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The Ak-Chin Indian Community is located in the Santa Cruz Valley in Arizona. The community is composed mainly of Ak-Chin O'odham (Ak-Chin Au-Authm, also called Pima, another division of the Akimel O'odham – "River People") and Tohono O'odham, as well as some Yoeme. As of 2000, the population living in the community was 742.
The Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community supports the preservation of the Akimel O’odham and Xalchidom Piipaash languages through teaching and learning for everyone within the Community. It encourages all community members to preserve the Akimel O’odham and Xalchidom Piipaash languages within their homes (Council Resolution SR-2026 ...
Ak-Chin Oʼodham (Ak-Chin Au-Authm), [7] Ak-Chin Indian Community; Sobaipuri, (also simply called Sobas, called by the neighboring Akimel Oʼodham as Ṣáṣavino – "spotted"), originally lived in the valleys of the San Pedro River and Upper Santa Cruz River. In the early 18th century, they were gradually driven out of the lower San Pedro ...
The Pima also refer to I'itoi as Se:he "Elder Brother", also See-a-huh. [1] The term I'ithi is a dialectal variant used by the Hia C-eḍ O'odham.. He is most often depicted as the Man in the Maze, a design appearing on O'odham basketry and petroglyphs.
A further 132 Akimel O’odham were in the village of Oyadaibuc to the west near what is now Gila Bend. A later map by Kino showed three villages of "mixed Pimas and Opas," lay above Oyadaibuc on the Gila and two more villages of Pimas above them before Comacson was reached. The Spanish counted 530 Pimas living in the villages from Oyadaibuc to ...
Tohono Oʼodham, Akimel O'odham, Pima Bajo, Tepehuán The Hia C-eḍ Oʼodham ("Sand Dune People"), also known as Areneños or Sand Papagos , [ 2 ] are a Native American peoples whose traditional homeland lies between the Ajo Range , the Gila River , the Colorado River , and the Gulf of California . [ 3 ]
The Tohono Oʼodham share linguistic and cultural roots with the closely related Akimel Oʼodham (People of the River), historically known as Pima, whose lands lie just south of present-day Phoenix, along the lower Gila River. The ancestors of both the Tohono Oʼodham and the Akimel Oʼodham resided along the major rivers of southern Arizona.
Oʼodham (pronounced [ˈʔɔʔɔðam], English approximation: / ˈ oʊ. ɒ ð ə m,-d ə m / OH-od(h)-əm) or Papago-Pima is a Uto-Aztecan language of southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico, where the Tohono Oʼodham (formerly called the Papago) and Akimel Oʼodham (traditionally called Pima) reside. [5]