The Question of Regional Bands and Subtribes Among the Pre-Conquest Pai (Hualapai and Havasupai) Indians of Northwestern Arizona.

Prior to the 1860s Upland Yumans occupied northwest and north-central Arizona. The scattered bands of Yuman-speaking Indians were conventionally made up of Hualapai, Havasupai and Yavapai Yumans. Two profoundly different arguments are explored concerning the socio-political structures for the Hualapai, Havasupai and Yavapai groups prior to 1860 are explored.

Before 1860, scattered bands of Yuman-speaking Indians, conventionally grouped by scholars under the names Hualapai, Havasupai, and Yavapai, occupied a large area in what has become northwest and north-central Arizona. Anthropologists ...

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