![]() ![]() Writings of the time described the Yavapai men as tall and erect, muscular, and well proportioned and the women as being stouter and handsomer than the Yuma. In the spring of 1875, they were placed under the San Carlos Apache Agency, where, in the following year, they numbered 618. Earlier they ranged much farther west, as far west as the Colorado River, but, they were chiefly an interior tribe, living south of Bill Williams Fork as far as Castle Dome mountains above the Gila River. The Yavapai are an Apache tribe of the Yuman Family, they were popularly known as Apache Mohave and Mohave Apache, meaning “hostile or warlike Mohave.” Before their removal to the Rio Verde Agency in May 1873, the Yavapai claimed as its range, the Rio Verde Valley and the Black Mesa from the Salt River, as far as Bill Williams Mountains in western Arizona.
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