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The Akimel Oʼodham (known as the Pima to anthropologists) are a subgroup of the Upper O'odham or Upper Pima (also known as Pima Alto ), whose lands were known in Spanish as Pimería Alta . The Akimel O'odham lived along the Gila, Salt, Yaqui, and Sonora rivers in ranchería -style villages. The villages were set up as a loose group of houses ...
The Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community ( SRPMIC) comprises two distinct Native American tribes—the Pima ( O'odham language: Onk Akimel O'odham, meaning "Salt River People") and the Maricopa ( Maricopa language: Xalychidom Piipaash, meaning "people who live toward the water")—many of whom were originally part of the Halchidhoma ...
The Gila River Indian Community was established in 1859, and the Gila River Indian Community was formally established by Congress in 1939. The community is home for members of both the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and the Pee-Posh (Maricopa) tribes. The reservation has a land area of 583.749 square miles (1,511.90 km 2) and a 2020 Census population ...
The main reservation, Tohono Oʼodham Indian Reservation, which lies in central Pima, southwestern Pinal, and southeastern Maricopa counties, and has a land area of 11,243.098 square kilometres (4,340.984 sq mi) and a 2000 census population of 8,376 persons. The land area is 97.48 percent of the reservation's total, and the population is 77.65 ...
Pima County Fair, 2007. Pima County ( / ˈpiːmə / PEE-mə) is a county in the south central region of the U.S. state of Arizona. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,043,433, [1] making it Arizona's second-most populous county. The county seat is Tucson, [2] where most of the population is centered. The county is named after the Pima ...
Pima Community College ( PCC) is a public community college in Pima County, Arizona. It serves the Tucson metropolitan area with a community college district consisting of five campuses, four education centers, and several adult education learning centers. It provides traditional and online instruction for over 144 programs. [2]
Maricopa. The Maricopa or Piipaash [2] are a Native American tribe, who live in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and Gila River Indian Community along with the Pima, a tribe with whom the Maricopa have long held a positive relationship. The Maricopa at the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community consist mostly of Xalychidom ...
Akimel O'odham, Tohono Oʼodham, Tepehuán. The Pima Bajo ( Lower Pima) people are indigenous people of Mexico who reside in a mountainous region along the line between the states of Chihuahua and Sonora in northern Mexico. They are related to the Pima and Tohono O’odham of Arizona and northern Sonora, speaking a similar but distinct language.