First Peoples of Sharlot's Country (New Directions, Sharlot Hall Museum Newsletter, March/April 2002, Vol. 29, No. 2)

SHARLOT HALL MUSEUM NEWSLETTER neJKEGTJQNS Museum Yard Sale The series begins with Dr. Harry Swanson, whose expertise includes the Mohave, Chemehuevi, and Colorado River Indian tribes. His talk is entitled “Giant Farmers and Pygmy Slaves.” Hualapai Sylvia Querte, well known to Elderhostel tours at Peach Springs, discusses her people in the “Cultural History of Hualapai.” Archaeologist Chris Coder returns, by popular demand, to speak about the “Dilzhé: The Western Apache of Central Arizona.” The Museum’s cultural anthropologist, Sandra Lynch, will present “Yavapai: The People of the Sun.” For prehistory buffs, Dr. David Wilcox returns with an update on his Yavapai regional study—”What a Sight! Hilltop Communication Systems in West Central Arizona, AD 1100 to 1400.” Senior Curator Norm Tessman will present the evidence on the timing and lifestyle of the very first people in “Elephant Hunting in Arizona: Paleo-lndians and Really Big Game!” The First Peoples Series will culminate with a speech by Bill Smith, site steward for Camp Date Creek, which will prepare participants for a daylong field trip to Camp Date Creek—an abandoned military postlincarceration camp that once held the Yavapai. Check the Calendar for the schedule. Register free for the series by calling Gail Sisson at 445-3122. Drop-in seating for individual programs will be on a space-available basis. Register for the Camp Date Creek field trip by calling Anita Nordbrock at 445-3122 (ext. 18). The sessions will fill up fast, so do not delay. - - **_ ,.-- __L MARCH/APRIL 2002 VOLUME 29 - NO.2;1] 3. —-,‘-— INSIDE;0] .--, J - A Yavapai family in Peeples Valley about 1890-1900. First Peoples of Sharlot’s Country Yavapai Heritage Roundup 1 Indian Cowboys Sharlot Hall - -Award Touched by Daisy Lorenzo Hubbell & I Annie Dodge Wauneka Apotecary Acquisition Du ring the month of March you are invited to walk the lands of the A’bahhjah and DilzhO in a series of lectures and discussions on the First Peoples of Sharlot’s Country. Walking the land in knee-high moccasins the A’bahhjah and DilzhO left few reminders of their struggles, their passions, their ambitions, and their greatness. The A’bahhjah spoke a tongue modern anthropologists call Yuman. They called themselves A’bahhjah —“We are People.” The Dilzhé spoke a language of the Athapaskan New World migrants who also populated regions far to the north. Only a few adventurers would leave their descendants to populate New Mexico and Arizona. These were the First Peoples of a world that Sharlot M. Hall would later help to protect. The A’bahhjah were bands of the Yavapai—the Kewevkapaya, the Tolkapaya, the Wipukapaya, the Nyavbiyah of Wiigahvdtehh (Granite Mountain), and the vanished Maht-quaddipaya. Their cousins were the Hàmakháv—”the water people”—as tall as giants. Along the vast abyss of the Grand Canyon came other relations—the Hualapai (the A’bahhjah of the Tall Pines) and the Havasupai (A’bahhjah of the Blue Green Water). And there were people who were unrelated to the A’bahhjah —a people of another tongue, the DilzhO, known to latecomers as the Apache.