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Indian reservation in Arizona
32°09′01″N
112°02′41″W
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32.15028°N 112.04472°W
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32.15028; -112.04472
Tohono O?odham flag.
Map shows the location of the majority of the Tohono O?odham Nation in
Pima County
, highlighting the large Tohono O?odham Reservation as well as the smaller
San Xavier Reservation
in red. The non-contiguous segments in
Maricopa
and
Pinal
counties are not shown.
The
Tohono O?odham Indian Reservation
, is an
Indian reservation
of the
Tohono O?odham Nation
located in
Arizona
, United States.
[1]
The reservation had a total
2000 census
population of 10,787. The reservation has a land area of 4,340.984 square miles (11,243.098 km
2
), 97.48 percent of the Tohono O?odham Nation total area. The reservation encompasses portions of central
Pima
, southwestern
Pinal
, and southeastern
Maricopa Counties
.
The land is also site of the Quinlan and
Baboquivari Mountains
, which include Kitt Peak, and the
Kitt Peak National Observatory
and telescopes, as well as
Baboquivari Peak
. These astronomical sites are under lease from the Tohono O?odham Nation. The lease was approved by the council in the 1950s, for a one-time payment of
US$
25,000 plus $10 per acre per year.
[2]
When the Spaniards first encountered the tribe in 1694, they made note of one of the tribe's inhabited villages called
Batki
, a site that was later abandoned in about 1850.
[3]
The village of
Batki
was located in what is now the Sells District of the Tohono O'odham Nation, in the upper Northwest corner of the reservation.
Tohono O?odham Nation communities
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Communications
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The telephone
area code
for the Tohono O?odham Reservation is 520.
References
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]
- ^
"Home"
.
Official Website of the Tohono O?odham Nation
. 2014
. Retrieved
2014-04-24
.
- ^
"Astronomy Development on Another Sacred Mountain: Kitt Peak"
.
Mauna Kea ? From Mountain to Sea
. Na Maka o ka Aina. 2005. Archived from
the original
on 2008-08-20.
Reprinting material from the
Arizona Daily Star
, 2005.
- ^
Fontana, Bernard L.; Robinson, William J.; Cormack, Charles W.; Leavitt, Earnest E. (1962).
Papago Indian Pottery
. Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, on behalf of the American Ethnological Society. pp. 17, 34.
OCLC
869680
.
- ^
Clement L. Garner,
Triangulation in Arizona
,
p. 141
, Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1941.
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