maricopas

Updated: June 25, 2025

This I think because, for one thing, the facial characteristics of the other Arizona Indians the Pimas, Papagos, Yumas, Maricopas, and others are very similar to each other but totally different from those of the various Apache tribes, as was the language they spoke.

John H. (John Henry) Cady - Arizona's Yesterday: Being the Narrative of John H. Cady, Pioneer

The simplest and worst consisted in burying the vessel to be burned under hot ashes and building a fire around it, or inverting it over a bed of embers and encircling it with a blazing fire of brush-wood, as is still the practice of the Maricopas and other sedentary tribes of the Gila.

Frank Hamilton Cushing - A Study of Pueblo Pottery as Illustrative of Zuñi Culture Growth. : Fourth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1882-83, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1886, pages 467-522