CHAPTER III. 
THE VILLAGE DWELLERS. 
THE PIMA AND PAPAGO. 
CONSIDERATION so far has been given to those 
natives of the Southwest who live or did live in the 
community dwellings which are large enough to accom- 
modate several or many families. 
This very special trait of community building and 
dwelling distinguishes these people from others in this 
same region. There are people almost equally seden- 
tary who are, however, housed in one-family buildings 
grouped into fairly permanent villages. 
The Pima and Papago as they are now designated 
are the most important tribes living in villages of one- 
family houses. To the Spaniards the territory was 
known as Pimeria and it was divided into Pimeria Alta 
and Pimeria Baja. The former was occupied by the 
Pima and Arizona Papago and the latter by the Papago 
of Sonora. In early Spanish times there were villages 
on the San Pedro and Santa Cruz rivers occupied by the 
Sobaipuri who, as far as we know, are to be distinguished 
from the Pima and Papago only on geographical and 
political grounds. If there were differences in language 
or culture no record of these differences remains. Mis- 
sions were established among them in the latter part of 
the seventeenth and the early part of the eighteenth 
centuries. One of these was at San Xavier del Bac, a 
village which is now occupied by the Papago. The 
Sobaipuri were crowded westward by the Apache who 
occupied Aravaipa Creek, a tributary of the San Pedro. 
It is supposed the Sobaipuri remnants joined the Pima 
and were absorbed by them. 
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