Historically situated in central and west‐central Arizona, today’s Yavapai are associated with the Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation, the Yavapai‐Apache Nation, the Yavapai‐Prescott Indian Tribe, and the Tonto Apache Tribe.
Synonymy
Variations of “Yavapai” appear in Yuman languages (e.g., Quechan ya∙vapáy), and yav páy was used as an autonym by some twentieth‐century Yavapai. Goddard observes the Yavapai were identified as Apaches frequently after the late‐seventeenth century in a recurrent confusion of the Yavapai with their word for “people”: Ɂpačə. (Goddard in Handbook of North American Indians, v. 10, pp. 53‐54.)
Contains a a retrospective account of Corbusier's service an order‐of‐battle summary, followed by a largely first‐person narrative that speaks to interactions with the Yavapai.
Contains materials on the Ft. McDowell tribe’s water rights, iterations of House and Senate bills seeking redress and resolution, correspondence and records of negotiation, testimony, and agreements amongst stakeholders. Also present are several folders on the Yavapai of Prescott, Arizona, and attempts to resolve water rights, relationships with the town of Prescott, and the transfer of U.S. Forest Service lands to the Yavapai to expand Camp Verde.
Includes several files, and extensive correspondence, clippings, and other documents around Nick Houser’s graduate research on the Tonto Apache [Yavapai] community of Payson, Arizona, later published as “The Camp: An Apache Community of Payson, Arizona,” Kiva 37:2 (March 1972): 65‐73. Houser’s ethnographic study went hand‐in‐hand with efforts to secure a permanent land base for the Tonto Apache, with Fontana, Houser, and others, including activist Vine Deloria Jr., working with the National Council of American Indians (NCAI), congressional delegations, and others.
Arizona Historical Society Materials
The materials located in this section can be found at the Arizona Historical Society Tucson location, an institution separate from the University of Arizona. There you can find manuscript materials, photographs, oral histories and books that highlight Indigenous life in the U.S./Mexico borderlands. This selection represents only a small fraction of the Arizona Historical Society's materials related to Indigenous life in the borderlands. Please contact their archivists for questions about additional materials.
