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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 ...
Mission San Xavier del Bac (Spanish: La Misión de San Xavier del Bac) is a historic Spanish Catholic mission located about 10 miles (16 km) south of downtown Tucson, Arizona, on the Tohono O'odham Nation San Xavier Indian Reservation.
The Tohono Oʼodham Nation [2] is the collective government body of the Tohono Oʼodham tribe in the United States. [2] The Tohono Oʼodham Nation governs four separate sections of land with a combined area of 2.8 million acres (11,330 km 2), approximately the size of Connecticut and the second-largest Indigenous land holding in the United States.
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]
Fort Mojave Indian Reservation: Mohave: Pipa Aha Macav 1890 1,004 65.4 (169.4) Mohave: Extends into California (San Bernardino) and Nevada Fort Yuma Indian Reservation: Quechan: Kwatsáan 1884 2,197 68.1 (176.4) Yuma: Extends into California Gila River Indian Community: Pima, Maricopa: O'odham/Pima: Keli Akimel Oʼotham Maricopa: 1859 11,712
The land area is 97.48 percent of the reservation's total, and the population is 77.65 percent of the total of the entire reservation lands. The San Xavier Reservation, at , is located in Pima County, in the southwestern part of the Tucson metropolitan area. It has a land area of 288.895 square kilometres (111.543 sq mi) and a resident ...
There are approximately 326 federally recognized Indian Reservations in the United States. [1] Most of the tribal land base in the United States was set aside by the federal government as Native American Reservations. In California, about half of its reservations are called rancherías. In New Mexico, most reservations are called Pueblos.
Authorizing the establishment of four Indian reservations within the limits of the state. Statute limited the number of reservations in California to a total of 4. Recognized under this act were Round Valley, Hoopa Valley, Smith River, and Tule River Hupa (S. Fork, Redwood, and Grouse Creek bands) 8-21-1864 Ca-2 461 832 Stat. L., XIII, 39.