Halyikwamai

The Halyikwamai were a Native American tribe who lived along the Colorado River in the Lower Colorado River Valley between the 16th and 19th centuries in what is modern day region around San Luis Río Colorado, Sonora and San Luis, Arizona.^[1] The tribe spoke an extinct variation of the Cocopah language.^[2] The tribe was incorporated into the Maricopa in the middle of the 19th century.^[3]

^ Naomi Sussman. “Indigenous Diplomacy and Spanish Mediation in the Lower Colorado-Gila River Region, 1771-1783.” Ethnohistory, vol. 66, no. 2, Apr. 2019, pp. 329–52. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1215/00141801-7298819.
^ Miller, Amy. “Phonological Developments In Delta-California Yuman1.” International Journal of American Linguistics, vol. 84, no. 3, July 2018, pp. 383–433. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1086/697588.
^ DeJong, David H. “‘None Excel Them in Virtue and Honesty’: Ecclesiastical and Military Descriptions of the Gila River Pima, 1694-1848.” American Indian Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 1/2, Winter/Spring2005 2005, pp. 24–55. EBSCOhost, doi:10.1353/aiq.2005.0043.