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The Tohono Oʼodham Nation Indian Reservation, is an

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of the

Tohono Oʼodham The Tohono Oʼodham ( , ) are a Indigenous peoples of the Americas, Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the U.S. state of Arizona and the northern Mexican state of Sonora. The United States federally recognized t ...

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, United States. The reservation had a 2020 census population of 9,561. It has an area of , 97.48 percent of the Tohono Oʼodham Nation's total area. The reservation encompasses parts of central Pima, southwestern Pinal, and southeastern Maricopa Counties. The land is also the site of the Quinlan and

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, which include Kitt Peak, and the

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and telescopes, as well as

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. 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 Spaniards first encountered the tribe in 1694, they made note of one of the tribe's inhabited villages called ''Batki'', a site that was abandoned around 1850. ''Batki'' was in what is now the Sells District of the Tohono O'odham Nation.

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''
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Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1941. * Topawa *

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* Kohatk * Tat Momoli * Gu Vo * Hickiwan *

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(portion)

Communications

The telephone

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for the Tohono Oʼodham Reservation is 520.

References

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