Crossword-Solution: PIMAS 5 letters, 20 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

The labors of the Jesuits to civilize the Indians are still evident in the mission Indians, the Papagos and Pimas, who live in villages, cultivate crops of corn and wheat, and who, in the Christian and human elements of good faith and charity, are, to say the least, in no way inferior to the Mexicans.

The samples I procured at the Indian villages, from the rudely cultivated fields of the Pimas and Maricopas, have been spoken of as an extraordinary quality.

And these Pimas drew circles around the trail of the Apaches they were following, but one night when they were asleep, the Apaches came down upon them.

The Pimas, a race who live near the Papagos on the eastern coast of the Gulf of California, say that the earth was made by a being named Earth-prophet.

The bulk of them may have been forced south; some in other directions, and, like the Pimas on the River Gila, or the Junanos east of the Rio Grande, have retrograded in culture.60 Some bands may even have reached Mexico, and exerted an influence on the culture of the tribes found there.61 It is only necessary to add a brief word as to the antiquity of the Mound Builders’ works, or rather as to the time of abandonment.