Yavapain.adj.
/ˈjavəpʌɪ/ (A member of) a North American Indian people of western Arizona, closely associated with the Apache; also, the Yuman language spoken by this people. Also attributive or as adj.
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Navajo1808
Kiowa1810
Yavapai1849
Jicarilla1850
White Mountain1885
Navvy1910
the world > people > ethnicities > North American peoples > peoples of South-Western America > [adjective] > Nomadic peoples
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Yavapai1849
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Amerindian > [noun] > northern Amerindian > Hokan > Yuman
Yuma1877
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Yavapai1976
1849 W. A. Whipple Jrnl. 2 Nov. in Rep. to Secretary of War (1851) 17 The Yam-pái-ò is the name of the tribe which occupies the left bank of the Colorado..above the junction with the Rio Gila.
1853 L. Sitgreaves Rep. Exped. Zuñi & Colorado Rivers 9 Mr Leroux..reported that he had come upon a large encampment of Yampai or Tonto Indians.
1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 538/2 1500 Hualapais and 8000 or 12,000 Yavapais and Apaches, without settled habitations, live in a state of continual warfare with their neighbours.
1881 Encycl. Brit. XII. 827/1 Yuma Stock... Chief tribes:—1. Yavipai or Yampai, formerly west and north-west of the Aztec Mountains.
1886 Amer. Antiquarian 8 276 The Apache-Mojaves, Yavapaias, or Kohenins, also belong to the Yuma family. The whites call them Apache-Mojaves but the Indians related to them call them Yavape, Yavapaia, or Nyavapai, and the Tennai call them Kohenin.
1925 A. L. Kroeber Handbk. Indians Calif. lii. 788 Some of the Mohave song narratives begin or end far afield,..in the Yavapai country or in Sonora.
1932 E. W. Gifford Southeastern Yavapai 177 The Yavapai, also called Mohave-Apache and Yuma-Apache, recognize three tribes or subtribes among themselves.
1933 L. Spier Yuman Tribes i. 1 The mountains..rising north of the Salt and lower Gila contained Yavapai bands, whose territory extended from near Globe westward to the Colorado.
1962 E. H. Spicer Cycles of Conquest x. 271 There was some mixture of northeastern Yavapais with Tonto Apaches; the Yavapais and mixed-bloods came to be called Mohave-Apaches, or sometimes Yuma-Apaches by the Anglos.
1970 A. H. Whiteford N. Amer. Indian Arts 54/1 Yavapai three-rod coiled baskets are similar to those of Apache in technique and design.
1976 M. B. Kendall Sel. Probl. Yavapai Syntax p. ix Yavapai is one of three dialects of Upland Yuman, a member of the Pai branch of the Yuman language family.
1985 C. Waldman Atlas N. Amer. Indian v. 146/2 About 75 Yavapais died at Skull Cave.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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