Historically , the Oʼodham-speaking peoples were at odds with the nomadic Apache from the late seventeenth until the beginning of the twentieth centuries . The Oʼodham were a settled agricultural people who raised crops . According to their history , the Apache would raid when they ran short on food , or hunting was bad . Conflict with European settlers encroaching on their lands resulted in the Oʼodham and the Apache finding common interests . The Oʼodham word for the Apache ' enemy ' is '' ob . '' The relationship between the Oʼodham and Apache was especially strained after 92 Oʼodham joined the Mexicans and Anglo-Americans and killed close to 144 Apaches during the Camp Grant massacre in 1871 . All but eight of the dead were women and children ; 29 children were captured and sold into slavery in Mexico by the Oʼodham
Camp Grant massacre
Camp Grant massacre
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