Yavapai

The Yavapai were a sedentary hunter/farmer tribe of the Colorado River Culture. Centered in the Verde Valley, they ranged from the Pinal and Mazatzal Mountains almost to the Colorado River, and from the Bill Williams and Santa Maria Rivers south to the northern drainage of the Gila River. They share the Pai sub-culture with the Havasupai and Hualapai of Arizona, and the Paipai of Mexico. They suffered in conflicts with other Colorado River tribes and from the White influx.

Arizona Present Locations

AZ Camp Verde Reservation, Middle Verde http://yavapai-apache.org/home.htm

Fort McDowell Reservation, Scottsdale http://www.ftmcdowell.org/

Yavapai Prescott Indian Reservation http://www.ypit.com/

Year	*History*
1582	Mentioned by Luxon of the Espejo expedition
1598	Met by Marcos Farian de los Godos
1604	Visited by Onate
1776	Met by Francisco Garces
1873	Removed to Verde River Agency
1875	Placed on the San Carlos Apache Reservation
1890	Had filtered back to the Verde Valley
1901	Assigned the abandoned Camp McDowell Military Reservation
1903	Camp Verde Reservation set aside for tribe
1904	US purchased settlers claims to tribal lands
1905	Tuberculosis epidemic

Year	U.S. Population	Source
1680	1,500	Gifford estimate
1700	1,500	NAHDB calculation
1800	1,200	NAHDB calculation
1873	1,000	Verde River Agency
1900	600	NAHDB calculation
1903	550	Camp Verde Reservation
1910	549	Census
1973	682	BIA
1989	750	NAHDB estimate based on BIA data
2000	850	NAHDB calculation

Yavapai Sites:

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

Depression Era and the Yavapai http://www.sharlot.org/archives/history/dayspast/text/1999_11_21.shtml

Fort McDowell Indian Community, Law and Order Code http://doc.narf.org/nill/Codes/ftmcode/ftmcodech19antiquities.htm

Heavily Used Colorado River ... http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/salton/HeavilyusedCoRH2Olastdrop.html

Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai Language http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=YUF

Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai Linguistic Lineage http://www.ethnologue.com/show_lang_family.asp?code=YUF

Jilmulla, Viola http://dev.lib.az.us/awhof/jimulla.cfm

Montezuma, Carlos, Papers http://www.scholarly.com/mfdetail.asp?S1618

Pai Yuman People http://www.desertusa.com/ind1/du_peo_paiyumans.html

Tribe Donates Skull Valley Fire Station http://www.ypit.com/press/101702_skull-valley.htm

Who Is a Tribal Indian ...? http://www.americanindiansource.com/whoarewe.html

Yavapai-Apache http://www.arizonan.com/Indianlands/YavapaiApache.html

Yavapai-Apache Creation Stories http://www.juntosociety.com/native/creationyapache.htm

Yavapai-Apache Nation http://www.yavapai-apache.org/

Yavapai Basket - Watercolor http://turquoisebuffalo.com/page/TBG/PROD/wa_p/E036

Yavapai Celebrate Legacy of Bold Sovereign Action http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1085589256

Yavapai Indians http://jeff.scott.tripod.com/yavapai.html

Yavapai Indian Tribe http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/apache/yavapaiindianhist.htm

Yavapai People http://www.geocities.com/~zybt/yavapai.htm

Yavapai: People of the Sun http://www.csuchico.edu/art/contrapposto/contrapposto00/pages/thememethod/geraldi.html

Yavapai Prescott Baskets http://www.loc.gov/bicentennial/propage/AZ/az_s_mccain7.html

Yavapai Prescott Indian Tribe http://www.itcaonline.com/tribes_yavapai.html

Yavapai Survived Against Great Odds http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues01/Co05192001/CO_05192001_Yavapai.htm

Yavapai Tribe Moving Forward ... http://www.indianz.com/News/archive/001256.asp

Yuman Mountain Tribes http://ask.nessie.free.fr/az/curtis13.htm

Yuman Mythology http://www.oldandsold.com/articles26/indian-mythology-50.shtml

*Ethnie:*	YAVAPAI
*Language:*	Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai
*Family:*	Yuman
*Stock:*	Esselen-Yuman
*Phylum:*	Hokan
*Culture:*	Colorado River