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Yuman  adj.  Designating, or pertaining to, an important linguistic stock of North American Indians of the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, nearly all agriculturists and adept potters and basket makers. Their usual dwelling is the brush wikiup, and in their native state they wear little clothing. The Yuma, Maricopa, Mohave, Walapi, and Yavapai are among the chief tribes, all of fine physique.






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"Yuman" Quotes from Famous Books



... in ourn! Jest you bring her out here, pleeceman, an' let me give her a bit o' my mind. Oh, don't you be afeared, I won't hurt her! Not in all my life did I ever once hurt a woman—bless 'em! But it's time the gentry swells knowed as how we're yuman bein's as well as theirselves. We don't like, no more'n they would theirselves, havin' our feelin's hurt for the sake o' what they calls bein' done good to. Come you along down ...
— Weighed and Wanting • George MacDonald



Words linked to "Yuman" :   Hualapai, Maricopa, Yavapai, Hualpai, Kiliwi, Akwa'ala, Cocopah, Diegueno, Yuma, Cocopa, Cochimi, Mohave, Havasupai, Mojave



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