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The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation (Yavapai: A'ba:ja), formerly the Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Community of the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation, is a federally recognized tribe and Indian reservation in Maricopa County, Arizona about 23 miles (37 km) northeast of Phoenix.
The Yavapai were so demoralized by this and other actions by Crook that they surrendered at Camp Verde (renamed Fort McDowell), on April 6, 1873. [13] This was the start of the Tonto Basin Campaign. In 1925, a group of Yavapai from the Fort McDowell Reservation, along with a Maricopa County Sheriff, collected the bones from the cave, by then ...
Clinton M. Pattea (November 11, 1930 – July 5, 2013) was an American activist and politician, who served as the longtime President of the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, a predominantly Yavapai Indian reservation in Maricopa County, Arizona, until his death in 2013.
The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation is located within Maricopa County approximately 20 miles northeast of Phoenix. The reservation came into existence when Theodore Roosevelt had Fort McDowell declared a 40 square miles (100 km 2) reservation in 1903, [41] but by 1910, the Office of Indian Affairs was attempting to relocate the residents, to open ...
On December 28, 1872, Crook's men encountered the Yavapai stronghold at Skeleton Cave, located in the Salt River Canyon northeast of present-day Phoenix, Arizona. Crook's force was composed of 130 troopers from the 5th Cavalry Regiment led by Captain William H. Brown and another thirty Apache scouts. [5]
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Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation: Yavapai: A'ba:ja 1903 971 38.5 (99.7) Maricopa: Fort Mojave Indian Reservation: Mohave: Pipa Aha Macav 1890 1,004 65.4 (169.4) Mohave: Extends into California (San Bernardino) and Nevada Fort Yuma Indian Reservation: Quechan: Kwatsáan 1884 2,197 68.1 (176.4) Yuma: Extends into California Gila River Indian Community
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