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Yavapai: People of the sun

Yavapai: People of the sun. By: Chris Zenn & Zoe Golden. Tribal name and location. Yavapai The Yavapai are located in Western Arizona. Scott, Jeffrey. “Yavapai Indians”. http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/yavapai.html Oct.21.12 (last updated). General Information.

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Yavapai: People of the sun

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  1. Yavapai: People of the sun By: Chris Zenn & Zoe Golden

  2. Tribal name and location • Yavapai • The Yavapai are located in Western Arizona. Scott, Jeffrey. “Yavapai Indians”. http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/yavapai.html Oct.21.12 (last updated)

  3. General Information • Languages: They spoke three dialects of Upland Yuman language and also spoke English. • Religion: Indigenous to the region, and Christianity • Shelter: They lived in brush shelters called Wa’m bu nya:va and in the winter months, lived in closed huts built with ocotillo branches and other woods.

  4. Important moments in history • In 1903 President Roosevelt established a 24,680 acre Mohave-Apache desert reservation near Fort McDowell. • On December 23, 1873 the Skeleton Cave massacre ended Yavapai resistance by following Spring almost all surviving Yavapais numbering around 1,800 were forcibly resettled at Rio Verde. • When they were discovered in 1848 Us government signed treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo ending war of Mexico initiating claim of Yavapai lands. • Exploration for discovery of gold and other mineral ores in Yavapai territory resulted in 1st significant invasion of non- Indians in 1860. • More recently, after five years of negotiations between local parties and representatives of the Federal Government, the Fort McDowell Indian Water Settlement Act of 1990 became law. This agreement settled all water rights claims of the Indian community as well as dismissing a number of pending lawsuits.

  5. Important moments in history Jacobs, James. “Water Politics and the History of the Fort McDowell Indian Community”. http://www.jqjacobs.net/southwest/fort_mcdowell.html. 1999

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  7. Creation myth/folklore • Yavapai oral tradition tells that the people first emerged from the underground through a large hole. Today this hole is identified as Montezuma's Well. “Ojibwa”. “The Yavapai Indians”. http://www.nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/1172/the-yavapai-indians. December 1, 2009.

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