Xalychidom

The Halchidhoma, who call themselves Xalychidom Piipaa, meaning the people who live toward the water, were a river people of the lower Colorado around its junction with the Gila. In 1604 and 1605, the Spanish expedition of Juan de Oñate met the Alebdoma on the lower Colorado; when the missionary Eusebio Kino returned in 1700, the tribe had shifted about a hundred miles upriver.

In the warfare of the Colorado tribes, the Halchidhoma sided with the Maricopa and Cocopa against the Quechan and Mohave. In the 1820s the Mohave and Quechan drove them from the river, and they took refuge with the Maricopa on the middle Gila.

Some families moved on to Lehi on the Salt River and kept a separate identity, while the rest merged into the Maricopa; their abandoned Colorado lands were taken over by the Chemehuevi.