Tamichopa Kikapu (Anishinabe) Reservation of Sonora, Mexico

This Reservation is located in the Mexican State of Sonora. It is about 72 miles south of the Arizona-New Mexico border. This Anishinabe Mexican Reservation may cover over 238,000 acres. Doing research online i learned that in 1906 the senate of the United States held hearings about the Kickapoo Indians of Mexico. Their (Kikapuu) lawyer, Martin J. Bentley, told the senate of the United States that the Kickapoo Indians of Mexico chose the fineness grazing land in all of Mexico, and owned over 238,000 acres of land where they grazed over 10,000 head of cattle. Since the average cow needs 10 to 14 acres for feeding, the size of the Anishinabe Reservation must be correct. They claimed their land was an enormous basin which was fenced in by mountains which rose to nearly 9,000 feet in elevation. And beyond their mountains lay the great desert wastes of Mexico (the State of Chihuahua) where water is almost depleted by the desert climate conditions.

A precursor to the Mexican Revolution is how to describe the 1906 United States senate hearings about the Anishinabe people of Mexico. What stands out is the description of the land the Anishinabe people chose. They claimed land which covered an enormous basin. Sounds and looks like the Mexican State of Chihuahua. In those times (1906) what is now the Mexican State of Coahuila, was a part of Chihuahua. However, since this subject is about an Anishinabe Reservation in Sonora, i'll keep to that subject. Supposedly at the present time only around 100 Anishinabe people are clinging on to their Anishinabe identity in Sonora. Their principle settlement is Tamichopa which is 5 miles south of Becerac, Sonora. Another group of these same Anishinabe people (Kikapu) live next to Nogales, Arizona, and some are even trying to gain federal recognition from the United States. Below are google earth photographs of the Tamichopa and Bacerac region. There are no road close ups.

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