Yavapai

The Yavapai are an Indigenous people of central Arizona who speak a Yuman language. They are one of the upland Yuman groups, who traditionally inhabited western Arizona south of the Grand Canyon.12

The Yavapai traditionally engaged in some farming, but their subsistence also relied heavily on hunting and gathering wild foods. They often allied with bands of the western Apache for raiding purposes.2

Yuman peoples, including the Yavapai, generally lived in dispersed settlements or hamlets rather than villages and had loose political organizations. Their culture included pottery, a belief in a supreme creator, faith in dreams, and the use of song narratives in rituals.2