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	Quechan Tribe Information
		A news magazine, published under the auspices of Quechan tribal members, Elmer M. Savilla, with information not usually carried by the mainstream press about the environment, health issues, government, racism, and more.
		This report, which is Volume II of Bulletin 160-93, November 1994, The California Water Plan Update, describes the history, geography, and hydrology of the region.
		This is the region inhabited by tribes including the Quechan.
	members.tripod.com /~waterbird/quechan.html (326 words)

	Quechan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Volume I. The Quechan (also Yuma, Yuman, Kwtsan, Kwtsaan) are a Native American tribe who live on the Fort Yuma Reservation on the lower Colorado River in Arizona just north of the border with Mexico.
		The first important contact of the Quechan with Europeans was with the Spanish explorer Juan Bautista de Anza and his party in the winter of 1774.
		Spanish settlement among the Quechan did not go as well as hoped and the tribe rebelled on July 17, 1781 and killed 4 priests and 30 soldiers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Quechan (252 words)

	Gila Expedition - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Gila Expedition was an 1857 attack on the Quechan Indians on the Gila River in Arizona.
		In the 1850s the Quechan's setup a ferry business to ferry people across the Gila river on their way to the California Gold Rush.
		Members of a rival ferry operation beat the local Quechan chief and in revenge the Quechan's attacked and killed most of those involved in the rival operation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gila_Expedition (160 words)

	ITCA: Fort Yuma-Quechan Tribe
		Home of the Quechan (pronounced Kwuh-tsan) Indians, Fort Yuma-Quechan Reservation is located along both sides of the Colorado River near Yuma, Arizona.
		For centuries they battled the Papago, Apache, and other tribes for control of the fertile flood plains of the Colorado River (created by Kumastamxo by tracing a course through the desert with the tip of his lance) which is the boundary between California and Arizona.
		The Quechan Tribe has received a grant to build a Heritage Center to be located on I-8.
	www.itcaonline.com /tribes_quechan.html (392 words)

	Assembly gives OK for Quechan casino in Imperial County \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		But Quechan's leaders said the tribe simply was being used as leverage in the big tribes' push for expanded gaming deals of their own.
		The only significant change Quechan made in response to the opposition was to remove a clause that would increase its payments to the state should the tribe's membership decline.
		Under Quechan's compact, the tribe would pay the state 10 percent on the first $50 million a year in slot revenues, with the percentage gradually increasing to 25 percent if slot revenues exceed $200 million in any year.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20060825/news_1n25quechan.html (804 words)

	quechan : AZ IMC
		The Quechan Indian Nation is sending this invitation out to all Nations of Turtle Island to join the Peach and Dignity Spiritual Runners in a journey to preserve the Sacred Lands of their people.
		The people of the Quechan Nation will not be able to travel the ancient running paths of their ancestors to the sacred mountains of thier people or use this land for any of their ceremonial gatherings.
		The preservation of the Quechan Sacred Land is a vital part of the life of the Quechan Nation.
	arizona.indymedia.org /mail.php?id=3852 (1189 words)

	Local News
		Gilbert said in an interview with The Sun that she began taking classes this year with Barbara Levy, a Quechan language teacher in Yuma, but the schedule is somewhat irregular because Levy does not have a classroom or a regular meeting place.
		He stayed with the Quechans off and on for three years, writing down words and figuring out the grammatical structure of the language, said Amy Miller, who is creating the dictionary.
		She said creating a dictionary for the Quechan language is sometimes complicated because it has 38 sounds, many of which are not found in English.
	sun.yumasun.com /cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/10/15793 (705 words)

	Earth Island Institute: Earth Island Journal - Winter 2000-01
		The Quechan have not protested previous mining in their territory, but they view the proposed 20-year Imperial Project — which would involve 880-foot-deep pits, 300-foot-high waste piles, and heavy machinery operating 24 hours a day — unacceptable.
		In the oral history of the Quechan (which teaches the story of Creation and how to live with proper respect for the Earth), sacred geographical features and the trails that connect them are vitally important.
		They were used for religious ceremonies and pilgrimages, and the Quechan say existing trails aid them in navigating through the spirit world when they dream, and help them to gain a knowledge of their history and destiny.
	www.earthisland.org /eijournal/new_articles.cfm?articleID=80&journalID=43 (858 words)

	KUMEYAAY NATION
		On April 23, 1850, the Quechan attacked the ferry and burned the structures.
		The Sh’mulqs from those areas fled to the Mohave, Quechan and to other Sh’mulqs of the Kumeyaay both north and south of the border.
		The Quechan and Cocopas had originally been planning to join in with Garra but internal squabbles prevented this from happening.
	www.kumeyaay.com /history/article_detail.html?id=10 (632 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Fool's Gold (June 4 - June 10, 1998)
		He brought the Spaniards early to Quechan territory, which was situated at a natural crossing point over the Colorado.
		At one local gathering she watched the accusation bring Preston Arroweed to his feet in anger and inspire him to expound on the subject in the Quechan language, with obvious emotion.
		And to reservation nutritionist Barbara Antone, who would like to see more of her people return to growing their own food, the toxicity and destructiveness of a mine here would be an affront to the nourishing potential of the land, both physical and spiritual--they are the same.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/06-04-98/curr4.htm (1125 words)

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		The Quechan Tribal Council shall be composed of seven members of the Quechan Tribe, who shall be residents of the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation.
		The Council shall have the power to prescribe rules of inheritance, except concerning allotted lands under present laws, and to receive voluntary relinquishments of allotments and heirship lands and to issue assignments of land to members of the Tribe upon such conditions as may be laid down in the By-laws.
		The Sergeant-at-arms of the Quechan Tribal Council shall be appointed by the members of the Council.
	thorpe.ou.edu /IRA/quecons.html (2984 words)

	ICT [2005/06/28] Yurok, Quechan sign compacts
		SACRAMENTO, Calif. - The economic fates of the Yurok and Quechan tribes, separated by nearly 1,000 miles and located in diametrically opposed ends of California, are now linked following Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's June 16 announcement that compacts signed by the tribes might yield the greatest number of concessions to the state to date.
		Quechan is allowed to top out at 1,100 machines and Yurok, a meager 350.
		Interestingly, Quechan and Yurok are also among the state's largest tribes in terms of membership.
	www.indiancountry.com /content.cfm?id=1096411140 (549 words)

	Quechan Arizona
		The Quechan believe Kumastamxo, a god, used his spear to pierce the earth causing the Colorado River to flow.
		The Quechan Indian Museum is in Yuma near Interstate 8.
		The museum’s goal is to preserve the culture and heritage of the Quechan tribe.
	www.arizonan.com /Indianlands/Quechan.html (187 words)

	No. 8, Original: Arizona v. California - Exception of the United States
		The United States and the Quechan Tribe reached a compromise based on their joint understanding, reflected in an order of the Secretary of the Interior, that the lands in question are part of the Tribe's Reservation.
		The Quechan Tribe commonly is known as the Yuma Tribe or the Yuma Indians, and all references in government reports and elsewhere to said Yuma Tribe of Indians in fact apply to the Petitioner.
		The Quechan Tribe also offers to stipulate that the proper measure of damages for the portions of the reservation which were permanently taken from the Quechan is the fair market value of those portions of the reservation on the effective dates of the permanent acquisitions.
	www.usdoj.gov /osg/briefs/1999/1original/0008.excep.html (14166 words)

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