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Subject: Re: The Pima Villages(1846) - on the Southern Trails to CA
Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 09:28:27 -0500

Hi Cindy,

Window Rock is Navajo. The Pima live south of phoenix. The relocation
to chicago is news to me, although the navajo might have gone to work on
the High Steel.

The indians in Arizona fared both worse and better than their eastern
counterparts. The Apache, for one, has never really rebounded. In
Northern AZ the Hopi and Navajo are strongly tribal, and many live as
their ancestors did. It is a beautiful place.

Thanks to Indian Gaming, the Pima are a pretty strong bunch. They were
able to shut down a major thoroughfare in N. Scottsdale a few years ago,
during negotiations with the state.

I am not at home now, but I have a lot of information on Arizona indians
- will get into it next week if all are interested.

Cheers, Noel Beddow Marcy

On Fri, 29 May 1998 18:54:25 -0700 "RUDECINDA LOBUGLIO"
<> writes:
>Bob Norris' terrific post on the (Upper) Pimas describes
>a rather fantastic group of people. He wonders WHAT changes a
>couple of years, etc. made.
>We allowed them to be exploited with regard to their long
>staple Pima Cotton, which is a better cotton that the previously
>held to be the best, Egyptian Cotton. I am told, but cannot verify
>it--
>I never questioned it--that we then allowed the Government to move
>them from Arizona to downtown Chicago "for their own good," while
>a fortune was made from their discovery!! I had friends who were
>involved with a Mission at Window Rock, Arizona Reservation
>who gave me this information. Window Rock is another place we
>seldom hear about, but having seen that Reservation first-hand years
>ago, I think we may have sold out those people too.
>There is another group of Pimas, the Lower Pimas, who
>flourished
>in Southern Sonora and Northern Sinaloa.
>Best wishes from the Sierra, Cindy
>
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