Sobaipuri

The Sobaipuri were an O'odham people of southern Arizona and northern Sonora, with farming villages along the Santa Cruz and San Pedro rivers. Archaeological sites show their presence on both rivers in the fourteenth century.

In 1691 village leaders invited the Jesuit Eusebio Kino to Tumacácori, where a mission was established. The Sobaipuri later allied with Europeans and fought some of their former indigenous neighbors.