Papago
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish Pápago, itself from O'odham Ba꞉bawĭkoʼa (“they eat tepary beans”).
Noun
Papago (plural Papagos or Papago)
- (historical) A Uto-Aztecan people of southern Arizona and Sonora in northern Mexico. Today they are known as the Tohono O'odham ("the Desert People").
- 1895, J[ohn] W[esley] Powell, chapter I, in Canyons of the Colorado, Meadville, PA: Flood & Vincent; republished as The Exploration of the Colorado River and Its Canyons, New York: Dover, 1961, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 24:
- In the valley of the Gila and on its tributaries from the northeast are the Pimas, Maricopas, and Papagos.
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Further reading
- Ethnologue entry for Papago, ood
