Maricopa people
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The Maricopa or Piipaash are a Native American tribe, who live in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and Gila River Indian Community along with the Akimel O'odham, a tribe with whom the Mar
Pakit, a young Maricopa woman, 1907
Saguaro gatherers, Maricopa, Arizona, 1907
Redware pot by Piipaash (Maricopa) artist Barbara Johnson
Quechan
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The Quechan, or Yuma, are a Native American tribe who live on the Fort Yuma Indian Reservation on the lower Colorado River in Arizona and California just north of the Mexican border. Despite their nam
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…for generations along the banks of the Colorado River. In the 16th century, they migrated to the area around the Gila River, to avoid attacks by the Quechan and Mojave peoples. During the 1840s, epidemics of new infectious diseases took a toll on the tribe…
Yumas in "United States and Mexican Boundary Survey. Report of William H. Emory…" Washington, 1857, Volume I
Two Quechans in about 1875