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Tiburón Island is part of the traditional homeland of some bands (or clans) of the Seri people, for many centuries if not millennia. [5] Author Charles Marion Tyler described the island in his 1885 book The Island World of the Pacific Ocean, saying that "little is known [of the island], a hostile tribe of Indians being in possession."
The Seri territory in the state of Sonora spans an area of approximately 211,000 hectares (520,000 acres) of land and is located on both continental land as well as land from Tiburon island, which is located in the Gulf of California off the central coast of the state.
The Tiburón Island Tragedy, also known as the Grindell expedition, occurred in 1905 when three members of a small American gold prospecting expedition, led by Thomas F. Grindell, went missing in the Sonoran Desert near Tiburón Island (lit.
In 1922, Yates Holmes, an American, secured a federal concession for almost 6,000 acres (24 km 2) of land in Bahía de Kino and developed a hunting and fishing camp that became known as the Kino Bay Club. It operated through 1931(Bowen 2000).
The Tiburón Island mule deer is also called the "Tiburon Island mule deer" in most English speaking countries, for the acute accent is not needed.[2] [3] It is still undecided if the Tiburón Island mule deer is a valid subspecies or not, for it may be a synonym of either the burro mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus eremicus), or the peninsular mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus peninsulae).
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The Seri who once inhabited San Esteban Island referred to themselves as Coftécöl Comcáac, "People of the Giant Chuckwalla" and named the island for this species. [ 9 ] The San Esteban chuckwalla is an endangered species due to hunting from the Seri and the introduction of feral animals such as rats and mice which prey upon the chuckwalla's ...