Ak-Chin Community
The Ak-Chin Community , officially Ak-Chin Indian Community , is an Indian reservation located along the Santa Cruz River Valley in Pinal County , Arizona . The reserve was established in May 1912 by President William H. Taft with a size of 193 km². In September he reduced the reserve to 89 km². The Ak-Chin community is inhabited by about 740 people, half of Tohono O'Odham (including the Hia C-eḍ O'Odham ) and Akimel O'Odham and a few Yoeme .
For common protection against the attacks of the enemy Apaches , the various O'Odham groups joined together and formed a new group, the Ak-Chin O'Odham (also Ak-Chin Au-Authm - 'people who live at the mouth of the Arroyo (seasonally dry river valley) lives' or 'people where the water floods in the sand - or soil - seep away') Ak-Chin thus describes both the place where heavy summer rains or snowmelt, the Arroyo (seasonally dry river valley) and the adjacent ones Fields are flooded again, as well as the technique of flood farming, in which the flooding was caught in artificially created ditches, dikes and depressions.
The Ak-Chin Him Dak Eco-Museum located in the reserve is unique and is not located in a building. The artifacts in the museum are the everyday objects of the tribe members. The tribal members are also the curators of the museum.
The reservation is also home to Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino .
language
The Ak-Chin O'Odham speak a variant of the O'Odham language, the O'Odham ha-ñeʼokĭ , O'Ottham ha-neoki or O'Odham ñiok , a Pimic language (or Tepiman ) of the southern branch of the Uto - Aztec language family . Several dialects occur within this language.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arizona's Native American Tribes ( Memento from January 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ About our Community
- ^ The Ecomuseum Preserves and Teaches an Artful Way of Life
- ↑ Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino
- ↑ Saxton, Dean, Saxton, Lucille and Enos, Susie: Dictionary: Tohono O'odham / Pima to English, English to Tohono O'Odham / Pima . 145 pages, University of Arizona Press, 1998, ISBN 978-0816519422
Web links
- Ak-Chin Indian Community ( Memento from February 1, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Inter Tribal Council of Arizona: Ak-Chin Indian Community ( Memento October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
See also: List of Indian Reservations