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The Tohono Oʼodham Indian Reservation, is an Indian reservation of the

Tohono Oʼodham Nation The Tohono Oʼodham Nation is the collective government body of the Tohono Oʼodham tribe in the United States. The Tohono Oʼodham Nation governs four separate pieces of land with a combined area of , approximately the size of Connecticut and th ...

located in

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, United States. The reservation had a total 2000 census population of 10,787. The reservation has a land area of , 97.48 percent of the Tohono Oʼodham 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 Baboquivari may refer to: * 2059 Baboquivari, a near-Earth asteroid * Baboquivari Peak Wilderness, a protected area in the U.S. state of Arizona * Baboquivari National Forest Baboquivari National Forest was established as the Baboquivari Forest Re ...

, which include Kitt Peak, and the

Kitt Peak National Observatory The Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO) is a United States astronomical observatory located on Kitt Peak of the Quinlan Mountains in the Arizona-Sonoran Desert on the Tohono Oʼodham Nation, west-southwest of Tucson, Arizona. With more than ...

and telescopes, as well as

Baboquivari Peak The Baboquivari Peak Wilderness or La Bestia is a wilderness area in the U.S. state of Arizona. It is located in the Baboquivari Mountains southwest of Tucson, Arizona. It is administered by the Bureau of Land Management. The United States Cong ...

. These astronomical sites are under lease from the Tohono Oʼodham Nation. The lease was approved by the council in the 1950s, for a one-time payment of

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25,000 plus $10 per acre per year. Reprinting material from the ''Arizona Daily Star'', 2005. 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. 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 Oʼodham Nation communities

* Ak Chin *

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* Chuichu * Pisinemo *

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( Kaij Mek) * Sells *Sweetwater, Clement L. Garner, ''Triangulation in Arizona''
p. 141
Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1941. * Topawa * Kaka * Kohatk * Tat Momoli * Gu Vo * Hickiwan *

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Communications

The telephone area code for the Tohono Oʼodham Reservation is 520.

References

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