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Yuma

 
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n., pl., Yuma, or -mas. In all senses also called Quechan.
    1. A Native American people inhabiting an area along the lower Colorado River, formerly on both banks but now mainly on the California side.
    2. A member of this people.
  2. The Yuman language of the Yuma.

[Spanish, from Papago yuumi.]


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Yuma (yū' mə), Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Yuman branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages). Also known as the Quechan, they formerly ranged over a large area in SW Arizona. Although a powerful group, the Yuma suffered much in warfare with the Maricopa, the Pima, and other tribes. In 1853 they numbered some 3,000. A reservation was created for them in 1883, but the next year they were removed to the California side of the Colorado River; they formally surrendered their lands to the United States in 1886. Today the remainder of the group lives on the Fort Yuma reservation in California and Arizona, numbering 1,160 in 1990.

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See A. L. Kroeber, Yuman Tribes of the Lower Colorado (1920); J. Forbes, Warriors of the Colorado (1965).

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The noun has 3 meanings:

Meaning #1: a member of the North American Indian people of Arizona and adjacent Mexico and California

Meaning #2: a town in southwestern Arizona on the Colorado River and the California border

Meaning #3: the Yuman language spoken by the Yuma people

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Yuma can refer to

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Places

  • Yuma Desert, desert in southwest U.S. and northwest Mexico
United States
Bahamas
Colombia
Cuba
  • La Yuma, colloquial name for the United States
Dominican Republic
  • Yuma (river)

People

  • Quechan, also called Yuma, a native people of Arizona
  • Juma people, a native people of Brazil
  • Suma-Jumano (Suma also spelled Yuma), a native people of Texas and Chihuahua, Mexico
  • Johnny Allsman (Johnny also called John), was one tough badass.
  • Krystal Crawford (also called Crystal Gayle), was the most beautiful woman ever born in Yuma(Friday, January 5, 1990).

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