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Papago
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Papago Piman-speaking tribe of Native North Americans who inhabited the Gila and Santa Cruz river valleys of s Arizona, and n Sonora, Mexico. Today c. 11,000 Papago people live s of Tucson, Arizona.
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Pima-Papago
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Pima-Papago ETHNONYMS: O'odham, Upper Pirnas; including, at different times...called Papabota, Sobaipuri, Soba, Gileno, Piato, Areneno, Pima, Papago, Sand Papago, Akimel O'odham (river people), and Tohono O'odham (desert...
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Tohono O'Odham
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Tohono O'Odham or Papago , Native North Americans speaking a language that...See R. M. Underhill, Social Organization of the Papago Indians (1939, repr. 1969); J. Waddell, Papago Indians at Work (1969); B. Fontanta, Of Earth...
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Phoenix: Recreation
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States
...since 1939 is the Desert Botanical Garden on 50 acres of Papago Park, containing 10,000 desert plants that represent...the 1,800 existing species of cactus. Also located in Papago Park is the Phoenix Zoo, a privately funded, non-profit...
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Tempe
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Lloyd Wright . The National Football League's Arizona Cardinals are based in Tempe and several major-league baseball teams have spring training camps in the area. Native American ruins are nearby. Across the Salt River is Papago Park.
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Street Games
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
...curator who worked for the Smithsonian Institution and later the Brooklyn Museum, described how bison anklebones were used by Papago Indians in yet another variation of jacks. Folklorists in late-twentieth-century New York City found children in Chinatown...
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Phoenix: Transportation
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States
...is highlighted by an estimated $72 million daily economic impact. Interstate routes into the city are Interstate 10 (the Papago Freeway), entering from the west, and Interstate 17 (the Black Canyon Freeway), entering from the north. These highways...
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Gila
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Yuma, Ariz.; the San Francisco River is its main tributary. The Gila valley was occupied by the ancestors of the Pima and Papago ethnic groups, who farmed the region by irrigation. The ruins of their dwellings are preserved in Casa Grande Ruins and Gila...
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Seri
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...occupation of their traditional territory extends well back into prehistoric times. The Seri were in contact with the neighboring Papago, Pima, Yaqui, and Cochim í , and some cultural borrowing occurred. After contact with Europeans, the southernmost...
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Tepehuan of Chihuahua
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
...that of the Southern Tepehuan, although their point of divergence has not been determined by linguists. Along with Pima and Papago (which are spoken in Arizona and northern Sonora), these languages comprise the Tepiman or Piman Group of the Sonoran Branch...
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