A complete listing of all the Indian villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of Mexico that start with the letter C and can be found in the present state of Arizona.
Caborh
A former Maricopa rancheria on the Rio Gila, south Arizona. 1. Mentioned as distinct from Caborica.
Caborica
A former Maricopa rancheria on the Rio Gila, south Arizona. 2
Caca Chimir
A Papago village, probably in Pima County, south Ariz., with a population of 70 in 1858, and 90 in 1865.
Cachanila
A village, probably Pima, on the Pima and Maricopa reservations, Gila River, Arizona; population 503 in 1860 3
Cahuabi
A Papago village in Arizona, near the Sonora border, with 350 inhabitants in 1863 and 80 families in 1871. Cf. Guevavi.
Camani
A rancheria, probably of the Sobaipuri, on the Rio Gila not far from Casa Grande, south Arizona; visited by Anza and Font in 1775. 4
Canoa
A former Papago rancheria between Tubac and San Xavier del Bac, on Rio Santa Cruz, south Arizona. 5
Cant
A former rancheria, probably of the Maricopa, not far below the mouth of Salt River, south Arizona.; visited and so named by Kino and Mange in 1699.
Canyon Butte
The local name for a group of interesting prehistoric pueblo ruins near the north escarpment of the chief basin of the Petrified Forest, at the source of a wash that enters Little Colorado River from the northeast at Woodruff, near the Apache-Navajo country boundary, Arizona. The remains seem to indicate Zuñi origin. 6
Carrizo
A small band of Apache, probably the clan Klokadakaydn, Carrizo or “Arrow-reed people, q.v. The name is also applied to a Navaho locality and to those Indians living about Carrizo Mountains, northeast Arizona. 7. In the latter case it has no ethnic significance.
Casa Blanca
So called on account of a pueblo ruin in the vicinity. A Pima village consisting of about 50 scattered houses on Gila River, south Arizona. It contained 535 inhabitants in 1858 and 315 in 1869.
A ruined cliff pueblo in Canyon de Chelly, in the present Navaho country, northeast. Arizona. 8
Casa Grande
A ruined pueblo, measuring 68 by 220 ft., situated a little below the junction of the Verde and Salt rivers, Maricopa County, south Arizona. 9
Casa Montezuma
Spanish: Montezuma house, also called Casa Blanca, white house. A prehistoric ruin near the Pima villages on the Gila, south Ariz. Not to be confounded with Casa Grande nor with any other ruin, although the same name has been indiscriminately applied to various cliff-dwellings, ancient pueblos, etc., in southwest United States and northwest Mexico, because of their supposed ancient occupancy by the Aztec. (F. W. H.)
Casas Grandes
A name applied to the ruins of the Franciscan mission of Concepcion, founded in 1780 by Fray Francisco Garcés, near Yuma, Arizona. 10
Casca
Probably Spanish casco, potsherd. A Papago village, probably in Pima County, south Arizona, with 80 families in 1865. 11
Causac
A former rancheria of the Sobaipuri, on the Rio San Pedro, south Arizona, visited by Father Kino about 1697. 12
Cerrito
Spanish: little mountain. A settlement, probably of the Pima, on the Pima and Maricopa Reservation, Gila River, south Arizona; pop. 258 in I860. 13
Cerro Chiquito
Spanish: little mountain . A village, probably of the Pima, on the Pima and Maricopa Reservation, Gila River, south Arizona; population 232 in 1860. 14
Chakpahu
Hopi: speaker spring or speaking spring. A ruined pueblo on the rim of Antelope Mesa, overlooking Jeditoh valley, in the Tusayan country, northeast Arizona. It is regarded by the Hopi as one of three “Kawaika” pueblos the others being Kawaika and Kokopki (?) from which it may be assumed that it was built and occupied by Keresan people from New Mexico, the name Kawaika being the Hopi designation of the present Keresan pueblo of Laguna.
The ruin was first described and surveyed in 1885 by V. Mindeleff, of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and in 1893 James Mooney of that Bureau was present during the excavation by some Navaho of its main spring in which a sacrificial deposit of pottery vessels was uncovered. In ground-plan the ruin recalls those of the Rio Grande pueblos, well represented in the Payupki and Sikyatki ruins of Tusayan, but the Chakpahu pottery, noted for its excellence of texture and decoration, has little in common with that of Payupki, which was occupied within historic time, while it resembles closely the Sikyatki ware. This, coupled with the fact that one of the neighboring ruined Kawaika pueblos was traditionally occupied by Kokop clans, who lived also in Sikyatki, would indicate a connection between the Sikyatki and the Kawaika people, although the former are reputed to have come from Jemez. (J. W. F. )
Charco
Spanish: pool. A Papago village in south Arizona with 50 inhabitants in 1858; probably identical with Chioro.
Chelly
Pronounced shay-ee, frequently shay, Spanish corruption of Navaho Tsé‛gi, or Tséyi, among the cliffs – Matthews. A canyon on the Navaho Reservation, northeast Arizona, in which are numerous ancient cliff-dwellings. Cortez in 1799 15 gave the name Chellé to a Navaho settlement, but this is true only in so far as the canyon contains numerous scattered hogans or huts.
Chemisez
Apparently from Spanish chamizo, a species of small cane. A Pima village on the Rio Gila in Arizona; population 312 in 1858. 16
Chichilticalli
Nahuatl: chichiltic ‘red’, calli ‘house’: ‘red house’. A ruined pueblo visited by Coronado’s army on its journey to Cibola (Zuñi) in 1540; apparently situated on the Gila, east of the mouth of the San Pedro, south Arizona, probably not far from Solomonsville. Owing to the glowing account of the place given by Fray Marcos de Niza in the preceding year, Coronado and his followers were “much affected by seeing that the fame of Chichilticalli was summed up in one tumble-down house without any roof, although it appeared to have been a strong place at some former time when it was inhabited, and it was very plain that it had been built by a civilized and warlike race of strangers who had come from a distance” (Castaneda). The same writer also states that it “was formerly inhabited by people who had separated from Cibola.” Many writers have wrongly identified it with the present Casa Grande. See Bandelier in Arch. Inst. Papers, in, 178, 1890; Hodge, Coronado s March, 1899; Winship, Coronado Exped., 14th Rep. B. A. E., 1896. (F. W. H.)
Chilchadilkloge
Grassy-hill people. An Apache band or clan at San Carlos Agency and Ft Apache, Arizona, in 1881.
Chioro
A village of 35 Papago, probably in Pima County, south Arizona, in 1865 17. Possibly identical with Charco.
Choutikwuchi
Pima: Tcóûtĭk Wü′tcĭtck, ‘charcoal laying’. A former village of the Maricopa, in south Arizona, which was abandoned by its inhabitants on their removal down the Gila to their present location below Gila crossing. It was then occupied by the Pima, who in turn abandoned it. 18
Chuba
A Papago village in south Arizona; population about 250 in 1863. 19
Chubkwichalobi
Hopi: antelope notch place. A group of ruined pueblos on the hills above Chaves pass, 20 miles southwest of Winslow, Arizona, claimed by the Hopi to have been built and occupied by some of their clans. Excavations by the Bureau of American Ethnology in 1897 revealed mortuary objects practically identical in character with those found in the valleys of the Verde and the Gila to the southward, thus indicating a common origin. See Fewkes in 22d Rep. B. A. E. , 32, 1904.
Chukubi
A traditional settlement situated a mile northeast of Shipaulovi, northeast Arizona. It was occupied by the Squash, Sand, and other clans of the Hopi, who were afterward joined by the Spider clan. Being harassed by enemies, among them the Ute and the Apache, it was abandoned, its inhabitants joining those of old Mashongnovi in building the present Mashongnovi pueblo.
Chupatak
Tcüpatäk, ‘rnortar stone’. A former Pima village in south Arizona. 20
Chuwutukawutuk
Tcü′wütütkawütúk, ‘earth hill’. A former Pima village in south Arizona. 21
Coat
A rancheria, probably of the Maricopa, visited by Kino and Mange in 1699. 22
Coca
A former Papago village in south Arizona. 23
Cojate
A Papago village of 103 families in 1865, in southwest Final County, Arizona, near the present town of the same name.
Comac
A former Pima rancheria, visited by Kino and Mange in 1699; situated on the Rio Gila, 3 leagues (miles?) below the mouth of Halt River, south Ariz. 24
Comarchdut
A former Maricopa rancheria on the Rio Gila, south Arizona; visited by Father Sedelmair in 1744. 25
Comarsuta
A former Sobaipuri rancheria visited by Father Kino about 1697; situated on the” Rio San Pedro, south Arizona, between its mouth and the junction of Aravaipa Creek. 26
Comohuabi
A Papago village in south Arizona, on the border of Sondra; population 80 families in 1871. 27
Cops
A former Papago rancheria visited by Kino and Mange in 1699; situated west of the Rio San Pedro, probably in the vicinity of the present town of Arivaca, southwest of Tubac, south Arizona.
Cudurimuitac
A former Maricopa rancheria on the Rio Gila, south Arizona, visited by Father Sedelmair in 1744. 28
Cuercomache
Apparently, a division or rancheria of the Yavapai on one of the heads of Diamond Creek, near the Grand Canyon of the Colorado, Arizona, in the 18th century. They lived northeast of the Mohave, of whom they were enemies, and are said to have spoken the same language as the Havasupai. (F. W. H.)
Cuitciabaqui
A former rancheria of the Papago, visited by Father Kino in 1697; situated on the west bank of the Rio Santa Cruz, in the vicinity of the present Tucson, south Arizona. According to Father Och a mission was established at the Papago settlement of “Santa Catharina” in 1756 by Father Mittendorf, but he was forced to abandon it, evidently shortly afterward, on account of cruel treatment by the natives. This is doubtless the same.
Cuitoat
A former settlement, evidently of the Papago, between San Xavier del Bac and Gila rivers, south Arizona; visited by Father Garcés in 1775. The name has been confused with Aquitun.
Cumaro
A Papago village in south Arizona, near the Sonora border, having 200 families in 1871.
Citations:
- Sedelmair, 1744, quoted by Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 366, 1889[↩]
- Sedelmair (1744) quoted by Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 366, 1889.[↩]
- Taylor in Cal. Farmer, June 19, 1863, 438 in 1869 (Browne).[↩]
- Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 392, 1889.[↩]
- Garcés (1775), Diary, 63, 74, 1900.[↩]
- Hough in Rep. Nat. Mus. 1901, 309, 1903.[↩]
- Cortez, 1799, in Pac. R. R. Rep., in, pt. 3, 119, 1856[↩]
- Wheeler Survey Rep., vii, 373, 1879.[↩]
- Bell, New Tracks, i, 199, 1869.[↩]
- Hardy, Travels in Mex., 355, 1829.[↩]
- Davidson in Ind. Aff. Rep., 135, 1865.[↩]
- Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th s., i, 279, 1856.[↩]
- Taylor in Cal. Farmer, June 19, 1863.[↩]
- Taylor in Cal. Farmer, June 19, 1863.[↩]
- Cortez, Pac. R. R. Rep., in, pt. 3, 119, 1856[↩]
- Bailey in Ind. Aff. Rep. , 208, 1858.[↩]
- Davidson in Ind. Aff. Rep., 135, 1865[↩]
- Russell, MS., B. A. E., 16, 1902.[↩]
- Ind. Aff. Rep., 385, 1863.[↩]
- Russell, Pima MS., B. A. E., 16, 1902.[↩]
- Russell, Pima MS., B. A. E., 16, 1902.[↩]
- Mange quoted by Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 358, 1889.[↩]
- Taylor in Cal. Farmer, June 19, 1863.[↩]
- S. Bartolome Comac. Mange in Doc. Hist. Mex., 4th s., I, 306, 1856.[↩]
- Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 366, 1889.[↩]
- Bernal (1697) quoted by Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 356, 1889.[↩]
- Wilbur in Ind. Aff. Rep. 1871, 365, 1872.[↩]
- Bancroft, Ariz, and N. Mex., 366, 1889.[↩]