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For millennia, American Indian peoples lived within the area, using
the resources and lands to sustain their lives and cultures. These lands
have been and continue to be subject to active, often dramatic, and ever-changing
natural forces that can alter water supplies, change vegetation zones,
make new landforms from tectonic or
volcanic events,
and include cutting or filling geological processes. Climatic changes that have occurred since
the end of the Ice Age have altered moisture in lakes and marshes, affected
animal populations and plant life, and challenged humans to adapt. This
area is characterized by a series of parallel, northward-draining trough-like
valleys between north-south oriented mountain systems that form rain shadows,
resulting in more evaporation than precipitation and general aridity. The
basic necessities for human life of American Indian peoples are present
– water and food, materials for tools, access to routes for traveling,
special places for spiritual rites that continue today, and a sense of
land association and place identity. These peoples’ presence has resulted
in a tangible heritage of cultural materials, remembered place names and
associations, and attachments to the land from history to modern times.
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MohaveEastern Mojave/Colorado River: Their life centered around the river. They relied on annual overflow to irrigate their crops of ...ChemehueviEastern & Southern Mojave: The Chemehuevi territory lay off the lower Colorado River north and west toward Death Valley and ...CahuillaSouthern Mojave & Northern Colorado: The Cahuillas hunted with throwing sticks, clubs, nets, traps, dead falls with seed triggers, ...SerranoSouthern & Western Mojave: Each clan was composed of lineage sub-units, each of which had its own territorial base ...VanyumeWestern & Southern Mojave: The Vanyume were the desert Serrano. They ranged along the ...TataviamWestern Mojave and San Gariel Mountains: The Tatavium lived in the vicinity of Vasquez Rocks ...KitanemukWestern Mojave: The Kitanemuk were dependant on acorns from the abundant oak in the western ...KawaiisuNorthern Mojave: Being hunter-gatherers, the Kawaiisu roamed their territory in search of ...TubatulabalNorthern Mojave: The degree to which the Tubatulabal language diverges from ...Western MonoNorthern Mojave: Like other remotely located tribes in California, their population has ...KosoNorthern Mojave: The Koso lived in the area east of the crest of the Sierra, south of ...Southern PaiuteHistorically, the largest population concentrations of Paiutes were along the ...Owens Valley PaiuteOwens Valley: Within these tribal territories were a number of villages. In winter the people ...ShoshoneNorth Mojave: Western Shoshoni occupied what is today northern and western Nevada. ...Timbisha ShoshoneDeath Valley: Mesquite trees were always a focal point of Timbisha culture. Tribal members would ...YokutsThey are subdivided into tribes, each numbering two to three hundred persons, and ...Arizona Hualapai Havasupai Halchidoma Yavapai Maricopa
A scout for the U.S. Railroad Survey in 1853 reported that “A mountain range
extends from San Bernardino Mountain in a southeasterly direction nearly, if not quite, to the Colorado.
Between these mountains and the mountains of the Mohave nothing is known of the country. I have never
heard of a white man who had penetrated it. I am inclined to the belief that it is barren, mountainous
desert composed of a system of basins and mountain ranges. It would be an exceedingly difficult country
to explore on account of the absence of water and there is no rainy season of any consequence.” Pictures of petroglyphs at sites throughout the Mojave Desert Petroglyphs The rock art of the Mojave Desert Native Americans Coyote Tails Tales of Brother Coyote ??? Clever Trickster - Bungler ??? |
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