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TITLE	Pakit - Maricopa, Portfolio 2, Plate 70
CREATOR	Curtis, Edward S., 1868-1952
SUBJECT	Maricopa Indians
Browse Topic	Native Americans Society and culture
DESCRIPTION	“The Maricopa are a small tribe of Yuma stock living as neighbors of the Pima, chiefly in the valley of the Gila in southern Arizona, though a few make their home on the Salt River reservation east of Phoenix. Maricopa, Yuma, and Mohave tradition, while vague on the subject, relates that the Maricopa once lived on the Colorado river between the Mohave and the Yuma. Possibly they were a part of the latter, rather than a separate tribe. Enemies of both the Yuma and the Mohave, they were gradually forced from their home country to the Gila and up that stream. Their removal from the Colorado to their present home was not accomplished at one time, but represented a series of movements up the Gila, until eventually an alliance was made with their old-time enemies, the Pima – an alliance of great benefit to both tribes, for it enabled them more successfully to resist the marauding Apache. The Maricopa separation was much more recent than that of the Havasupai and Walapai from the parent body, for the Maricopa still bear close physical resemblance to their Yuma and Mohave kindred. Furthermore, the mythology of the Maricopa also indicates comparatively recent association with these two tribes. When noted by Father Garces, in 1775, they had not progressed farther eastward than Gila Bend” (Curtis, The North American Indian, Volume 2, page 81).
TYPE	Image
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DATE ORIGINAL	1907
Time Period	1900s (1900-1909)
ORIGINAL FORMAT	Photogravure
DIGITAL IDENTIFIER	plate_70.JPG
Date Digital	2012
DIGITAL FORMAT	JPEG (Joint Photographic Experts Group)
REPOSITORY	Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records. Arizona Capitol Museum Division.
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