Yavapai–Apache Nation

The Yavapai–Apache have lived in the American Southwest since 1100 CE. Their traditional ecological knowledge allowed them to flourish as hunter-gatherers. Chief Yuma Frank,{{Cite web |date=2018-03-02 |title=Yuma, Frank|website=Lower Verde Valley Hall of Fame |url=https://lowerverdevalleyhalloffame.org/yuma-frank/ |access-date=2024-06-29 |language=en-US}} Chief Viola Jimulla,{{Cite web |last=Star |first=Jan Cleere Special to the Arizona Daily |date=2019-03-17 |title=Western Women: Viola Jimulla was longtime chief of Yavapai tribe |url=https://tucson.com/news/local/western-women-viola-jimulla-was-longtime-chieftess-of-yavapai-tribe/article_95158816-a5a1-54b8-b69e-fb52eed2abfa.html |access-date=2024-06-29 |website=Arizona Daily Star |language=en}} and Carlos Montezuma{{Cite journal |last=Martinez |first=David |date=2013 |title=Carlos Montezuma's Fight against Bureauism |url=https://www.csusm.edu/ais/neh-bridgingthegap/neh-images-docs/carlos_montezumas_fight_against_bureauis.pdf |journal=Studies in American Indian Literatures |volume=25 |issue=2 |pages=323}} were some of the first leaders of the Yavapai–Apache Nation. Beginning in 1865, the Yavapai were relocated to several reservations: Colorado River, Fort McDowell, Rio Verde, San Carlos, Camp Verde, Middle Verde, Clarkdale, and Prescott.R.E.H. Rasmussen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=OJV2AAAAMAAJ American Indian Tribes] (Salem Press, 2000), pp. 561–62. {{ISBN|978-0893560638}}.

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The Yavapai–Apache government has three branches: Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary. The Executive branch consists of the Chairperson, Vice Chairperson, Council Secretary, and Council Treasurer, who oversees the administration of tribal business. The Legislative branch is the Tribal Council, which has nine members, including the Chairperson and the Vice Chairperson. The Council's powers include developing laws, codes, and ordinances and representing the Yavapai-Apache people in all matters concerning their health and welfare. The tribal membership elects the Council, which consists of the Chairperson, Vice Chairperson, and seven other Tribal Council members. The Judicial Branch consists of a Trible Court, a Court of Appeals, and other lower courts considered necessary by the Tribal Council. The judiciary interprets and applies the laws of the Nation and resolves legal matters.{{Cite web |title=Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation {{!}} Native American Advancement, Initiatives, and Research |url=https://naair.arizona.edu/yavapai-apache-nation |access-date=2024-06-29 |website=naair.arizona.edu |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Yavapai-Apache Nation: Executive Functions Excerpt {{!}} Native Nations Institute's Constitution Resource Center |url=https://nniconstitutions.arizona.edu/yavapai-apache-nation-executive-functions-excerpt |access-date=2024-06-29 |website=nniconstitutions.arizona.edu |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Yavapai-Apache Constitution |url=https://yavapai-apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/YAN-Constitution.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240113210259/https://yavapai-apache.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/YAN-Constitution.pdf |archive-date=January 13, 2024 |access-date=June 29, 2024 |website=The University of Arizona}}

In 2024, Tanya Lewis serves as the Chairwoman and Ricardo Pacheco is the Vice Chairman.

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The Yavapai–Apache Nation Indian Reservation, at {{coord|34|37|10|N|111|53|46|W|scale:50000}}, consists of five non-contiguous parcels of land located in three separate communities in eastern Yavapai County.{{Cite web |date=October 29, 2024 |title=US forest managers finalize land exchange with Native American tribe in Arizona |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/us-forest-managers-finalize-land-exchange-native-american-115285235 |access-date=2024-10-30 |website=ABC News |language=en |agency=Associated Press}} The two largest sections, {{convert|576|acre|ha}} together – almost 90 percent of the reservation's territory, are in the town of Camp Verde ({{langx|yuf-x-yav|ʼMatthi:wa}}; Western Apache: Gambúdih{{cite book |author=William J. de Reuse |title=A Practical Grammar of the San Carlos Apache Language |publisher=Lincom Europa |year=2006}}). Smaller sections are located in the town of Clarkdale {{convert|60.17|acre|ha}}, and the unincorporated community of Lake Montezuma ({{convert|5.8|acre|ha}}). The reservation's total land area is {{convert|642|acre|ha}}. The total resident population of the reservation was 743 persons as of the 2000 census. The 2010 Census reported 1,615 people on the reservation. Of these, 512 lived in Camp Verde, 218 in Clarkdale, and only 13 in Lake Montezuma.

• Camp Verde ({{langx|yuf-x-yav|ʼMatthi:wa}}; Western Apache: Gambúdih{{cite book|author=William J. de Reuse|title=A Practical Grammar of the San Carlos Apache Language|publisher=Lincom Europa|year=2006}})
• Clarkdale (Yavapai: SaupkasuivaE.W. Gifford, Northeastern and Western Yavapai, University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1936. Page 248, footnote 7. [http://www.ansac.az.gov/UserFiles/PDF/10132015/C028_SLD-AG%20Supplement%202/298%20-%20Gifford,%20Northeastern%20and%20Western%20Yavapai.pdf PDF copy], hosted by the Arizona Navigable Stream Adjudication Commission, retrieved 31 August 2017.)
• Lake Montezuma (Rimrock)

The Yavapai–Apache Nation operates the Cliff Castle Casino, a popular gaming, recreation, dining and lodging attraction in the Verde Valley.

The reservation is served by the Camp Verde Unified School District.

• Yavapai people
• Apache people
• Dilzhe'e Apache

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• [https://www.census.gov Yavapai–Apache Nation Reservation, Arizona] United States Census Bureau
• Rasmussen, R.E.H American Indian Tribes. Salem Press, 2000.

• [http://yavapai-apache.org/ Yavapai–Apache Nation], official website
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20030819172738/http://www.itcaonline.com/tribes_campverd.html Yavapai–Apache Nation], Arizona Intertribal Council
• [http://www.cliffcastlecasinohotel.com/ Cliff Castle casino and hotel]

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