Jocome

Jocome is associated with an Indigenous people of the dry valleys and mountain ranges of southern Arizona and northern Sonora. Archaeological research has identified distinctive sites in their homeland. In the late seventeenth century Spanish officials pursued Jocome groups alongside their allies, including Apaches, in the wider Gila country. Conflict also reached the upper San Pedro valley, where Sobaipuri communities fought Jocome and Apache raiders. These peoples moved across a frontier that Spanish expeditions struggled to control.