The Ak-Chin Indian Community is a Native American community located in the Santa Cruz Valley in Arizona. The community is mainly comprised of Pima and Tohono O'odham, as well as some Yoeme members. Jump to: navigation, search Chief Quanah Parker of the Quahadi Comanche Native Americans in the United States (also Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are those indigenous peoples within the territory which is now encompassed by the continental United States... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Grand Canyon State, The Copper State Other U.S. States Capital Phoenix Largest city Phoenix Governor Janet Napolitano (D) Senators John McCain (R) Jon Kyl (R) Official languages English Only State Area 295,254 km² (6th)  - Land 294,312 km²  - Water 942 km... The Pima are a group of Native Americans living in central and southern Arizona and what is now Mexico. ... Jump to: navigation, search Traditional basketmaking, 1916 The Tohono Oodham poo poo are a Native American tribe formerly known as the Papago who reside primarily in the Sonoran Desert of the southwest United States and northwest Mexico. ...

Ak-Chin is an O'odham word that means "place where the wash loses itself in the sand or ground."

Language

The Ak-Chin Indian Community has its own written form of the O'odham language, which is in the Tepiman group of the Uto-Aztecan language family. Oodham (often referred to by the names of its two nearly-identical main dialect groupings, Papago (Tohono) and Pima (Akimel)) is an Uto-Aztecan language of Southern Arizona and northern Sonora where the Papago and Pima reside. ... The Uto-Aztecan languages are a Native American language family. ...

External links

• Inter Tribal Council of Arizona: Ak-Chin Indian Community