- Ak-Chin Indian Community
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The Ak-Chin Indian Community is a Native American community located in the Santa Cruz Valley in Arizona. The community is composed mainly of Pima and Tohono O'odham, as well as some Yoeme members[citation needed].
As of 2000, the population living in the community was 742, with a median age of 24.2, compared to a median age of 37.1 for all of Pinal County. 89.4% of the population was American Indian or Alaska Native alone or in combination with other races.[1]
Ak-Chin is an O'odham word that means the "mouth of the arroyo."[2]
Language
The Ak-Chin Indian Community has its own written form of the O'odham language, which is in the Piman group of the Uto-Aztecan language family.[3]
References
- ^ "Census 2000 Summary File for Maricopa (Ak Chin) Reservation, AZ". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/QTTable?_bm=y&-context=qt&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_DP1&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_QTH1&-qr_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U_QTP3&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-CONTEXT=qt&-tree_id=4001&-redoLog=false&-all_geo_types=N&-_caller=geoselect&-geo_id=25000US2130&-geo_id=NBSP&-search_results=25000US2130&-format=&-_lang=en. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
- ^ Johnson, Lauri Macmillan; Kim Duffek and James Richards (2008). Creating Outdoor Classrooms: Schoolyard Habitats and Gardens for the Southwest. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press. p. 108. ISBN 978-0-292-71746-6. OCLC 175217539.
- ^ Gordon, Raymond G., Jr., ed. Tohono O'odham. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International, 2005 (retrieved 23 Feb 2009)
External links
Coordinates: 33°00′28″N 112°02′29″W / 33.00778°N 112.04139°W
Categories:- American Indian reservations in Arizona
- Federally recognized tribes in the United States
- Geography of Pinal County, Arizona
- Tohono O'odham
- Indigenous peoples of North America stubs
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