PAPAGO

The Papagos (it means "The People of the Beans") I/you/they are a tribe of Indians of America, of language nahuatl, once appropriated in today's States of the Arizona and Mexico. I/you/they have allied tightly with the Pimas and probably they come down from the ancient Hohokams. The Papagos were agriculturists seminomadi. They were pacific generally, but they became violent if attached and they were defended with boldness against the raids of the gangs of the Apaches. The women Papagos are famous for their marvelous baskets in fiber of woven yucca. Their traditional houses were round, to form of dome, with the flat tall part, with a diameter that varied from 12 to 20 feet and to which was of norm united a shelter of branches (ramada). The around 10.000 individuals currently survivors live in the fourth part of a reserve of almost three thousand of acrid in Arizona, while some branches of the tribe have been confining to Sonorous, in Mexico.