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Jabanimó

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Jabanimó[1] or Hawani Mo'o ("Raven's Head") was an Akimel O'odham leader involved in Native American uprisings during the 1750s, possibly including the 1751 Pima Revolt.

Biography

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Jabanimó was an O'odham chief originally from the Gila River area.[2][3] Contemporary sources disagree on whether he was involved in the 1751 Pima Revolt.[4] He organized native resistance along the Santa Cruz River, encouraging residents of Mission San Xavier del Bac and Mission San Cosme y Damián de Tucsón to resist the Jesuit missionaries.[5][3]

In 1756, Jabanimó led a group of O'odham and Papagos against San Xavier del Bac.[2] He was joined by surviving followers of Luis Oacpicagigua, led by Oacpicagigua's son Cipriano.[2][4] Assisted by sympathetic native residents of Bac, the group looted the mission, including the church and the homes of natives loyal to the Jesuits.[2][3] Resident missionary Alonso Ignacio Benito Espinosa escaped to Presidio San Ignacio de Tubac.[6][7]

Governor Juan Antonio de Mendoza [es] and Captain Francisco Elías Gonzalez led a punitive expedition in response, defeating Jabanimó and his followers near Gila Bend.[7][3] Fifteen natives were killed,[3] but Jabanimó himself survived by hiding among the reeds on the shore of the Gila River.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Sometimes spelled Gabanimó.
  2. ^ a b c d Sheridan, Thomas E. (26 May 2016). Landscapes of Fraud: Mission Tumacácori, the Baca Float, and the Betrayal of the O’odham. University of Arizona Press. p. 50. ISBN 978-0-8165-3441-8.
  3. ^ a b c d e Wagoner, Jay J. (1975). Early Arizona : prehistory to Civil War. Tucson : University of Arizona Press. p. 110. ISBN 978-0-8165-0339-1. Retrieved 22 May 2024.
  4. ^ a b c Bess, Jennifer (1 April 2021). Where the Red-Winged Blackbirds Sing: The Akimel O'odham and Cycles of Agricultural Transformation in the Phoenix Basin. University Press of Colorado. pp. 49–50. ISBN 978-1-64642-105-3.
  5. ^ Officer, James E. (15 November 2015). Hispanic Arizona, 1536–1856. University of Arizona Press. p. 37. ISBN 978-0-8165-3349-7.
  6. ^ Starr, Kevin (14 October 2016). Continental Ambitions: Roman Catholics in North America: The Colonial Experience. Ignatius Press. ISBN 978-1-68149-736-5.
  7. ^ a b Sphar, Ginny. "Alonso Ignacio Benito Espinosa". www.nps.gov. U.S. National Park Service. Retrieved 3 May 2024.