Hormiguerito, Arizona

Hormiguerito, or Ormejera No. 2 in an 1858 census, (probably a garbled American version of Hormiguero), one of the smaller 19th century Pima Villages, located along the Gila River, in what is now the Gila River Indian Community in Pinal County, Arizona. Hormiguero, Spanish for "ant hill", with the diminutive "-ito", meant Little Anthill.^[1] It was among the smallest of the Pima settlements along the Gila.^[2]

References

^ G. Bailey, Special Agent Indian Department, Report 77, Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, accompanying the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, For the Year 1858, Wm. A. Harris, Printer, Washington, 1858, pp. 202–08. A report about the Indians of the so called Territory of Arizona, including census tables of the Maricopas, Pimas and Papagos furnished by Lieutenant A. B. Chapman, First Dragoons, U. S. Army.
^ Wilson, John P. (July 1999) [1998]. "Peoples of the Middle Gila: A Documentary History of the Pimas and Maricopas, 1500's - 1945" (PDF). Baja Arizona History. p. 153-4. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 16, 2024. Retrieved May 16, 2024.

[1] G. Bailey, Special Agent Indian Department, Report 77, Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, accompanying the Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior, For the Year 1858, Wm. A. Harris, Printer, Washington, 1858, pp. 202–08. A report about the Indians of the so called Territory of Arizona, including census tables of the Maricopas, Pimas and Papagos furnished by Lieutenant A. B. Chapman, First Dragoons, U. S. Army.

[2] Wilson, John P. (July 1999) [1998]. "Peoples of the Middle Gila: A Documentary History of the Pimas and Maricopas, 1500's - 1945" (PDF). Baja Arizona History. p. 153-4. Archived (PDF) from the original on May 16, 2024. Retrieved May 16, 2024.

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