What is "papago"

Usage examples of "papago".

For the slight waves in her dusty black hair spoke Spanish, and while her pretty little heart-shaped face spelled Papago, she still had her short but ample figure.

The desert-dwelling Papago nation offered living proof that old Professor Darwin might have been on to something with that notion of flora, fauna, and folks evolving to fit their ways of life.

She added that her uncle, as close to being a chief as the free and easy Papago would abide, kept a remuda of riding stock.

He turned to Rosalinda with a smile on his lips and death in his gun-muzzle gray eyes to ask her how far they had to walk to see her Papago kin about that riding stock.

It was easy to see little Rosalinda had a healthier appetite than your average handsome Papago was ever going to satisfy.

Hohokam what your Papago kinfolk call the old time pueblo farmers who dug all those canals across a desert that must have been a tad less sand in their day?

But Papago respect and honor them because they live longer than most grandmothers and give sweet red fruit for to eat or make wine, if you ask them politely.

The Pima and Papago bands of the Sonora Desert were the only nations both the Na-dene, or Apache, and ferocious Yaqui, or Unreconstructed Aztec, had long since learned to leave the hell alone.

For grim tales were still told of the time Chiricahua raiders from the far-away White Mountains had hit the shyly smiling Papago for fun and ponies.

The Papago had followed the Apache raiders all the way home, like shadows, to pick them off one by one along the trail and then go on terrorizing them and their families, on their home ground, by cutting throats in bed and stabbing the backs of those on the way to take a pee.

Ho, tried to make peace by howling into the darkness and leaving presents for the shadowy Papago lurking all about like slick old timber wolves.

But the Papago just went on patiently killing the Apache raiders, then their women, their children, and their dogs, until nothing was left of them.

Then all the Papago had gone home to do a little farming and a lot of hunting and gathering in their own stark country, where the Apache never bothered them again.

For Longarm knew they were being offered something to eat when the old Papago said something about duka, and everyone knew you said si for yes and ka for no.

Like the Papago encampment itself, their remuda of over a hundred head had been hidden up a side canyon, watered by a recently dammed pool, with plenty of thorny but tasty mesquite for the ponies, mules, and burros to browse as a couple of Indian kids kept watch at the mouth of the natural stock pen.