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Pinal Coyotero. A part of the Coyotero Apache, whose chief rendezvous was the Pinal mts. and their vicinity, N. of Gila r. in Arizona. They ranged, however, about the sources of the Gila, over the Mogollon mesa, and from N. Arizona to the Gila and even southward. They are now under the San Carlos and Ft Apache agencies, where they are officially classed as Coyoteros. According to Bourke, there were surviving among them in 1882 the following clans (or bands): Chisnedinadinaye, Destchetinaye, Gadinchin, Kaihatin, Klokadakaydn, Nagokaydn, Nagosugn, Tegotsugn, Titsessinaye, Tutsoshin, Tutzose, Tziltadin, and Yagoyecayn.
They are reputed by tradition to have been the first of the Apache to have penetrated below the Little Colorado among   the Pueblo peoples, with who they intermarried (Bourke in Jour. Am. folklore, III, 112, 1890) They possessed the country from San Francisvo Mountains to the Gila until they were subdued by Gen. Crook in 1873. Since then they have peaceably tilled their land at San Carlos. White (Hist. Apaches, MS.,B.A.E.,1875), for several years a surgeon at Ft Apache, says that they have soft, musical voices, uttering each word in a sweet, pleasant tone. He noted also their light-hearted, childish ways and timid manner, their pleasant expression of countenance, and the beauty of their women. Married women tattooed their chins in three blue vertical lines running from the lower lip.

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