Tohono Oʼodham
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The Tohono O'odham are a Native American people of the Sonoran Desert, residing primarily in the U.S. state of Arizona and the northern Mexican state of Sonora. The United States federally recognized
Jose Lewis, Tohono O'odham, 1907 or earlier, Smithsonian Institution
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Shrine at Covered Wells, Arizona
Tohono O'odham basket maker weaving, Arizona. Photograph by H. T. Cory, 1916.
Akimel Oʼodham
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The Akimel Oʼodham or Akimel Oʼotham are an Indigenous people of the Americas living in the United States in central and southern Arizona and Northwestern Mexico in the states of Sonora and Chihuahua.
Tohono Oʼodham
…and most of the people have rejected the common exonym Papago since the 1980s. They call themselves Tohono O'odham, meaning "desert people". The Akimel O'odham, a neighboring tribe, referred to them as Ba꞉bawĭko'a, meaning "eating tepary beans". The Spanish colonizers learned that name from the Pima and…
Louis Morago (Akimel Oʼodham), 1872
Akimel Oʼodham dwellings of traditional and brick construction in 1900
Kaviu, an O'odham elder, photographed around 1907 by Edward S. Curtis
Two young Akimel Oʼodham Indian school girls, c. 1900