Cocopah
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1. Cocopah - Noun
2. Cocopah - Proper noun
Meaning
the Yuman language spoken by the Cocopa
a member of a North American Indian people living around the mouth of the Colorado River
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As of the 2000 United States Census, the Cocopah Tribe of Arizona numbered 891 people.
In Spanish, the Cocopah are termed Cucapá.
The Cocopah sometimes wear traditional grass skirts.
The first significant contact of the Cocopah with Europeans probably occurred in 1540, when the Spanish explorer Hernando de Alarcón sailed into the Colorado River delta.
This prehistoric culture is mostly likely ancestral to the Cocopah and other Yuman-speaking tribes in the region.