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Mohave or Mojave (Mojave: 'Aha Makhav) are a Native American people indigenous to the Colorado River in the Mojave Desert. The Fort Mojave Indian Reservation includes territory within the borders of California , Arizona , and Nevada .
Located around the tri-point of the three states, the reservation is home to approximately 1,100 members of the federally recognized Fort Mojave Indian Tribe of Arizona, California, and Nevada (Mohave: Pipa Aha Macav), a federally recognized tribe of Mohave people. Native Americans occupy less than 50 percent of the Mojave reservation.
Kroeber, A. L. 1902. "A Preliminary Sketch of the Mohave Indians". American Anthropologist 4:276-285. (Brief notes on mythology.) Kroeber, A. L. 1906. "Two Myths of the Mission Indians of California". Journal of American Folklore 19:309-321. (Luiseño and Mohave myths, with comparative comments.) Kroeber, A. L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of ...
The Colorado River Indian Tribes (Mohave: Aha Havasuu, Navajo: Tó Ntsʼósíkooh Bibąąhgi Bitsįʼ Yishtłizhii Bináhásdzo) is a federally recognized tribe consisting of the four distinct ethnic groups associated with the Colorado River Indian Reservation: the Mohave, Chemehuevi, Hopi, and Navajo. The tribe has about 4,277 enrolled members.
For centuries, Native Americans have visited Avi Kwa Ame, or Spirit Mountain, to seek religious visions and give thanks for the bounty of the Earth. Mojave Desert tribes aim to turn a sacred ...
The Mohave people — Native American Colorado River tribe, in California and Arizona. Subcategories This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total.
The Sun Dance is a religious ceremony and reform movement, 1890 the Shoshone tribe in origin, [27] practiced by a number of Native American peoples in the U.S. and Canada, primarily those of the Plains Nations. [86] [87] [88] Each tribe that has some type of sun dance ceremony that has their own distinct practices and ceremonial protocols. In ...
This region has long been occupied by hunter-gatherers and agricultural people. Many contemporary cultural traditions exist within the Greater Southwest, including Yuman -speaking peoples inhabiting the Colorado River valley, the uplands, and Baja California , O'odham peoples of Southern Arizona and northern Sonora, and the Pueblo peoples of ...