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Pima Bajo
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Pima Bajo ETHNONYMS: Lower Pima, Ó ob, 'O'odham, Ó Odham Orientation Identification. The Pima Bajo, or Lower Pima of northern Mexico, are related to other Piman...
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Pima
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Pima , Native North American tribe of S Arizona. They speak the Pima language of the Uto-Aztecan branch of the Aztec-Tanoan...American languages ). There are two divisions, the Lower Pima and the Upper Pima. Before the mission period, the...
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Pima-Papago
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Cultures
Pima-Papago ETHNONYMS: O'odham, Upper Pirnas...Sobaipuri, Soba, Gileno, Piato, Areneno, Pima, Papago, Sand Papago, Akimel O'odham...Identification and Location. Aboriginally, the Pima-Papagos/Upper Pirnas occupied about forty...
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Hohokam Pima National Monument
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Hohokam Pima National Monument Ariz.: see National Parks and Monuments (table).
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Tucson: Education and Research
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States
...Research Elementary and Secondary Schools Pima County has 17 school districts, of which...regulating and parochial schools operate in Pima County. These range from boarding schools...Tucson include the University of Arizona, Pima Community College, Tucson College of Business...
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Tohono O'Odham
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...closely related to that of their neighbors, the Pima . The probable ancestors of both the Pima and the Tohono O'Odham were the Hohokam people...Kino in 1694. In the 1860s they joined with the Pima and Maricopa in helping the United States to force...
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SIC 0724 Cotton Ginning
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of American Industries
...improved version of the Churka roller gin for use on long-fiber Pima cotton grown in the Southwest. These roller gins used two knife...and one stationary, to separate the cotton from the seeds. Pima cotton accounted for about 5 percent of the cotton grown in the...
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Arizona
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
...Franciscan friars also came to proselytize among the Hopi and Pima Indians, establishing a large mission at the site of present...soon established large farms in the Salt River Valley to produce pima cotton. Labor unrest followed much of this expansion. More...
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Tucson: History
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States
...occupied the site of present-day Tucson when the first white settlers arrived, and after whom Pima County is named. "Tucson" is also derived from a Pima word, "Stjukshon" or "Chuk-son," meaning "spring at the foot of a black mountain...
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Phoenix: History
Encyclopedia entry from: Cities of the United States
...culture but who vanished without a trace around 1450 A.D. Thought to be the ancestors of the Pima—"Hohokam" means "those who have gone" in Pima—the Hohokam had constructed a sophisticated system of irrigation canals, many...
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