Papago

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Papago is an older name for the Tohono O'odham, a Native American people indigenous to the Sonoran Desert region of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Papago canonical 3
Papago language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American people
indigenous people
alternateName Tohono O'odham
colonialContactWith Spanish Empire
country Mexico
United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalPractice basketry
pottery
salt pilgrimage
culturalRegion southwestern United States
surface form: American Southwest

Oasisamerica
endonym Tohono O'odham
ethnologueCode ood (for Tohono O'odham language)
exonym Papago self-link
federalRecognition federally recognized tribe in the United States
governingBody Tohono O'odham Legislative Council
surface form: Tohono O'odham Nation government
historicalTerritory Altar Valley
Gila River region
Santa Cruz River basin
surface form: Santa Cruz River Valley

Sonoran Desert
indigenousTo Northern Mexico
Sonoran Desert
southwestern United States
surface form: Southwestern United States
language Tohono Oʼodham language
surface form: Tohono O'odham language
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan
surface form: Uto-Aztecan languages
meaningOfName bean eaters
missionHistory Spanish Catholic missions in Pimería Alta
notableReservationFeature shares border with Mexico
populationRegion Arizona
Sonora, Mexico
primaryStateOrRegion Arizona
Sonora
recognizedAs Tohono O'odham
surface form: Tohono O'odham Nation
relatedEthnicGroup Akimel O'odham
Hia C-ed O’odham
surface form: Hia C-ed O'odham
religion Roman Catholicism
reservation Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation
reservationLocation Arizona
subgroupOf Pima people
surface form: O'odham peoples
traditionalCrop corn
squash
tepary beans
traditionalHousing adobe structures
brush houses
traditionalReligion O'odham traditional religion
traditionalSubsistence dry farming
gathering wild plants
hunting

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tohono O'odham alsoKnownAs Papago
Naver Corporation operates Papago
Papago exonym Papago self-link
Tohono Oʼodham language hasAlternativeName Papago
this entity surface form: Papago language