The
Halchidhoma (
Maricopa:
Xalychidom Piipaa or
Xalychidom Piipaash -'people who live toward the water') are an Indian tribe now living mostly on the
Salt River reservation, but formerly native to the area along the
lower Colorado River in
California and
Arizona when first contacted by Europeans. In the early nineteenth century, under pressure from their hostile
Mohave and
Quechan neighbors, they moved to the middle
Gila River, where some merged with the
Maricopa, and others went on to
Salt River and maintained an independent identity.