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Author Harrison, Mike

Title Oral History of the Yavapai
Published : University of Arizona Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (433 p.)
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Part I. Background -- 1. Arizona -- 2. Indian Claims Commission -- 3. Maps -- Part II. Tribal Elder Mike Harrison Asks for Yavapai History -- 4. Anthropologist Meets the Yavapai -- Part III. The Yavapai: A General Ethnographic Outline -- 5. Ethnic Identity, Language and Territory -- 6. The Spaniards Save History -- 7. Prehistory -- 8. Population -- 9. Yavapai: Tolkepaya, Wipukpa, Yavepe, Kewevkepaya -- 10 Bordering Tribes -- 11. Anglo-Americans Enter -- Part IV. What the White People's Documents Say -- 12. Extermination Policy -- 13. Mistaken Identity
14. Bows and Arrows against Pistols and Rifles -- 15. Under Military Orders for 40 Years -- 16. One More Armed Invasion in the 20th Century -- Part V. Oral History of the Yavapai -- 17. The White People Meet the Yavapai -- 18. The Land the White People Let Us Have -- 19. When Everything Began -- 20. Other Tribes -- 21. Pray, Sing, Dance, Heal -- 22. John Williams, My Life (1904-1983) -- 23. Shelter, Food, Clothing, Hunting -- 24. How We Lived Together -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index
Summary Posthumous publication of a manuscript completed by anthropologist Sigrid Khera, who began working in March 1974 with Mike Harrison and John Williams, Yavapai elders from the Fort McDowell reservation, to record the tribe's history
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Yavapai Indians.
Yavapai Indians
Form Electronic book
Author Williams, John
Khera, Sigrid
Butler, Carolina C
ISBN 9780816549191
0816549192