Kohuana
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Kohuana |
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| Ethnie: | KOHUANA (COANA) |
| Language: | Delta-California Yuman |
| Family: | Yuman |
| Stock: | Esselen-Yuman |
| Phylum: | Hokan |
| Macro-Culture: | Colorado River |
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| The Kohuana were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe. They lived on the east side of the Colorado and below the Gila when met by Garcés. They were closely connected to the Halykwami and enemies of the Cocopa. Conflicts with other Yumans forced them to relocate often, and ultimately, to join the Maricopa in Arizona. |
| Aboriginal Locations |
| 2 villages in California and 1 in Arizona |
| Present Locations |
| Most confederated into the Maricopa in Arizona, though some probably migrated to Mexico |
| Year | History |
| 1540 | Mentioned by Alarcón on Colorado River |
| 1604 | Visited by Oñate |
| 1701 | Met by Kino, called "Cutganas" |
| 1776 | Garcés reported that they were numerous and an enemy of the Cocopa; later lived near present Parker beside Halchidhoma; later yet removed south for 5 years |
| 1781 | Several killed by the Yuma, so most merged with the Maricopa |
| 1851 | Bartlett reported 10 living with Maricopa |
| Year | Population | AZ | CA | Source | |
| 1680 | 3,000 | Mooney estimate | |||
| 1700 | 3,000 | 1,500 | 1,500 | NAHDB calculation | |
| 1776 | 3,000 | Garces report | |||
| 1800 | 1,000 | 1,000 | NAHDB calculation | ||
| 1851 | 10 | Bartlett | |||
| 1883 | 38 | per Kroeber, according to Mojave | |||
| 1900 | 50 | 50 | NAHDB calculation | ||
| 2000 | 0 | 0 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Cocopa, Digueño, Halykwami, Kamia |
| Kohuana Sites |
| Arizona Indian Tribes http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/arizona/ |
| California Discovered http://www.greencity.org/discovery.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 |
| Human Impacts on the Mojave National Preserve Area http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2004/1007/humans.html |
| Indian Tribes of North America (Extract) http://www.hiddenhistory.com/PAGE3/swsts/arizona1.HTM |
| Kumiai Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=DIH |
| Kumiai/Cocopa Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=DIH |
| Who Are We? http://www.americanindiansource.com/whoarewe.html |
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