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!
Bagiopa. A tribe of whom Fray Francisco Garcés (Diary,
1900) heard in 1776, at which time they lived N. of the Rio Colorado, where
they are located on Font s map of 1777. The fact that Padre Eusebio Kino, while
near the mouth of the Rio Colorado in 1701, heard of them from other Indians and
placed them on the gulf coast of Lower California on his map of that date, has
created the impression that the Bagiopa were one of the Lower Colorado
Yuman tribes; but because they were never actually seen in this locality by
the Jesuit and Franciscan missionaries of the period, they are regarded as
probably having belonged to the
Shoshonean family. The name is apparently of
Piman origin (opa, people ). (F. W. H. )
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
