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▪ I. Yuma, n.1 and a.|ˈjuːmə|
Also 9 Umea.
[a. Sp., ad. Pima-Papago ˈyumĭ.]
A. n.
a. (A member of) an Indian people inhabiting south-west Arizona and the adjoining areas of Mexico and California, now officially referred to as the Quechan.
b. The language of this people.
B. adj. Of, pertaining to, or designating this people or their language.
1831J. O. Pattie in R. G. Thwaite Early Western Trav. (1905) XVIII. 188 Here we found the tribe of Umeas. 1849A. W. Whipple Jrnl. 1 Dec. in H. R. Schodcraft Hist. & Stat. Information Indian Tribes (1852) II. iv. 118 To this day among the Yumas I have never seen anger expressed. Ibid., I will add a vocabulary of the Yuma (or rather Cuchan) language. 1877H. S. Gatschet Indian Lang. Pacific States 156 The term opa, composing several of these tribal names, is taken from the Yuma, and means man. 1891D. G. Brinton Amer. Race II. ii. 109 It has also been called..the Apache, that being the Yuma word for ‘fighting men’. 1892Amer. Anthropologist Oct. 326 This pamphlet..is the fourth of the author's Yuma series. 1907[see G string 2 a]. 1942Amer. Anthropologist July–Sept. 425 Certain structural features of the Yuma language should be outlined... Yuma has three ‘parts of speech’. 1965Language XLI. 305 Yuma has /a/. 1973A. H. Whiteford North Amer. Indian Arts 13 Modeling and paddling is a technique..still used by the Papago and Yuma of Arizona. 1979Tucson Mag. Apr. 27/3 In 1780 Teodoro de Croix..ordered that two new settlements of Spaniards be established among the Yuma Indians on the Lower Colorado River.
▪ II. Yuma, n.2|ˈjuːmə|
The name of Yuma county in north-eastern Colorado, used chiefly attrib. to designate the remains of a prehistoric culture discovered there, and applied esp. to a type of projectile point. Cf. folsom.
1932E. B. Renaud in Proc. Colorado Museum Nat. Hist. 19 Nov. 5 Yuma and Folsom artifacts. Ibid., The number and variety of artifacts of this splendid collection from the Yuma district contributed greatly to our better knowledge of the points which, in recognition, we named ‘Yuma points’ to distinguish them from the true Folsom type. 1948A. L. Kroeber Anthropol. (rev. ed.) xvi. 684 Points called Yumas have now and then been found in Folsom association, as at Clovis. 1949Time 12 Sept. 69/1 Not much is known about Yuma Man, for no Yuma skeleton has yet been found. 1960C. Winick Dict. Anthropol. 277/2 Yuma implements are unfluted. |