Yavapai

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The Yavapai are a Native American people indigenous to central and western Arizona, historically known as semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers with close cultural ties to neighboring tribes.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Yavapai canonical 21
Northern Yavapai 1

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Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American people
indigenous people
continent North America
country United States of America
currentReligions Christianity
Native American Church
ethnicGroupOf United States of America
surface form: United States
experiencedEvent Camp Verde Indian massacre of 1875
forced relocation to San Carlos Apache Reservation in the 1870s
federallyRecognizedTribe Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation
Western Apache
surface form: Tonto Apache Tribe (with Yavapai ancestry)

Yavapai-Apache Nation
Yavapai-Prescott Indian Tribe
hasCulturalTiesWith Apache
Havasupai
Hualapai
Mojave
Tohono O'odham
surface form: O’odham

Quechan people
surface form: Quechan
historicalTerritory Bradshaw Mountains
Colorado River region in western Arizona
Mogollon Rim
surface form: Mogollon Rim region

Prescott
surface form: Prescott area

Verde Valley
indigenousTo Arizona
central Arizona
western Arizona
languageFamily Yuman language family
surface form: Yuman languages
languageStatus endangered language
populationRegion Maricopa County, Arizona
Verde Valley
surface form: Verde Valley, Arizona

Yavapai County, Arizona
relatedEthnicGroup Apache
Havasupai
Hualapai
subgroup Kewevkapaya (Southeastern Yavapai)
Yavapai language
surface form: Tolkapaya (Western Yavapai)

Wipukepa (Northeastern Yavapai)
Yavapai Nation (historical)
surface form: Yavbe (Northwestern Yavapai)
traditionalEconomy gathering wild plants
hunting game
limited agriculture in some bands
traditionalHousing wickiup
traditionalLifestyle semi-nomadic
traditionalReligion animism
shamanism
traditionalSubsistence hunter-gatherer
treatyOrAgreement U.S. federal recognition of Yavapai tribes
usesLanguage Yavapai language

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