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sacaton
/ ˌsækəˈtəʊn /
noun
- a coarse grass, Sporobolus wrightii, of the southwestern US and Mexico, grown for hay and pasture
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sacaton1
American Spanish zacatón, from zacate coarse grass, from Nahuatl zacatl
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Example Sentences
Something of this sort is going on at Taos to-day among the pueblos for their land, and down at Sacaton among the Pimas for water.
From Project Gutenberg
If you want to know what the courts do in these cases, ask the pueblo governor at Taos; or the Pima chief at Sacaton.
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At Sacaton, the big squatter, the irrigation company, took the Pimas' water; so that the Indian can no longer raise crops.
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