Pima
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Pima (plural Pima or Pimas)
- A member of a group of American Indians living in an area consisting of what is now central and southern Arizona (USA) and Sonora (Mexico).
- 1895, J W 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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Pima
- The dialect of O'odham spoken by the Pima