Papago

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Papago is an older name for the Tohono O'odham, a Native American people indigenous to the Sonoran Desert region of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Papago canonical 3
Papago language 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American people
indigenous people
alternateName Tohono O'odham
colonialContactWith Spanish Empire
country Mexico
United States
culturalPractice basketry
pottery
salt pilgrimage
culturalRegion American Southwest
Oasisamerica
endonym Tohono O'odham
ethnologueCode ood (for Tohono O'odham language)
exonym Papago
federalRecognition federally recognized tribe in the United States
governingBody Tohono O'odham Nation government
historicalTerritory Altar Valley
Gila River region
Santa Cruz River Valley
Sonoran Desert
indigenousTo Northern Mexico
Sonoran Desert
Southwestern United States
language Tohono O'odham language
languageFamily Uto-Aztecan languages
linked to: Uto-Aztecan
meaningOfName bean eaters
missionHistory Spanish Catholic missions in Pimería Alta
notableReservationFeature shares border with Mexico
populationRegion Arizona
Sonora, Mexico
primaryStateOrRegion Arizona
Sonora
recognizedAs Tohono O'odham Nation
linked to: Tohono O'odham
relatedEthnicGroup Akimel O'odham
Hia C-ed O'odham
linked to: Hia C-ed O’odham
religion Roman Catholicism
reservation Tohono O'odham Nation Reservation
reservationLocation Arizona
subgroupOf O'odham peoples
linked to: Pima people
traditionalCrop corn
squash
tepary beans
traditionalHousing adobe structures
brush houses
traditionalReligion O'odham traditional religion
traditionalSubsistence dry farming
gathering wild plants
hunting

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (4)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Tohono O'odham alsoKnownAs Papago
Naver Corporation operates Papago
Papago exonym Papago
Tohono Oʼodham language hasAlternativeName Papago language
linked to: Papago