Oral History of the Yavapai

by Mike Harrison and John Williams

Book Overview

In the 1970s, the Fort McDowell Reservation in Arizona came under threat by a dam construction project that, if approved, would potentially flood most of its 24,680 acres of land. As part of the effort to preserve the reservation, Mike Harrison and John Williams, two elders of the Yavapai tribe, sought to have their history recorded as they themselves knew it, as it had been passed down to them from generation to generation, so that the history of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816532540
• ISBN13: 9780816532544
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: University of Arizona Press
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"