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Yavapai-Apache Nation
Yavapai & Apache Culture |
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The People --
Two distinct Tribal people: the Northwest Yavape' people (Yavapai) and Dilzhe’e (Tonto Apache) people of the Verde Valley share a dual history and culture, as well as a common community and political organization. Yet, the two cultures still remain distinct, with separate identities and histories stretching independently into a deep and cloudy past.
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Apache Culture
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Mission Statement
The Yavapai-Apache Nation’s Sovereignty is dependent on its cultural, religious, governmental, judicial systems and the practice of it’s own way of life-- independent of the greater American society. This uniqueness has to be preserved, recorded, taught, and supported by the Yavapai-Apache Nation’s government. Dilzi'e'e Culture Department is dedicated to preserve and continue this way of life that God instructed our People to live.
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Language & Culture Classes
Apache culture and identity is intrinsically tied to the language. The department works to preserve and revitalize the Apache language. Lessons of the Apache language are available at various times to both children and adults.
Along with language classes other traditional tasks are taught. Classes in sewing, basketry, toolmaking, firemaking, and traditional lifeways are available on a seasonal basis.
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Lifeways
During the year field trips are available to youth and adults, both Yavapai and Apache, to teach ways of living off the land, gathering traditional foods and medicines, such as mesquite, sahuaro fruit, acorns, red berries, agave, and herbs. Other trips are for visiting places of traditional importance to tribal peoples and learning of traditional lifeways, and some are just for fun.
The Apache culture department strives to maintain the cultural protocols that hold the Apache world in perspective and keep the Apache philosophy intact. They teach the proper ways of blessings, handling of feathers, conducting sweats, and use of song and dance.
Elders, community members, and language experts conduct weekly study groups to identify and clarify clan membership, study plants and language relationships, compose and refine the Apache dictionary.
Advocacy
Apache Culture, community members and the elders advisory board work tirelessly to make this world a better place: protecting the ecological balance of their homeland, advocating for water rights, maintaining endangered species rights for the desert bald eagle, and repatriation of sacred artifacts through NAGPRA.
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Apache Culture
Vincent Randall, Apache Culture Manager
2400 West Datsi Street
Camp Verde, AZ 86322
928-649-6960 |
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Yavapai Culture |
People of the Sun “Nya vabeh”
The mission of the Yavapai Culture Department is to create and tailor a research core for community access to acquire the Yavapai language for future generations to have preservation of language and sovereignty.
The program involves those responsive to the stewardship of the Yavapai cultural heritage, the restoration of traditional arts, history, song, and stories of the Nya vabeh, and consultation and protection of the sacred lands and cultural property.
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Yavapai Culture Program
The Yavapai Program Manager works in the Yavapai Apache Nations cultural building; organizes classes for language, beading, basketry, traditional dancing, traditional singing, and other cultural activities that take place within the culture building or where otherwise designated. The program employs the professional services of local tribal members as language teachers, crafts and dance instructors. The elders of this nation are our greatest resources and assets. |
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Language & History Studies
Indigenous culture is intrinsically tied to the language. Lessons of the Yavapai language are available at various times to both children and adults. Language learning tools are continually being created and distributed.
Studies by elders of Apache Clans and Yavapai Bands. Other language studies cover words for sky, plants and animals. Such studies are maintained in the Cultural Resource Center library, in audio format and/or video format.
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Lifeways
During the year field trips are available to youth and adults, Yavapai and Apache, to teach ways of living off the land, gathering traditional foods and medicines, such as mesquite, sahuaro fruit, acorns, red berries, agave, and herbs.
Other trips are for visiting places of importance to tribal peoples, and some are just for fun.
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Yavapai Culture
Delores Plunkett, Yavapai Culture Manager
2400 West Datsi Street
Camp Verde, AZ 86322
928-649-6963 |
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