Time Immemorial - 1300 A.D. : The Yavapai Tribe is formed. (1 ene 1 año – 31 dic 1300 año)

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Before becoming known as the Yavapai tribe, members were originally part of a much larger group of Native American cultures. The Patayan people, who resided in modern-day Arizona, California, Southern Nevada, and Baja California were floodwater farmers, hunter-gatherers, and fishers. Descendants of Patayans include the Yavapai, Hualapai, and Havasupai people. At an estimated date of 1300 A.D., individuals split from Patayan groups and formed the Yavapai tribe in central Arizona. The word Yavapai directly translates to "People of the Sun".

The creation story of the Yavapai people has been passed down orally for generations. The story states that in the beginning, all of the Yavapai people lived in "Ahagaskiaywa", which is known today as "Montezuma's Well".

"We come from Sedona, the middle of the world. This is our home. Long time ago, there was no water in that lake. People were living down there. And one chief, the one who is around the world first is down there…He did something wrong to the own daughter. He did that four times. So the daughter got mad. “I am going to the river down there.” There was a river running and there was a log across it. He goes there every morning. There is a real big frog down the river…And the frog said to the girl, “What are you thinking? You are thinking pretty bad. You want to do bad to your father. I help you. In the morning the father goes over there to the water. Then you turn in me…Then he dies.”

"And she did. The daughter turned into a frog and goes under the water…The old man got sick. He got sick and nobody can do anything…He knows he is going to die and he knows a flood is coming. The daughter got mad and make the father sick and she wants to kill all the people…The old man wants the people to get out…”When I go, burn me right away.”...After a while when everything is gone, the people say, “The chief said, ‘If I go, you burn me up. And when everything is gone, you put a little dirt right there at my heart.’ Well, that's what he wanted us to do. So we are going to do it and we will wait and see.” They put some dirt in there where the heart should be and pile it.”

"Corn come up. Come up, come up, come up, up to the top. Real big corn. It grows up to this side of the well. Finally one man go up that corn and check it. He sees this is a good world up there. “There is another world up there, so we can go up there.””

"After some time there come another flood. The second time when the world gets flooded, it is just rain water. People do something wrong, and the rain comes…They made room enough to put lots of food stuff in there--some kinds of seeds; jerky meat. But she can't make fire in there. She has to eat the food raw…They told her: 'The flood will raise you. You will hit the sky. But just lay still. If you lay still, you will get out in the end.'”

"So she lay still in there all the time. The girl lay in there 40 days and 40 nights.The water went down. The girl had a dove with her, and she sent the dove out...and the dove came down with a little weed. So the water was gone. The log had landed on "the highest place...in Sedona…There the girl came out from the log. We call her Kamalapukwia. That means 'Old Lady White Stone. (Kamalapukwia) is the first woman on earth...and we come from her. She came out at Sedona and that's where all the Indians come from." (Oral History of the Yavapai).


Image 1: Yavapai ancestral painting
Image 2: Map of the dispersal of Patayan people
Image 3: Ahagaskiaywa ("Montezuma's Well")
Image 4: Yavapai Ancestral painting inside Wipuk (Sedona) cave.

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