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  2. San Xavier Indian Reservation - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Mission San Xavier del Bac - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Tohono Oʼodham Nation - Wikipedia

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    Of the four lands bases, the largest is the main reservation at more than 2.7 million acres (10,925 km 2). The San Xavier reservation is the second-largest, at 71,095 acres (287.71 km 2), just south of Tucson. The Gila Bend Indian Reservation is 473 acres (1.91 km 2) and Florence Village 25 acres (0.10 km 2).

  5. Tohono Oʼodham - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Oʼodham - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. List of the oldest buildings in Arizona - Wikipedia

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    Mission San Xavier del Bac: San Xavier Indian Reservation near Tucson, Arizona: 1783-1797 Church Rebuilt in 1783 near site of an earlier razed church built in 1692 [5] Likely the oldest Spanish colonial/European built structure in Arizona. Cordova House: Tucson, Arizona: ca. 1848 Residence Oldest house in Tucson; now part of Tucson Museum of ...

  8. Pima villages - Wikipedia

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    These were the Mission San Cayetano del Tumacácori, Los Santos Ángeles de Guevavi, San Xavier del Bac, all south of the Pima Villages. The villages of the Akimel O’odham were located along the Gila River before the Spanish explorers Father Kino and Captain Manje, the leader of Kino's military escort, first encountered them in 1694.

  9. Indigenous peoples of Arizona - Wikipedia

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    The establishment of reservations, beginning with the Gila River Indian Community in 1859, sometimes involved the resettlement of indigenous groups away from their traditional land. [20] The second half of the 19th century also saw the establishment of the American Indian boarding school system, including the Phoenix Indian School , founded in ...