Yumanadj.n.

1891 J. W. Powell in 7th Ann. Rep. Bureau Amer. Ethnol. 1885–6 13 With the exception of certain small areas possessed by Shoshonean tribes, Indians of the Yuman stock occupied the Colorado River from its mouth as far up as Cataract Creek.

1901 G. W. James Indian Basketry x. 161 The carrying frame and net of the Mohave Indians, of the Yuman stock, dwelling about the mouth of the Colorado River.

1933 L. Spier Yuman Tribes 151 The Maricopa have transposed the normal Yuman word from south to west.

1950 Nat. Hist. Feb. 76/3 They speak essentially the same language—a dialect of the Yuman tongue.

1970 Language 46 533 The Yuman languages..were early recognized as constituting a linguistic family.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia X. 845/3 The total number of Yuman peoples remaining in the 1970s..was uncertain.

1978 Language 54 219 It crops up again in Southern California, in one subgroup of the Yuman family.

1920 A. L. Kroeber Yuman Tribes of Lower Colorado 478 The Yuma, who call themselves Kwichyana..are known to other Yumans by dialect variants of the same name.

1952 Amer. Anthropologist 54 80 The cultivated plants and the agricultural methods of the Yumans.

1963 Language 39 43 There may have been as many as five such families a little over a century ago, viz. Shastan..; Palaihnihan..; Pomoan..; Chumashan..; and Yuman.

1965 Language 41 305 Yuman shows various reflexes: Mohave, Cocopa, and Kiliwa have /i/.

1978 Language 54 505 The present collection indicates that such a tradition has now also been established for Yuman, a Hokan family of Arizona, California.