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Mohave people

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. The Colorado River Indian Reservation includes parts of California and Arizona and is shared by members of the Chemehuevi, Hopi, and Navajo peoples.

The original Colorado River and Fort Mojave reservations were established in 1865 and 1870, respectively. Both reservations include substantial senior water rights in the Colorado River; water is drawn for use in irrigated farming.


The four combined tribes sharing the Colorado River Indian Reservation function today as one geo-political unit known as the federally recognized Colorado River Indian Tribes; each tribe also continues to maintain and observe its individual traditions, distinct religions, and culturally unique identities.

Current status[edit]

The Mohave, along with the Chemehuevi, some Hopi, and some Navajo, share the Colorado River Indian Reservation and function today as one geopolitical unit known as the federally recognized Colorado River Indian Tribes; each tribe also continues to maintain and observe its individual traditions, distinct religions, and culturally unique identities. The Colorado River Indian Tribes headquarters, library and museum are in Parker, Arizona, about 40 miles (64 km) north of I-10. The Colorado River Indian Tribes Native American Days Fair & Expo is held annually in Parker, from Thursday through Sunday during the first week of October. The Megathrow Traditional Bird Singing & Dancing social event is also celebrated annually, on the third weekend of March. RV facilities are available along the Colorado River.

Mohave traditional narratives

Blythe geoglyphs

Fort Mohave, Arizona

Bullhead City, Arizona

Population of Native California

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Devereux, George. 1935. "Sexual Life of the Mohave Indians", unpublished PhD Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of California.

Devereux, George. 1937. "Institutionalized Homosexuality of the Mohave Indians". 9:498–527.

Human Biology

Devereux, George. 1939. "Mohave Soul Concepts," 39:417–422.

American Anthropologist

Devereux, George. 1939. "Mohave Culture and Personality". Character and Personality 8:91–109, 1939.

Devereux, George. 1938. "L'envoûtement chez les Indiens Mohave. Journal de la Société des Americanistes de Paris 29:405–412.

Devereux, George. 1939. "The Social and Cultural Implications of Incest among the Mohave Indians". 8:510–533.

Psychoanalytic Quarterly

Devereux, George. 1941. "Mohave Beliefs Concerning Twins". 43:573–592.

American Anthropologist

Devereux, George. 1942. "Primitive Psychiatry (Part II)". 11:522–542.

Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Devereux, George. 1947. "Mohave Orality". 16:519–546.

Psychoanalytic Quarterly

Devereux, George. 1948. The Mohave Indian Kamalo:y. Journal of Clinical Psychopathology.

Devereux, George. 1950. "Heterosexual Behavior of the Mohave Indians". Psychoanalysis and the Social Sciences 2(1):85–128.

Devereux, George. 1948. "Mohave Pregnancy". Acta Americana 6:89–116.

Fathauer, George, H.. 1951. , The Ohio Journal of Science, 51(5), September 1951, pp. 273–276.

"Religion in Mohave Social Structure"

Forde, C. Daryll. 1931. "Ethnography of the Yuma Indians". University of California Publications in American Archeology and Ethnology 28:83–278.

Garcés, Francisco. 1900. On the Trail of a Spanish Pioneer: The Diary and Itinerary of Francisco Garcés. Edited by Elliott Coues. 2 vols. Harper, New York.

(on-line)

Hall, S. H. 1903. "The Burning of a Mohave Chief," Out West 18:60–65.

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Ives, Lt. Joseph C. 1861. Report Upon the Colorado River of the West, 36th Cong., 1st Sess., Senate Exec. Doc. Pt. I, 71. Washington, D.C.

Kroeber, A. L. 1925. Handbook of the Indians of California. Bulletin No. 78. Washington, D.C.

Bureau of American Ethnology

Sherer, Lorraine M. 1966. "Great Chieftains of the Mohave Indians". Southern California Quarterly 48(1):1–35. Los Angeles, California.

Sherer, Lorraine M. 1967. "The Name Mojave, Mohave: A History of its Origin and Meaning". Southern California Quarterly 49(4):1–36. Los Angeles, California.

Sherer, Lorraine M. and Frances Stillman. 1994. Bitterness Road: The Mojave, 1604–1860, Menlo Park, California: Ballena Press.

Stewart, Kenneth M. 1947. "An Account of the Mohave Mourning Ceremony". American Anthropologist 49:146–148.

Whipple, Lt. Amiel Weeks. 1854. "Corps of Topographical Engineers Report". Pt. I, 114.

White, Helen C. 1947. Dust on the King's Highway. Macmillan, New York.

Report of the Secretary of the Interior, 1890–1891, II, vi

Reports of the Secretary of the Interior, 1891–1930, containing the annual reports of the superintendents of the Fort Mojave School from 1891 through 1930.

Pritzker, Barry M. A Native American Encyclopedia: History, Culture, and Peoples. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.  978-0195138771.

ISBN

Sherer, Lorraine Miller. 1965. "The Clan System of the Fort Mojave Indians: A Contemporary Survey." Southern California Quarterly 47(1):1–72. Los Angeles, California.

Zappia, Natale A. (2014). Traders and Raiders: The Indigenous World of the Colorado Basin, 1540–1859. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press.

official website

Fort Mojave Indian Tribe

official website

Colorado River Indian Tribes

Colorado River Indian Tribes Public Library/Archive

National Park Service: History & Culture

NPR audio documentary

"Creation Songs of the Mohave people"