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Book Synopsis A Cultural Overview of the Yavapai and Their Relation to Yuma Proving Ground by :
Download or read book A Cultural Overview of the Yavapai and Their Relation to Yuma Proving Ground written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1998, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, St. Louis District was contracted by Yuma Proving Ground (YPG), Yuma, Arizona, to research and write a cultural overview of the Yavapai Tribe which would illustrate that they were at one time located in the region of Yuma Proving Ground. ... This cultural overview will show the Yavapai Indians once occupied a large territory in what is now north central Arizona. ... It will show the Yavapai relations with neighboring Indian groups along the Colorado and Gila Rivers including military alliances and rivalries, trade and resource sharing. ... This study utilized ethnographic materials and numerous U.S. Indian Office and Army documents to examine how the Yavapai reacted to the influx of non-Indians. The examination of early Yavapai life and their relations with other Indians, and with the Spanish explorers, reveals a variety of practices, motivations, and strategies which formed the way the Yavapai delt with the non-Indians in the nineteenth century" -- p. vii.