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Mondo's NAT #453 - PimaType: Traditional | Size: Micro 
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| Terrain: By: mondou2 @ | Hide Date: 02/17/2014 | Status: Available Country: United States | State: Colorado Coordinates: N40° 00.895 W104° 52.733 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0 
Native American Tribe Series Pima
First called the Pima Indians by exploring Spaniards who encountered them in the 1600s, these early Americans called themselves "O'Odham," the River people. The Piman peoples, who live in the Senoran Desert region are descendants of the prehistoric Hohokan Culture. They were some of the first inhabitants to turn the desert into profitable farming ground with their many miles of irrigation canals for corn, beans, squash, kidney beans, tobacco, and cotton. Unusual among the Indian tribes, men did the farming and also wove cotton on looms, but the women made the clothing from it. They lived in oval lodges covered in grass and mud over a superstructure of poles. Each village had a chief who was responsible for overseeing cultivation and defense, mainly against raids by the Apache. The tribal chief was elected from their number. In the 17th century the Spanish began to impose their rule on the Pima, including taxation, which resulted in a revolt in 1695. However, they were quickly suppressed and many of them fled to their northern Pima lands. A larger revolt in 1751 was also put down. The United States acquired Pima territory in 1853 with the Gadsden Purchase, which saw an influx of white farmers, causing most of the Pima in the region to move to the Salt River area, where they were set up with a reservation. Today they live along the Gila and Salt Rivers near Phoenix, Arizona.
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