Cibecue ( apw, Dishchiiʼ Bikoh "Horizontally Red Valley/Canyon") is a

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(CDP) in Navajo County,

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, United States, on the

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. The population was 1,713 in the 2010 United States Census. The current council leaders are Arnold Beach Sr. and Tony Alsenay. The Cibecue community has a high unemployment rate, which was exacerbated by the

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, Arizona's second-largest

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. Education is the sector that employs the most people in the community.

Geography

Cibecue is located at (34.039644, -110.485435). According to the

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, the CDP has a total area of , all land.

Climate

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 1,331 people, 323 households, and 268 families residing in the CDP. The population density was . There were 344 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the CDP was 96.0% Native American, 2.6%

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, 0.1%

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, 0.2% Asian, 0.2% from other races, and 0.9% from two or more races. 2.0% of the population were

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or Latino of any race. There were 323 households, out of which 54.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 41.8% were

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living together, 34.1% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.0% were non-families. 13.6% of all households were made up of individuals, and 2.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 4.11 and the average family size was 4.45. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 45.2% under the age of 18, 10.6% from 18 to 24, 25.9% from 25 to 44, 13.7% from 45 to 64, and 4.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 21 years. For every 100 females, there were 96.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 93.1 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $12,286, and the median income for a family was $13,750. Males had a median income of $52,639 versus $21,591 for females. The

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for the CDP was $5,941. About 55.7% of families and 68.7% of the population were below the

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, including 72.5% of those under age 18 and 70.9% of those age 65 or over. In 2010, Cibecue had the 18th-lowest median household income of all places in the United States with a population over 1,000.

Transportation

Cibecue Airport is a public use

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airport located four

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s (7 km) southeast of the

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of Cibecue.. Federal Aviation Administration. Effective November 15, 2012. The White Mountain Apache Tribe operates the Fort Apache Connection Transit, which provides local bus service.

Education

The area is served by the Whiteriver Unified School District and the Dishchii' Bikoh Community School. Dishchii'bikoh Community School, also called the Cibecue Community School, is a small K-12, grant-funded day school in Cibecue, Arizona. It is run by the Fort Apache Agency, a division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The school's superintendent is Juan Aragon. The school is subdivided into an elementary, middle, and high school, each with a separate principal.

Media

Cibecue is the focus of the seminal ethnography by Keith H. Basso entitled "Portraits of the 'Whiteman': Linguistic play and cultural symbols among the Western Apache" (1979).

Notes

References

{{authority control Census-designated places in Navajo County, Arizona Populated places of the Mogollon Rim Arizona placenames of Native American origin