FDI - Mojave

The Mojave were a sedentary bellicose hunter/farmer tribe. They nonetheless were active traders. They occupied both sides of the Colorado River between present Needles and the entrance to Black Canyon. They preyed on most of their neighbors and had conflicts with their closest relatives, the Yuma. The Mojave had little interest in horses except for food and traveled great distances over desert on foot to prey on other tribes. Their belligerence minimized early immigrant travel over the Colorado River route. They were finally defeated in 1859 and placed on reservations. In recent years, the Mojave people have worked to prevent the placement of a nuclear waste dump near their lands in Ward Valley.

Year	*History*
1540	Reached by Alarcón
1604	Met by Oñate
1827	Attacked Jedediah Smith expedition killing several
1850	Harassed travelers on Overland Trail, Fort Yuma established
1851	Lorenzo Sitgraves survey expedition seeking transcontinental rail road route attacked
1857	Conducted disastrous raid against Maricopa who were aided by the Pima and Papago (Tohono O'Odham)
1858	Attacked a civilian immigrant wagon train, in turn attacked and defeated by Naval Lt. Edward Beale force; end of inter-tribal warfare among River Yumans; military post established later at Fort Mojave
1859	Severe defeat by US Army
1860	Beginning of 10 years of epidemics
1865	No treaty ever signed with Mojave, but treaty set aside by Act of Congress established Colorado River Reservation, occupied also by Cahuilla and Chemehuevi
1867	War with Chemehuevi

Year	Population	AZ	CA	Source
1680	3,000			Mooney estimate
1700	3,000	1,000	2,000	NAHDB calculation
1770	3,000			Kroeber estimate
1800	3,500	1,200	2,300	NAHDB calculation
1834	4,000			Leroux estimate
1900	1,300	350	950	NAHDB calculation
1910	1,058			Census
1930	854			Census
1937	856			U. S. Indian Office
1965	1,500			Wallace
1989	3,162			BIA
2000	3,800	500	3,300	NAHDB calculation

Mojave Sites

Avi Casino http://www.avicasino.com/index.htm

Colorado River Culture and Ethnobotany http://www.fourdir.com/colorado_river_culture.htm

Diverse Neighbors http://www.villageprofile.com/arizona/mohavevalley/03div/topic.html

Early Peoples of the Mojave Desert http://www.blm.gov/education/00_resources/articles/mojave/mojaveposterback1a.html

Fort Mojave http://www.fortmojave.com/

Fort Mojave Indian Tribe http://www.itcaonline.com/tribes_mojave.html

Ft. Mojave Reservation Termination http://www.uhuh.com/laws/donncoll/eo/1911/eo1296.txt

Ft. Mojave Tribal-State Gaming Compact http://www.governor.ca.gov/govsite/pdf/press_release/fort_mojave_indian_tribe.pdf

Jedediah Smith's Journals Across the Mojave http://www.nps.gov/moja/mojahtjs.htm

The Lost Creations Songs ... http://npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/000225.stories.html

Mohave http://www.curtis-collection.com/tribe%20data/mohave.html

Mohave Indian Language http://www.native-languages.org/mojave.htm

Mojave History http://www.avicasino.com/history.html

Mojave Indian http://www.mojaveindian.com/

Mojave Indians http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/mohave.html

Mojave Indians - Beginnings http://www.nps.gov/moja/mojahtm1.htm

Mojave Indians - Culture http://www.nps.gov/moja/mojahtm2.htm

Mojave Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=MOV

Mojave Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=MOV

Mojave Tribe 4th Grade Student project http://www.megapathdsl.net/~ccirino/hvc/webpages/lafaille/mojave.html

Mojave Woman http://www.nps.gov/moja/mojahtna.htm

Song of the Land http://www.nativeland.org/mcs.html

Ward Valley Dispute http://www.oneworldmagazine.org/focus/deserts/wardstr1.htm

Yuman Group http://bss.sfsu.edu/calstudies/NativeWebPages/yuman.html

*Ethnie:*	MOJAVE
*Language:*	River Yuman
*Family:*	Yuman
*Stock:*	Esselen-Yuman
*Phylum:*	Hokan
*Macro-Culture:*	Colorado River