Indian Reservation Papago

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The Tohono O'odham are a group of aboriginal Americans who reside primarily in the Sonoran Desert of the southeastern Arizona and northwest Mexico. "Tohono O'odham" means "Desert People." Although they were previously known as the Papago, they have largely rejected this name (meaning literally "tepary-bean eater"), which was applied to them by conquistadores, who had heard them called this by other Piman bands who are very competitive with the Tohono O'odham. The term Papago derives from Babawĭ O'odham, that with time became Papago. bawĭ is the word for tepary bean in the O'odham language, Babawĭ the plural.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tohono_O'odham
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Coordinates:   31°52'5"N   111°48'13"W

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  • I do not agree with what is mentioned above as far as the definition of "Papago", the word previously used to describe the native American tribe now known as Tohono O'odham. It states that the Conquistadores gave the name of Papago to this tribe, and that the name literally means "tepary-bean eater". I am fluent in Spanish, as were the Spanish Conquistadores who were here hundreds of years ago.... if they had literally referred to this Indian tribe a "tepary-bean eaters", the literal Spanish description would be would be " comedores de frijol tepari"; if you go to WordReference.com ( on line language dictionaries) and enter the name Papago under the Spanish-English button for a translation of the word, you'll see a message that says "cannot find a definition for 'Papago'". Maybe the word Papago is another Indian tribe(s) definition of "tepary-bean eater" to describe the now Tohono O'odahm, but it is not a Spanish word, so the word Papago should not be blamed on the Spaniards/Mexicans, but maybe on other Indian tribes who used the word to describe the tribe.
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