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Show 44^ WHO WERE THE NIFORES? or Cuisnurs, howbeit ( siendo asi que) the other nations give them the name of Jamajabs. To the Yabi-pais the Pimas Gilenos give the name of Taros or Nifores; 3 the Jamajabs call them Yabipais, and the Espanoles call them Apaches. Finally, I have learned that the dominant nations, and the most warlike of all are, with preference for their order, the following: On the Rio Gila, the Pima; on the Colorado, the Yuma, Jalchedun, and Jamajab; and the rest in the order antecedently collocated. No vestiges of religion 4 have I found in any of these nations; that which supai of Cataract canon; regarding whom, see a note beyond, under Point 7. * Nifores may have been a general or collective name used by the Pimas for the wild tribes living north of them, otherwise called Yabipais; but it is certain that Nifores is a term which has been used in a different sense from that here implied. For example, I cite a passage in Font's Diary, folio 325. Font is detailing one of his grievances against Ansa, in the matter of the number of interpreters, and says that Ansa put down an interpreter " of the nation Nixora, and there is no such nation, for in Pimeria are called Nixoras those Indians whom the nations beyond capture in their wars among themselves, and whom the Yumas and Papagos afterward bring to Altar and other places to sell as captives or slaves, of whatever nation they may be." Also, if we refer back to the scene of GarceV murder ( p. 22), we find that it was a " Nifora" among the Yumans who instigated that foul deed. * Garces must have had some strictly orthodox or otherwise professional notions about idolatry, or else he did not see very far into the religious cults of the Indians. They had an elabo- |
