The Mojave Indians relied mostly on plants for their food needs, but did hunt game with bows and arrows. The wood for these hunting tools came from the Honey Mesquite trees. Nets and quail traps were made from fibers taken from the Joshua tree.

Where did the Mojave tribe live?

• They mainly lived in the American states of California and Arizona along the Colorado River.
• Land: Arid but with rivers.
• Climate: Mild temperate climate.
• Land Animals: Rabbits, squirrels, quail and chipmunks,
• Natural Resources: Mushrooms, roots, acorns, nuts and grasses, seaweed.

Mojave Indian General Facts They did not make canoes like other tribes; instead they used rafts and poles to travel to different fishing spots. They utilized nets and baskets to catch the fish.

The Mohave people lived along the lower Colorado River in present-day Arizona and California. The Mohave farmed the lower Colorado River basin for 800 years. Their major crops included corn, melons, pumpkins, beans, and various roots. They did not irrigate their crops and their plantings often failed.

In the Mojave Road Guide the spelling “Mojave” is used for everything on the California side of the Colorado River. The county by that name in Arizona is officially spelled “Mohave” so if any reference to it was made, the “h” would be used, but otherwise the “j” is used except in direct quotations.

Mojave, also spelled Mohave, Yuman-speaking North American Indian farmers of the Mojave Desert who traditionally resided along the lower Colorado River in what are now the U.S. states of Arizona and California and in Mexico.

The Mojave Desert’s current resident populations of Mojave and Chemehuevi Indians, collectively numbering less than 2,000, live on reservations in California, Nevada, and Arizona. Today many local tribes are united as the Colorado River Indian Tribes and the Colorado River Native Nations Alliance.

Mohave Indian Language (Mojave) Mojave is a Yuman language of the American Southwest, considered by some linguists to be a member of the larger Hokan language family. It is spoken by around 200 people in California and Arizona.

The name [Mojave] is composed of two Indian words, aha, water, and macave, along or beside. Mojaves translate the idiom “along or beside the water,” or freely as “people who live along the water (river).”

The Mojave Desert is famous for having the hottest air temperature and surface temperature recorded on earth and the lowest elevation in North America. Badwater Basin, located in Death Valley, is the lowest elevation in the United States.

Nowadays there are over one million people living in the Mojave Desert and even more live around it. One of the most important industry’s in the Mojave Desert is actually the tourism.

But they did have dolls, toys, and games to play. Mojave people were known as excellent swimmers and runners, and Mojave kids liked to swim in the rivers and compete at footraces.

Why is it called Death Valley? Death Valley was given its forbidding name by a group of pioneers lost here in the winter of 1849-1850. Even though, as far as we know, only one of the group died here, they all assumed that this valley would be their grave.