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From a native word "hamakhava," referring to the Needles and signifying "three mountains." Also given as Amojave, Jamajabs. Synonyms are: Naks'-at, Pima and Papago name. Soyopas, given by Font (1775). Tzi-na-ma-a, given as their own name "before they came to the Colorado River." Wamakava, Havasupai name. Wili idahapa, Tulkepaya name.
Connections.- The Mohave belonged to the Yuman linguistic family.
Location.- On both sides of the Colorado River- though chiefly on the east side- between the Needles and the entrance to Black Canyon.
History.- Possibly Alarcon may have reached the Mohave territory in 1540. At any rate, Onate met them in 1604, and in 1775-76 Garces found them in the above-named villages. No treaty was made with them by the United States Government, but by Act of March 3, 1865, supplemented by Executive orders in 1873, 1874, and 1876, the Colorado River Reservation was established and it was occupied by the Mohave, Chemehuevi, and Kawia.
Population.- Mooney (1928) gives, 3,000 Mohave in 1680, and Kroeber (1925) the same as of 1770, the estimate made by Garces in 1775-76. About 1834 Leroux estimated 4,000. In 1905 their number was officially given as 1,589, of whom 508 were under the Colorado River School Superintendent, 856 under the Fort Mohave School Superintendent, 50 under the San Carlos Agency, and about175 at Camp McDowell, on the Verde River. The Indians at Fort Mohave and Camp McDowell, however, were apparently Yavapai, commonly known as Apache Mohave. The census of 1910 gives1,058 true Mohave. The United States Indian Office Report for1923 seems to give 1,840, including Mohave, Mohave Apache, and Chemehuevi. The census of 1930 returned 854, and the Report of the United States Office of Indian Affairs for 1937, 856.
Connection in which they have become noted.- The name Mohave has been preserved in the designation of the Mohave Desert and Mohave River in California, and Mohave County, Ariz., and also in the name of a post-village in Arizona. There is also a post village named Mojave in Kern County, Calif.
Fort McDowell Mohave/Apache Indian Reservation
Fort Mohave Indian Reservation
Curtis Collection
http://www.curtis-collection.com/tribe%20data.mohave.html
Council Indian Nations
http://www.cinprograms.org/people/coloradoriver/mohave.html
Mohave Indians: Report on aboriginal territory and occupancy of the
Mohave Indian tribe.
E99
.M77 M6x 1974
The Mojave of the Colorado; the story of the Mojave Indians of the Colorado
River and their meetings with the explorers of the Southwest.
E99
.M77 P3
The Mojave Road / by Dennis G. Casebier.
F786
.C34
Mohave warfare. by Stewart, Kenneth Malcolm, 1916-
E99.M77
S74x
Bitterness Road : the Mojave, 1604 to 1860 / by Lorraine M. Sherer,
with comments by Frances Stillman ; completed and edited by Sylvia Brakke
Vane and Lowell John Bean.
F868.M65
S54 1994
A Mohave war reminiscence, 1854-1880 / A.L. Kroeber and C.B. Kroeber.
E99.M77
K75 1994
