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About San Xavier Allottees Association
The San Xavier Allottees Association is a nonprofit that has served people who own land allotments on the San Xavier Indian Reservation of the Tohono O'odham Nation since 1991.
The San Xavier Allottees Association, Inc. (SXAA) is a US nonprofit, not a tribe. It serves people who own land allotments on the San Xavier Indian Reservation, which belongs to the Tohono O'odham Nation. The reservation's O'odham name is Wa:k, meaning "place where the water goes under." It covers about 71,000 acres immediately southwest of Tucson in Pima County. An executive order established the reservation in 1874. It falls within the San Xavier District, one of eleven political subdivisions of the Tohono O'odham Nation.
In 1890 the reservation was divided into 292 allotments totalling 41,000 acres. It was the only Tohono O'odham land included in the General Allotment Act. In the 1970s and 1980s, Wa:k O'odham formed Defenders of O'Odham Land Rights to fight a planned city of 100,000 people on leased allotted land. SXAA was created in 1991 to help allottees with water rights, economic development and environmental protection. Together with the district, it successfully opposed implementation of the 1982 Southern Arizona Water Rights Settlement Act until a later settlement was reached.
The Wa:k O'odham have farmed this land since time immemorial, helping one another with planting and harvesting and making sure everyone had enough to eat. The reservation is also home to Mission San Xavier del Bac, built by Tohono O'odham labourers. Today SXAA offers:
- Community liaison support
- Veteran services
- Educational conferences
- Collaboration with the San Xavier Cooperative Association (SXCA) Farm
- People
- Tohono O'odham (Wa:k O'odham)
- Treaty
- No treaty; reservation established by executive order in 1874
- Headquarters
- Tucson, Arizona
- Province
- Arizona
- Nearest city
- Tucson (About 16 km (10 miles) south of downtown Tucson)
- Established
- 1991
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