The Ancestral Sonoran Desert People - U.S. National Park Service
Who were the ancestral Sonoran Desert people? Archeological evidence suggests they may have descended from an earlier hunting and gathering culture that began in this area around 5,500 B.C.E. Over time, as the area grew hotter and drier, wild plants and animals were less abundant.
Who were these Ancestral Sonoran Desert People? - U.S.
Apr 6, 2020 · Who were these Ancestral Sonoran Desert People? No one alive now knows what name the people who built the Casa Grande called themselves centuries ago. Archeologists today use the term HOHOKAM to label the culture that flourished here from 1,500 years ago to …
Native Peoples of the Sonoran Desert: The O'odham - U.S.
Today, the various bands of O’odham people are broken up into four federally recognized tribes: The Tohono O’odham Nation, the Gila River Indian Community, the Ak-Chin Indian Community, and the Salt River (Pima Maricopa) Indian Community.
Native Peoples of the Sonoran Desert: The Nde - NPS
May 13, 2024 · Traveling south from Canada hundreds of years ago, the Nde (Apache) people joined the Sonoran Desert region of the Pimería Alta around 1200 AD according to most historians and linguists. The Nde people refer to themselves as Nde, Inde, Tinde, or Tinneh, which means, “The people.”
Article Series (U.S. National Park Service)
Who were the original inhabitants of the Sonoran desert and how did they adapt to the world-changing arrival of Spanish colonists? The O'odham people (also known as the Pima) occupied a region spanning hundreds of square miles of what is now Arizona and Sonora. Read more. The Yoeme (Yaqui) originated in southern Sonora near the Yaqui River.
The ancestral Sonoran Desert people were mostly sedentary farmers who developed a complex system of irrigation canals to exploit the water from the Gila River Basin. Archeologists use the term “Hohokam” to describe this culture as it existed between 300 CE and 1450 CE.
The Ancestral Sonoran Desert People - Casa Grande Ruins …
Who were these ancestral Sonoran Desert people? Some archeologists think they came from early hunters and gatherers who moved into the river basins of Southern Arizona thousands of years ago. Where these people came from is still in question.
The Hohokam - ArcGIS StoryMaps
Dec 5, 2020 · Recognizing native cultures, their past, and relating these aspects to the modern world an integral part of healing the land and furthering growth in the Sonoran Desert. This Storymap is one step towards using visual data through GIS technology in …
Tohono Oʼodham - Wikipedia
The Tohono Oʼodham Nation within the United States occupies a reservation that incorporates a portion of its people's original Sonoran desert lands. It is organized into eleven districts.
Native Peoples of the Sonoran Desert: The Yoeme - U.S.
The ancestral lands of the Yoeme (Yaqui) were originally in southern Sonora, Mexico, around the Yaqui River. The Yoeme people migrated and traveled widely, likely travelling to the modern day southern Arizona several hundred years before the arrival of European colonists or Spanish missionaries, who later arrived in the 1690s.