While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
Alchedoma. A former Yuman tribe which, according to
Father Garcés, spoke the same language as
the
Yuma proper, and hence belonged to the same closely related Yuman division
as the Yuma, Maricopa, and Mohave. As early as 1604-05 Juan de Onate found them
in 8 rancherias (the northernmost with 2,000 people in 160 houses) below the
mouth of the Gila on the Rio Colorado, but by 1762 (Rudo Ensayo, 130, 1894)
they occupied the left bank of the Colorado between the Gila and Bill Williams
fork, and by Garcés time (1776) their
rancherias were scattered along the Colorado in Arizona and California,
beginning about 38 m. below Bill Williams fork and extending the same distance
downstream (Garcés, Diary, 423-428, 450,
1900). At the latter date they were said to number 2,500, and while well
disposed toward other surrounding tribes, regarded the Yuma and
Mohave as enemies. Garcés says of them:
"These Jalchedun [Alchedoma] Indians are the least dressed, not only in such
goods as they themselves possess, but also in such as they trade with the
Jamajabs [Mohave], Genigueches [Serranos],
Cocomaricopas [Maricopa],
Yabipais [Yavapai],
and Moquis [Hopi],
obtaining from these last mantas, girdles, and a coarse kind of cloth (sayal),
in exchange for cotton." This statement is doubtless an error, as the Alchedoma
raised no cotton, while the Hopi were the chief cultivators of this plant in the
entire S. W. According to Kroeber the Alchedoma were absorbed by the Maricopa,
whom they joined before fleeing from the Rio Colorado before the Mohave.
Asumpcion, Lagrimas de San Pedro, San Antonio, and Santa Coleta have been
mentioned as rancherias. (F. W. H.)
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
