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desert than upon agriculture the}' are less settled in 

 their habits. 



Yiiffian. A\'ith the Pima live the Maricopa who 

 came to them from the mouth of the Gila River in 

 historic times. They are now nearly identical in 

 culture with the Pima but their language is Yuman. 

 There is another tribe speaking a Yuman language, the 

 Yavapai, who seem to have lived for centuries along 

 the Rio Verde. They have often been locally called 

 Apache, or, to distinguish them from the Athapascan 

 tribes with whom they are friendly, Mohave Apache. 



Of the same linguistic stock are the Havasupai who' 

 have their villages in the canyon of Cataract Creek, a 

 few miles southwest of the Grand Canyon of the Colo- 

 rado. They are close friends of the Hopi and seem 

 to resemble them in some respects although they do- 

 not build terraced houses. 



The Walapai, also of the same linguistic stock, live 

 in the territory included in the great bend of the 

 Colorado where it swings from the west toward the 

 south. 



Along the Colorado itself are the Mohave who- 

 formerly lived from the Nevada line southward half- 

 way to the mouth of that river. The Ymna live near 

 the mouth of the Colorado where it receives the waters 

 of the Gila. The last two tribes, while they are cut off 

 from the California tribes by the Mohave desert, in 

 some ways resemble them and are not particularly like 

 the other peoples of the Southwest. They have 

 adapted themselves to the pecuHar conditions imposed 

 by their river ^^alley home. 



