Gila River Indian Community
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The Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation is a federally recognized tribe of Native Americans. The tribe controls the Gila River Indian Reservation, a reservation in the U.S
Governor Stephen Roe Lewis in 2019
House with Bow Roof, Sacaton vicinity, Pinal County, AZ. Photo from Historic American Buildings Survey, 1938
Akimel Oʼodham
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The Akimel Oʼodham or Akimel Oʼotham are an Indigenous people of the Americas living in the United States in central and southern Arizona and Northwestern Mexico in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua.
Gila River Indian Community
…and the Gila River Indian Community (GRIC) was formally established by Congress in 1939. This tribe has citizens who belong to two ethnic groups, the Akimel O’odham and Maricopa (Maricopa language: Piipaash). The O'odham language name for the community is Keli Akimel Oʼotham, meaning "Gila River People". The…
Louis Morago (Akimel Oʼodham), 1872
Akimel Oʼodham dwellings of traditional and brick construction in 1900
Kaviu, an O'odham elder, photographed around 1907 by Edward S. Curtis
Two young Akimel Oʼodham Indian school girls, c. 1900