Maricopa

Maricopa child

Maricopa

The Maricopa, or Piipaash, are a Native American ethnic group who live in the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community and Gila River Indian Community along with the Pima, a tribe with whom the Maricopa have long held a positive relationship. They formerly consisted of small groups of people situated on the banks of the Colorado River that came together in the 19th century. Their heritage language is Maricopa.

Notable Maricopa

• Ida Redbird (1892-1971) - Master potter of the Maricopa; instrumental in the 1937-1940 Maricopa pottery revival; first president of Maricopa Pottery Makers Association; translator and informant for Leslie Spier’s Yuma Tribes of the Gila River, thus helping to preserve her American Indian heritage.
• Robert "Tree" Cody, Native American flutist

See also

• Gordon, Lynn. 1986. Maricopa syntax and morphology. (University of California publications in linguistics; 108). Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0520099656

External links

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• Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community page on the Maricopa people

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