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Ancestral Puebloans spanned Northern Arizona and New Mexico, Southern Colorado and Utah, and a part of Southeastern Nevada. They primarily lived north of the Patayan, Sinagua, Hohokam, Trincheras, Mogollon, and Casas Grandes cultures of the Southwest [1] and south of the Fremont culture of the Great Basin.
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 1891. Intended to forcibly assimilate Arizona Native children into American culture , school policies prohibited the use of native languages and clothing and separated children from the ...
American Charter Schools Foundation [56] (Alta Vista, Apache Trail, Crestview Prep, Desert Hills, Estrella, Peoria Accelerated, Ridgeview Prep, South Pointe, South Ridge, Sun Valley, West Phoenix) Arizona Agribusiness and Equine Center; Arizona Language Preparatory [57] Arizona School for the Arts; ASU Preparatory Academy, Phoenix High School
Middle schools: Craver Middle School (Colorado City) Pleasant View Middle School; Liberty Point International School (formerly Pueblo West Middle School) (Pueblo West) Skyview Middle School (Pueblo West) Vineland Middle School (Vineland) Elementary schools: Avondale Elementary School; Cedar Ridge Elementary School; Desert Sage Elementary School
Northern Yuma County Union High School, Parker/Salome (circa mid-1950s; split into two schools) North Pointe Preparatory, Phoenix (2023) Palo Verde Christian High School, Tucson (2000; acquired and renamed Pusch Ridge Christian Academy) Phoenix Indian School, Phoenix (1990) Phoenix Technical School, Phoenix (1955; folded back into Phoenix Union)
Fort Mojave was converted into a boarding school for local children and other "non-reservation" Indians. Until 1931, forty-one years later, all Fort Mojave boys and girls between the ages of six and eighteen were compelled to live at this school or to attend an advanced Indian boarding school far removed from Fort Mojave.
The Algodones Dunes. The Colorado Desert is a subregion of the larger Sonoran Desert, [1] covering about 7 million acres (2.8 million ha; 28,000 km 2). [2] The desert occupies Imperial County, parts of San Diego and Riverside counties, and a small part of San Bernardino County in California, United States, [3] as well as the northern part of Mexicali Municipality in Baja California, Mexico.
The transition zone is dominated by the Mogollon Plateau at the southern edge of the Coconino Plateau of the Flagstaff region and the San Francisco volcanic field; the Mogollon Rim borders the plateau which extends from Oak Creek Canyon on the west, to the east at the highest elevations of Arizona in the central and western White Mountains.