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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 Bureau of Indian Education ( BIE ), headquartered in the Main Interior Building in Washington, D.C., and formerly known as the Office of Indian Education Programs ( OIEP ), is a division of the U.S. Department of the Interior under the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs. It is responsible for the line direction and management of all BIE ...
Maricopa, Arizona. / 33.05667°N 112.04667°W / 33.05667; -112.04667. Maricopa is a city in the Gila River Valley in Pinal County, Arizona, United States. With 66,290 residents as of 2022, Maricopa is the largest incorporated municipality in Pinal County. [3]
413.55 [1] Student–teacher ratio. 19.5 [1] Other information. Website. www .musd20 .org. The Maricopa Unified School District is the main public school district in the city of Maricopa, Arizona. It operates six elementary schools, two middle schools, and two high schools as well as an online school. The district (as of 2018) is at an "A" rating.
Pima Butte (Maricopa: Vii Vav) is a mountain summit in Pinal County, Arizona eight miles north of present-day Maricopa, Arizona. Pima Butte rises to 1,660 feet (510 meters) above sea level. [1] As a significant landmark in the Gila Valley it was near the site of the 1857 Battle of Pima Butte , to which it gave its name.
Pima Villages, sometimes mistakenly called the Pimos Villages in the 19th century, were the Akimel O’odham (Pima) and Pee-Posh (Maricopa) villages in what is now the Gila River Indian Community in Pinal County, Arizona. First, recorded by Spanish explorers in the late 17th century as living on the south side of the Gila River, they were ...
Coordinates: 33.506428°N 111.831333°W. Salt River Elementary School, formerly known as Salt River Indian Day School, [1] is a tribal elementary school located on the Salt River Pima–Maricopa Indian Community reservation in unincorporated Maricopa County, Arizona. It is affiliated with the Bureau of Indian Education. [2]
The Yavapai War, was an armed conflict in the United States from 1871 to 1875 against Yavapai and Western Apache bands of Arizona. It began in the aftermath of the Camp Grant Massacre, on April 28, 1871, in which nearly 150 Pinal and Aravaipa Apaches were massacred by O'odham warriors, Mexican settlers, and American settlers.