Yuma

[ yoo-muh ]

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noun

plural Yumas (especially collectively) Yuma

a member of an American Indian people of Arizona.
the Yuman dialect of the Yuma Indians, mutually intelligible with the dialect of the Mohave Indians.
a city in SW Arizona, on the Colorado River.

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The Fort Yuma boarding school opened in 1884 at the old military fort on the Colorado River in Imperial County.

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The desert landscape comprising the envisioned Chuckwalla and Kw’tsán monuments connected tribes in the region, according to Lena Ortega of the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe.

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It even carried Arizona’s two majority-Latino counties, Santa Cruz and Yuma.

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Similarly temperatures in Yuma, Arizona broke a 28-year record, reaching 112 degrees Fahrenheit, while more than 50 other heat records were broken throughout the American Southwest on that same Wednesday.

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“��ever she was doing diplomatically in other countries, I wouldn’t call it very effective based on what we saw here at the actual border,” says Douglas Nicholls, the Republican Mayor of Yuma, Arizona.

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Yuletide Yuman

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