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Arizona WW2 NMCG Casualty List – N-O Surnames

NARCHO, Marvin Lester, Pfc., USMCR. Parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jones J. Narcho, 361 W. 22nd St., Tucson. NATIONS, Allen Quarterman, Signalman 1c, USN. Mother, Mrs. Era Elizabeth Stapleton, Box 1151, Bisbee. NELSON, Claude Egbert, Jr., Pfc., USMC. Wife, Mrs. Louise N. Nelson, 924 E. Pierce St., Phoenix. NELSON, Sern Calvin, Aviation Machinist’s Mate 1c, USN. […]

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Yavapai Indians

Yavapai Indians. According to the Handbook of American Indians (Hodge, 1907, 1910), from enyaéva, “sun,” and pai, “people,” and thus signifying “people of the sun,” but the southeastern Yavapai interpreted it to mean “crooked-mouth people,” that is, a “sulky” people who do not agree with other peoples (fide Gifford, 1936). Also called: Apache Mohaves, in

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Papago Indians

Papago Indians. Signifying “bean people,” from the native words paphh, “beans,” and  óotam, “people.” Also called: Saikinne, Si’-ke-na, Apache name for Pima, Papago, and Maricopa. Táh’ba, Yavapai name. Teχpamais, Maricopa name. Tóno-oōhtam, own name, signifying “people of the desert.” Vidshi itikapa, Tonto name. Papago Connections The Papago belong to the Piman branch of the Uto-Aztecan

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Geronimo, The Last Apache Chief on the War-Path

Far off in the Dragoon Mountains Where Captain Red Beard took me to see Cochise in his stronghold, lived the chief of a band of Apache Indians, called Geronimo. His Indian name was Go-khla-yeh, but after his first battle with the Mexicans he was called Geronimo, and the name was pronounced after the Spanish fashion,

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Pasqual

The Yuma Indians of Colorado live on the banks of the Colorado or Red River, which is very long and flows between high banks. In the Mohave country it passes through the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, a gorge quite as broad and as deep as the famous Yosemite Valley of California. After leaving the

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