FDI - Cocopa

The Cocopa were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe of the Colorado River delta with their aboriginal territory in Mexico. The Gadsden Purchase placed much of the tribe in the United States. They suffered in conflicts with other Colorado River tribes and from the White influx.

Year	*History*
1540	Met by Hernando de Alarcon
1604	Met by Francisco de Escobar
1701	Met by Kino
1776	Met by Francisco Garces who failed in an attempt to missionize tribe
178X	Joined by Halykwami
1826	Visited by R. W. H. Hardy
1850	Joined Yuma and Cahuilla in outbreak at Cupeno village over taxes
1853	Gadsden Purchase placed much of Cocopa territory in U.S.
1900	Smallpox epidemic
1917	Cocopah Indian Reservation created by Executive Order signed by President Woodrow Wilson
1964	Tribe established its first constitution
1985	Tribe gained 4,200 acres via Cocopah Land Acquisition Bill signed by President Ronald Reagon

Year	U.S. Population	Source
1700	0	NAHDB calculation
1800	0	NAHDB calculation
1900	700	NAHDB calculation
1901	450	Chittendon
1973	360	BIA
1974	500	Tribal roll
1980	571	Tribal roll
1981	835	BIA
1989	677	BIA
2000	800	NAHDB calculation

Cocopa Sites:

Cocopa http://www.everyculture.com/North-America/Cocopa.html

Cocopah Authors http://www.ipl.org/div/natam/bin/browse.pl/t19

Cocopah Baby Bark Skirt 1977 http://www.kumeyaay.info/cocopah.html?http%3A//www.kumeyaay.info/cocopah/cocopah_baby.html

Cocopah Casino http://www.cocopahresort.com/

Cocopah Indian Crafts http://cocopahindiancrafts.com/index.asp

Cocopah Indian Tribe http://www.cocopah.com/

Cocopah Reservation http://www.cba.nau.edu/caied/TribePages/Cocopah.asp

Coccopa Indian History http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/yuman/cocopaindianhistory.htm

Cocopa Indian Language http://www.native-languages.org/cocopa.htm

Cocopa Indians http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=COC

Cocopa Indians http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/cocopa.html

Cocopa Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=COC

Cocopa Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/14/show_lang_family.asp?code=COC

Colorado River Culture and Ethnobotany http://www.fourdir.com/colorado_river_culture.htm

Colorado River Mud 1980 http://www.kumeyaay.info/cocopah.html?http%3A//www.kumeyaay.info/cocopah/colorado_river_mud.html

Heavily Used Colorado River ... http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/salton/HeavilyusedCoRH2Olastdrop.html

Original Cocopa Law ... http://www.zmag.org/content/Chiapas/silva_cocopa-feb19-02.cfm

Planners Seek Water to Revive Mexico's Colorado River Delta http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/salton/revivewatermxcordelta.html.htm

Who Is a Tribal Indian ...? http://www.americanindiansource.com/whoarewe.html

*Ethnie:*	COCOPAH (Cocopa)
*Language:*	Delta-California Yuman
*Family:*	Yuman
*Stock:*	Western Hokan
*Phylum:*	Hokan
*Macro-Culture:*	Colorado River