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Gila River Indian Community
The Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) ( O'odham language: Keli Akimel Oʼotham, meaning "Gila River People", Maricopa language: Piipash) is an Indian reservation in the U.S. state of Arizona, lying adjacent to the south side of the cities of Chandler and Phoenix, within the Phoenix Metropolitan Area in Pinal and Maricopa counties. 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 Piipaash (Maricopa) tribes. The reservation has a land area of and a 2020 Census population of 14,260. It is made up of seven districts along the Gila River and its largest communities are Sacaton, Komatke, Santan, and Blackwater. Tribal administrative offices and departments are located in Sacaton. The Community operates its own telecom company, electric utility, industrial park and healthcare clinic, and publishes a monthly ...
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Indian Reservation
An American Indian reservation is an area of land land tenure, held and governed by a List of federally recognized tribes in the contiguous United States#Description, U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is Tribal sovereignty in the United States, autonomous, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the state governments of the United States, U.S. state government in which it is located. Some of the country's 574 List of Native American Tribal Entities, federally recognized tribes govern more than one of the 326 List of Indian reservations in the United States, Indian reservations in the United States, while some share reservations, and others have no reservation at all. Historical piecemeal land allocations under the Dawes Act facilitated sales to non–Native Americans, resulting in some reservations becoming severely fragmented, with pie ...
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Santan, Arizona
Santan is an unincorporated community, and former census-designated place (CDP), in Pinal County, Arizona, United States. The settlement was named "Santa Ana" by its Akimel O'odham inhabitants in 1857, and pronounced "Santana". Geography According to the United States Census Bureau, the former CDP had a total area of , all land. Demographics As of the census of 2000, there were 651 people, 163 households, and 135 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 185 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 2% White, 93% Native American, 3% from other races, and 2% from two or more races. 13% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 163 households, out of which 51% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 33% were married couples living together, 36% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17% were non-families. 16% of all households were made up of individuals, and 6% ...
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Maricopa Colony, Arizona
Maricopa Colony is a census-designated place (CDP) in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, located in the federally recognized Gila River Indian Community. The population was 854 at the 2020 census, up from 709 at the 2010 census. It is located on the southern side of the Phoenix metropolitan area, around Baseline Road and 83rd Avenue. Demographics As of the census of 2010, there were 709 people living in the CDP. The racial makeup of the CDP was 1% White, 92% Native American, 4% from other races, and 3% from two or more races. 14% of the population were Hispanic The term Hispanic () are people, Spanish culture, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or broadly. In some contexts, Hispanic and Latino Americans, especially within the United States, "Hispanic" is used as an Ethnici ... or Latino of any race. Transportation Gila River Transit connects Maricopa Colony with Komatke. Notes {{authority control Arizona placenames of Nati ...
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Goodyear Village, Arizona
Goodyear Village ( O'odham: Valin Dak) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pinal County, Arizona, United States, located in the Gila River Indian Community. The population was 457 at the 2010 census. Demographics As of the census of 2010, there were 457 people living in the CDP. The population density was 136.1 people per square mile. The racial makeup of the CDP was 6% White, 1% Black or African American, 91% Native American, 2% from other races, and 2% from two or more races. 26% of the population were Hispanic The term Hispanic () are people, Spanish culture, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or broadly. In some contexts, Hispanic and Latino Americans, especially within the United States, "Hispanic" is used as an Ethnici ... or Latino of any race. Notes {{authority control Census-designated places in Pinal County, Arizona Census-designated places in Arizona Gila River Indian Community ...
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Gila Crossing, Arizona
Gila Crossing ( O'odham: Kuiwa) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States, within the Gila River Indian Community south of Komatke. The population was 636 at the 2020 census. Geography The community is on the southern side of the Phoenix metropolitan area, in the valley of the Gila River. It is bordered to the north by Komatke and St. Johns, while the community of Santa Cruz is to the south, across the Gila River in Pinal County. Downtown Phoenix is to the northeast. Demographics As of the census of 2010, there were 621 people living in the CDP. The population density was 714.5 people per square mile. The racial makeup of the CDP was 84% Native American, 3% White, 1% Black or African American, 1% from other races, and 11% from two or more races. 15% of the population were Hispanic The term Hispanic () are people, Spanish culture, cultures, or countries related to Spain, the Spanish language, or broadly. In some contexts, H ...
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Co-op Village, Arizona
Co-op Village is a populated place situated in Maricopa County, Arizona, United States. It is located in the Gila River Indian Community The Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) ( O'odham language: Keli Akimel Oʼotham, meaning "Gila River People", Maricopa language: Piipash) is an Indian reservation in the U.S. state of Arizona, lying adjacent to the south side of the cities of .... It has an estimated elevation of above sea level. References {{Maricopa County, Arizona Populated places in Maricopa County, Arizona Gila River Indian Community ...
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Casa Blanca, Arizona
Casa Blanca is a census-designated place (CDP) in Pinal County, Arizona, United States, located in the Gila River Indian Community. The population was 1,388 at the 2010 census. History Antebellum Years Casa Blanca, formerly known to the Mexicans as La Tierra Amontonada (The Land Piled Up), named for the Hohokam ruin mound nearby, was one of the Pima Villages on the Gila River in what was then part of the state of Sonora, Mexico. It was encountered by the American expedition of Stephen W. Kearny in 1846 and later by Americans on their way to California on the Southern Emigrant Trail during the California Gold Rush. Following the Gadsden Purchase the Pima Villages became part of New Mexico Territory. In 1857, the San Antonio-San Diego Mail Line passed through the village on the way between Maricopa Wells and Tucson. In 1858 when Lieutenant A. B. Chapman, of the 1st Dragoons, took the first census of the Pimas and Maricopas, he found a Pima population of 535; 110 warr ...
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Bapchule, Arizona
Bapchule ( O'odham language: Pi:pchul) is an unincorporated community in Pinal and Maricopa counties, Arizona, United States. Although Bapchule is unincorporated, it has a post office (P.O. Boxes only) with the ZIP code of 85121. It lies in the Gila River Indian Community, south of the Phoenix Metropolitan Area. Most of Bapchule is located in Pinal County, while a portion of it in the north is in Maricopa County. The Bapchule locality is geographically situated at a southern coordinate to the Gila River Valley. History The Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail encompasses the Maricopa and Pinal counties within the central southern geography of Arizona. Bapchule is the location of the 1955 death of Ira Hayes, renowned for his heroism at the Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II. He was one of the Marines in the famous picture '' Raising the American Flag on Mount Suribachi.'' Bapchule's population was estimated as 100 in the 1960 United States census. Climate T ...
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Ira Hayes
Ira Hamilton Hayes (January 12, 1923 – January 24, 1955) was an Akimel O'odham American and a United States Marine during World War II. Hayes was an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Community, located in Pinal County, Pinal and Maricopa County, Maricopa counties in Arizona. He enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Reserve on August 26, 1942, and, after recruit training, volunteered to become a Paramarine. He fought in the Bougainville Campaign, Bougainville and Battle of Iwo Jima, Iwo Jima Military campaign, campaigns in the Pacific War. Hayes was one of the six men who appeared in the iconic photograph ''Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima'' by photographer Joe Rosenthal. The first flag raised over Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945 at the south end of Iwo Jima, was deemed too small and was replaced the same day by a larger flag. A photo of the second flag-raising, which included Hayes in it, became famous and was widely reproduced. After the battle, Hayes and two o ...
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The Arizona Republic
''The Arizona Republic'' is an American daily newspaper published in Phoenix. Circulated throughout Arizona, it is the state's largest newspaper. Since 2000, it has been owned by the Gannett newspaper chain. History Early years The newspaper was founded May 19, 1890, under the name ''The Arizona Republican'', by Lewis Wolfley, Clark Churchill, John A. Black, Robert H. Paul, Royal A. Johnson, and Dr. L. C. Toney. Six years later, they would sell the paper to “an experienced newspaperman” from Washington, DC, Charles C. Randolph. On April 28, 1909, the newspaper notified its readers that local businessmen S. W. Higley and Sims Ely purchased the newspaper from George W. Vickers, and would run the paper as president and general manager, respectively. They co-owned the newspaper until December 1911, Higley purchased Ely’s interest in the paper. S. W. Higley would hold sole ownership of the Arizona Republican, serving as president and manager until its sale to Dwight B ...
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At-large
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