Kyrene School District operates a total of 26 schools, consisting of nineteen elementary schools, six middle schools and one online school.
The Akimel Oʼodham (known as the Pima to anthropologists) are a subgroup of the Upper O'odham or Upper Pima (also known as Pima Alto), whose lands were known in Spanish as Pimería Alta. The Akimel O'odham lived along the Gila, Salt, Yaqui, and Sonora rivers in ranchería -style villages. The villages were set up as a loose group of houses ...
Gila River. The Gila River (/ ˈhiːlə /; O'odham [Pima]: Keli Akimel or simply Akimel, Quechan: Haa Siʼil, Maricopa language: Xiil[ 4 ]) is a 649-mile-long (1,044 km) [ 2 ] tributary of the Colorado River flowing through New Mexico and Arizona in the United States. The river drains an arid watershed of nearly 60,000 square miles (160,000 km ...
Combat Action Ribbon. Ira Hamilton Hayes (January 12, 1923 – January 24, 1955) was an Akimel O'odham Indigenous American and a United States Marine during World War II. Hayes was an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community, located in Pinal and Maricopa counties in Arizona. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve on ...
Natalie Diaz (born September 4, 1978) [2] is a Pulitzer Prize -winning [3] Mojave American poet, [4] language activist, former professional basketball player, and educator. She is enrolled in the Gila River Indian Community and identifies as Akimel O'odham. [4] She is currently an Associate Professor at Arizona State University.
The Gila River Indian Community was established in 1859, and the Gila River Indian Community was formally established by Congress in 1939. The community is home for members of both the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and the Pee-Posh (Maricopa) tribes. The reservation has a land area of 583.749 square miles (1,511.90 km 2) and a 2020 Census population ...
The mission was founded in 1692 by Padre Eusebio Kino [1] in the center of a centuries-old settlement of the Sobaipuri O'odham, a branch of the Akimel or River O'odham located along the banks of the Santa Cruz River. The mission was named for Francis Xavier, a Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order) in Europe ...
The two O'odham peoples were split between the Akimel (river people) and Tohono (desert people). [24] The Akimel O'odham were the major Indian group in the area, and lived in small villages, with well-defined irrigation systems, which spread over the entire Gila River Valley, from Florence in the east to the Estrellas in the west.