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Yuma


Yu·ma 1

Y0033400 (yo͞o′mə)n. pl. Yuma or Yu·mas See Quechan.
[Spanish, from O'odham yuumi.]

Yu·ma 2

Y0033400 (yo͞o′mə) A city of southwest Arizona on the Colorado River. It grew as a river crossing during the California gold rush in the mid-1800s.

Yu•ma

(ˈyu mə)

n. a city in SW Arizona, on the Colorado River. 51,000.
Thesaurus
Noun1.Yuma - a member of the North American Indian people of Arizona and adjacent Mexico and CaliforniaHoka, Hokan - a member of a North American Indian people speaking one of the Hokan languages
2.Yuma - a town in southwestern Arizona on the Colorado River and the California borderArizona, Grand Canyon State, AZ - a state in southwestern United States; site of the Grand Canyon
3.Yuma - the Yuman language spoken by the YumaYuman - a group of language of the Hokan family in Arizona and California and Mexico

Yuma


Yuma

(yo͞o` mə), Native North Americans whose language belongs to the Yuman branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languagesNative American languages,
languages of the native peoples of the Western Hemisphere and their descendants. A number of the Native American languages that were spoken at the time of the European arrival in the New World in the late 15th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. ). 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.

Bibliography

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

Yuma

(yo͞o` mə), city (1990 pop. 54,923), seat of Yuma co., extreme SW Ariz., on the eastern bank of the Colorado River near the confluence of the Gila River; founded 1854, inc. as a city 1914. It is a major trade center of an extensive farm area irrigated by the Yuma project. The project has turned more than 100,000 acres (40,470 hectares) of desert into a fertile farm region known for its cattle, citrus fruits, melons, winter vegetables, grains, and cotton. Paper products, machinery, construction materials, toys, and chemicals are manufactured. Two nearby military installations contribute to the city's economy—the sprawling Yuma Proving Ground and a U.S. Marine Corps air station.

Early missions were built in the area by Fathers Eusebio KinoKino, Eusebio Francisco
, c.1644–1711, missionary explorer in the American Southwest, b. Segno, in the Tyrol. He was in 1669 admitted to the Jesuit order. A distinguished mathematician, he observed the comet of 1680–81 at Cádiz, publishing his results in his
..... Click the link for more information.  and F. T. H. Garcés; however, settlement did not occur until after Fort Yuma was built (1850) to protect overlanders on the route to California. After 1858, Yuma was a river port and the center of a gold-mining boom. Points of interest in the area include Fort Yuma (on the west bank of the river), the territorial prison (built 1875; now a museum), St. Thomas Mission (16th cent.), three dams on the Colorado River, and the California sand dunes.

Yuma


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noun a member of the North American Indian people of Arizona and adjacent Mexico and California

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  • Hoka
  • Hokan

noun a town in southwestern Arizona on the Colorado River and the California border

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  • Arizona
  • Grand Canyon State
  • AZ

noun the Yuman language spoken by the Yuma

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  • Yuman
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