Maricopa people

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The Maricopa people are a Native American tribe of the Yuman language family traditionally living along the lower Gila and Colorado Rivers in what is now Arizona.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American people
indigenous people of the United States
alsoKnownAs Maricopa people
surface form: Maricopa Indians

Yuman peoples
surface form: Piipaash people
associatedWith Gila River Indian Community
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalPractice basketry
pottery
culturalRegion southwestern United States
surface form: American Southwest

Sonoran Desert
ethnicGroup Yuman peoples
governmentType tribal government
hasAutonym Piipaash
historicalAlliance Pima people
historicalEvent migration from lower Colorado River to Gila River region
influencedBy riverine environment of Gila and Colorado Rivers
languageFamily Yuman language family
surface form: Yuman languages
locatedInTimeZone Mountain Time Zone
surface form: Mountain Standard Time
nativeLanguage Maricopa language
neighboringGroup Mojave people
Quechan people
partOf Gila River Indian Community
surface form: Gila River Indian Community of the Gila River Indian Reservation

Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
surface form: Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt River Reservation
populationRegion central Arizona
recognizedAs federally recognized tribe
region Maricopa County, Arizona
religion Christianity
traditional tribal religion
subgroupOf Yuman language family
traditionalArt coiled baskets
red-on-buff pottery
traditionalCrops beans
corn
cotton
squash
traditionalHousing thatched brush houses
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering wild plants
riverine agriculture
traditionalTerritory Lower Colorado River region
surface form: lower Colorado River

lower Gila River
present-day Arizona
usesWritingSystem Latin alphabet

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Mojave people relatedEthnicGroup Maricopa people
Quechan people relatedEthnicGroup Maricopa people
this entity surface form: Cocopah people
Quechan people relatedEthnicGroup Maricopa people
Maricopa people alsoKnownAs Maricopa people
this entity surface form: Maricopa Indians
Maricopa language spokenBy Maricopa people
Kiliwa people relatedEthnicGroup Maricopa people
this entity surface form: Cocopah people
Cocopa people relatedEthnicGroup Maricopa people
Maricopa County, Arizona namedAfter Maricopa people
Yavapai people neighboringGroup Maricopa people
Yuman peoples hasPart Maricopa people
lower Gila River inhabitedBy Maricopa people
lower Gila River historicallyUsedBy Maricopa people
Piipaash historicallyAssociatedWith Maricopa people
Gila River Indian Community partOf Maricopa people
this entity surface form: Maricopa tribes
Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community isPartOf Maricopa people
this entity surface form: Maricopa (Piipaash) peoples
Pima people sharesReservationWith Maricopa people
Yuman ethnicGroup Maricopa people
Pee-Posh closelyAssociatedWith Maricopa people
Pee-Posh relatedEthnicGroup Maricopa people
Piipaash language spokenBy Maricopa people
Piipaash language ethnicity Maricopa people
this entity surface form: Piipaash (Maricopa) people
Halchidhoma people relatedEthnicGroup Maricopa people
Piipaash people closelyRelatedTo Maricopa people
Gila River Indian Reservation homelandOf Maricopa people
Akimel O'odham sharesReservationWith Maricopa people