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The Yavapai–Apache Nation (Yavapai: Wipuhk’a’bah and Western Apache: Dil’zhe’e [1]) is a federally recognized Native American tribe of Yavapai people in the Verde Valley of Arizona. Tribal members share two culturally distinct backgrounds and speak two Indigenous languages, the Yavapai language and the Western Apache language .
The former territory of the Yavapai. The yellow line shows the forced march to the San Carlos Apache Reservation.. Their creation story explains that Yavapai people originated "in the beginning," or "many years ago," when either a tree or a maize plant sprouted from the ground in what is now Montezuma Well, bringing the Yavapai into the world.
The Yavapai reservation is approximately 1,413 acres (5.72 km 2) in central Yavapai County in west-central Arizona.In the early 1930s, Sam Jimulla and his wife Viola Jimulla, with community support, pushed the government to provide reservation lands for the tribe, as they had been unable to secure federal funds for a housing project.
The reservation was officially created on September 15, 1903, by executive order, on a small parcel carved from the ancestral lands of the Yavapai people, encompassing 24,680 acres (100 km 2). [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The acreage had been part of the Fort McDowell Military Reserve, which had been an important outpost during the Apache Wars .
Fossil Creek band (a bilingual mixed Apache-Yavapai band with two names: in Apache: Tú Dotłʼizh Nṉéé – ‘Blue Water People,i.e. Fossil Creek People’ and in Yavapai: Matkitwawipa band – ′People of the Upper Verde River Valley (in Yavapai: Matkʼamvaha)′). Lived along and had a few tiny farms on Fossil Creek, Clear Creek and a ...
John Noble Goodwin, First Territorial Governor First Lot Sold-June 7, 1864 First Prescott Courthouse, circa 1885 Palace Hotel window sign Captain William "Buckey" O'Neill. This is a list of historic properties in Prescott, Arizona, which includes a photographic gallery of its remaining historic structures and monuments.
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There are 132 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Yavapai County, including 1 that is also a National Historic Landmark. 65 of these properties and districts are located in the city of Prescott, and are listed here, while the remaining 67 properties and districts are located elsewhere in the county, and are listed ...