Hueso Parado

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Hueso Parado, Spanish for “Standing Bone” or El Juez Tarado Spanish for for "The Judge Tarado" (1858 census),[1] was the largest village of the Maricopa people in the 19th century, in what is now the Gila River Indian Community in Pinal County, Arizona.

Hueso Parado was mentioned in an 1823 Mexican Army report, as being located 7 leagues (17.5 miles) down the Gila River from the Pima Villages. Hueso Parado village lay on the west and downstream of the Pima villages and north of Maricopa Wells, above the confluence of the Santa Cruz River with the Gila, on a neck of land between the two rivers. The 1859 survey of the village showed extensive irrigation canals on both the south bank of the Gila and the north bank of the Santa Cruz Rivers, with the village in between them.[2]

The 1858 census showed Hueso Parado had a population 314 Maricopa and 263 Pima people also.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Juez was the Spanish title, of the captains or chiefs of the Pima.
  2. ↑ David H. DeJong, Stealing the Gila: The Pima Agricultural Economy and Water Deprivation, 1848-1921, University of Arizona Press, 2009, p.53 Map 3.2 Survey Map of the 1859 Pima Reservation. (Reproduced courtesy of the National Archives and Records Administration: tube 406, Central Map Files A, entry 16); p.55 Map 3.3 The surveyed reservation and the Pima and Maricopa fields and villages, 1859
  3. ↑ John P. Wilson, Peoples of the Middle Gila: A Documentary History of the Pimas and Maricopas, 1500's - 1945, Researched and Written for the Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton, Arizona, 1998 (revised July 1999) Report No. 77, Las Cruces, New Mexico, p.74-75


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