Mojave
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FOUR DIRECTIONS
INSTITUTE Mojave |
| Ethnie: | MOJAVE |
| Language: | River Yuman |
| Family: | Yuman |
| Stock: | Western Hokan |
| Phylum: | Hokan |
| Macro-Culture: | Dream |
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| The Mojave were a sedentary bellicose hunter/farmer tribe. They nonetheless were active traders. They occupied both sides of the Colorado River between present Needles and the entrance to Black Canyon. They preyed on most of their neighbors and had conflicts with their closest relatives, the Yuma. The Mojave had little interest in horses except for food and traveled great distances over desert on foot to prey on other tribes. Their belligerence minimized early immigrant travel over the Colorado River route. They were finally defeated in 1859 and placed on reservations. In recent years, the Mojave people have worked to prevent the placement of a nuclear waste dump near their lands in Ward Valley. |
| Aboriginal Locations |
| AZ Pasion; CA Santa Isabel, San Pedro |
| Present Locations |
| AZ COLORADO RIVER RESERVATION, AZ & CA, Parker |
| CA FORT MOJAVE RESERVATION, AZ & CA, Needles |
| Year | History |
| 1540 | Reached by Alarcón |
| 1604 | Met by Oñate |
| 1827 | Attacked Jedediah Smith expedition killing several |
| 1850 | Harassed travelers on Overland Trail, Fort Yuma established |
| 1851 | Lorenzo Sitgraves survey expedition seeking transcontinental rail road route attacked |
| 1857 | Conducted disastrous raid against Maricopa who were aided by the Pima and Papago (Tohono O'Odham) |
| 1858 | Attacked a civilian immigrant wagon train, in turn attacked and defeated by Naval Lt. Edward Beale force; end of inter-tribal warfare among River Yumans; military post established later at Fort Mojave |
| 1859 | Severe defeat by US Army |
| 1860 | Beginning of 10 years of epidemics |
| 1865 | No treaty ever signed with Mojave, but treaty set aside by Act of Congress established Colorado River Reservation, occupied also by Cahuilla and Chemehuevi |
| 1867 | War with Chemehuevi |
| Year | Population | Source |
| 1680 | 3,000 | Mooney estimate |
| 1700 | 3,000 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1770 | 3,000 | Kroeber estimate |
| 1800 | 3,500 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1834 | 4,000 | Leroux estimate |
| 1900 | 1,300 | NAHDB calculation |
| 1910 | 1,058 | Census |
| 1930 | 854 | Census |
| 1937 | 856 | U. S. Indian Office |
| 1965 | 1,500 | Wallace |
| 1989 | 3,162 | BIA |
| 2000 | 3,800 | NAHDB calculation |
| Other speakers of the same language: |
| Halchidhoma, Maricopa, Yuma |
| Mojave Sites |
| Ft. Mojave Indian Tribe http://www.itcaonline.com/Tribes/mojave.htm |
| Jedediah Smith's Journals Across the Mojave http://www.nps.gov/moja/mojahtjs.htm |
| The Lost Creations Songs ... http://npr.org/programs/lnfsound/stories/000225.stories.html |
| The Mojave (student project) http://www.dsusd.k12.ca.us/educational/canatives/mojave.html |
| Mojave Clay Doll http://www.adobegallery.com/pottery/22009-mojave.shtml |
| Mojave National Preserve (history, culture) http://www.nps.gov/moja/mojahtm2.htm |
| Mojave Tribe (student project) http://www.nhusd.k12.ca.us/Hillview/rooms/r31/mojave.html |
| Mojave Woman http://www.nps.gov/moja/mojahtna.htm |
| Perspectives of the Chemehuevi and Mojave People ... http://www.enviroweb.org/wardvalley/thesis/7.html |
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