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!
Arivaipa (Nevome Pima: aarirapa,
'girls,' possibly applied to these people on account of some unmanly act).
An Apache tribe that formerly made its home in the
canyon of Arivaipa Creek, a tributary of the Rio San Pedro, south Ariz.,
although like the Chiricahua and other Apache of Arizona they raided far
southward and were reputed to have laid waste every town in northern
Mexico as far as the Gila prior to the Gadsden purchase in 1853, and with
having exterminated the Sobaipuri, a Piman tribe, in the latter part of
the 18th century.
In 1863 a company of California volunteers, aided by
some friendly Apache, at Old Camp Grant, on the San Pedro, attacked an
Arivaipa rancheria at the head of the canyon, killing 58 of the 70
inhabitants, men, women, and children the women and children being slain
by the friendly Indians, the men by the Californians in revenge for their
atrocities. After this loss they sued for peace, and their depredations
practically ceased.
About 1872 they were removed to San Carlos agency,
where, with the Pinaleños, apparently
their nearest kindred, they numbered 1,051 in 1874. Of this number,
however, the Arivaipa formed a very small part. The remnant of the tribe
is now under San Carlos and Ft Apache agencies on the White Mountain
reservation, but its population is not separately enumerated.
