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MAKICOPA 



[b. a. e. 



Maricopa being their Pima name. 

 Emory states tliat t he j- have moved grad- 

 ually from the Ciulf of California to their 

 present location in juxtaposition with the 

 Pima, Carson having fonntl them, as late 

 as 1826, at the mouth of the Gila. They 

 joined the Pima, whose language they do 

 not understand, for mutual jn'otection 



MARICOPA WOMAN, 



against their kindred, but enemies, tne 

 Yuma, and the two have ever since live<l 

 peaceably together. In 1775 the Mari- 

 copa and the Yuma were at war, and as 

 late as 1857 the latter, with some Mohave 

 and Yavapai, attacked the Maricopa near 

 Maricopa Wells, s. Ariz., but with the 

 aid of the Pima the Maricopa routed the 

 Yuma and their allies, 90 of the 93 Yuma 

 warriors being killed. After this disaster 

 the Yuma never ventured so far up the 

 Gila. Heintzelman states, probably cor- 

 rectly, that the Maricopa are a branch of 

 the Cuchan (Yuma proper), from whom 

 they separated on the occasion of an elec- 

 tion of chiefs (H. R. Ex. Doc. 76, 34th 

 Cong., 1857). Like the Pima, the Mari- 

 copa are agriculturists, and in habits and 

 customs are generally similar to them. 

 Venegas ( Hist. Cal., ii, 182, 185, 192, 1759) 

 states that about 6,000 Pima and Coco- 

 maricopa lived on Gila r. in 1742, and that 

 they extended also to the Salado and the 

 Verde; they are also said to have had 

 some rancherias on the w. side of Colo- 

 rado r., in a valley 36 leagues long. 

 Garces estimated the population at 3,000 

 in 1775. There were only 350 under the 

 Pima school superintendent, Arizona, in 

 1905. 



By act of Feb. 28, 1859, a reservation 

 was set apart for the Maricopa and the 



Pima on Gila r., Ariz. ; this was enlarged 

 by Executive order of Aug. 31, 1876; re- 

 voked and other lands set apart by Execu- 

 tive order of June 14, 1879; enlarged by 

 Executive orders of May 5, 1882, and 

 Nov. 15, 1883. No treaty was^ever made 

 with them. 



The following rancherias and other set- 

 tlements at different periods are judged, 

 from their situation, to have belonged to 

 the Maricopa tribe: Aicatum, Amoque, 

 Aopomue, Aqui, Aquimundurech, Aritu- 

 toc, Atiahigui, Aycate, Baguiburisac, Ca- 

 borh, Caborica, Cant, Choutikwuchik, 

 Coat, Cocoigui, Cohate, Comarchdut, Cua- 

 l^uridurch, Cudurinmitac, Dueztumac, 

 Collate, Guias, liinania, Ilivavul 



Hueso Parado (in part), Khauwesheta- 

 wes, Kwatchampedau, Norchean, Nosca- 

 ric, Oitac, Ojiataibues, Pipiaca, Pitaya, 

 Rinconada, Sacaton, San Bernardino, ^an 

 Geronimo, San Martin, San Rafael, San- 

 tiago, Sasabac, Shobotarcham, Sibagoida, 

 Sibrepue, Sicoroidag, Soenadut, Stucabi- 

 tic, Sudac, Sudacsasaba, Tadeo Vaqui, 



