Hia C-eḍ O'odham (Amerind tribe)

The Hia C-eḍ O'odham ("Sand Dune People"), also known as Areneños, Sand Papagos, or Sand Pimas, are a Native American peoples whose traditional homeland lies between the Ajo Range, the Gila River, the Colorado River, and the Gulf of California.

They are currently unrecognized at both the state and federal level in the United States and Mexico, although the Tohono O'odham Nation has a committee for issues related to them and has land held in trust for them.

They are represented by a community organization known as the Hia-Ced O'odham Alliance.

The Hia C-eḍ O'odham are no longer nomadic, and the majority today live in or near Ajo, Arizona, or the small settlements of Blaisdell and Dome near Yuma.They have often been considered a "Papago subtribe" by anthropologists, along with the Tohono O'odham and several vanished groups.

The Tohono O'odham Nation has used this to their advantage in order to make various claims to aboriginal title to the traditional land of the Hia C-eḍ O'odham.

The stated intentions of the Nation are benevolent, to re-enfranchise their Hia C-eḍ cousins and restore their traditional homeland.

Anybody who can prove a certain percentage of Hia C-eḍ O'odham ancestry can apply for membership in the Tohono O'odham Nation.

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