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Description of Ancestral land
Description of Ancestral land
In the 1300s the mojave people land stretched from the Black Canyon to the Picacho Mountains. The Mojave people lived near the Colorado river. The Mojave people lived in the desert. The mojave people's land was very hot and dry. A few animals that still live in the mojave desert today are the : desert tortoise, roadrunner and the coyote.
Description of People
Description of People
Mojave ceremonies included the singing of cycles of dreamed songs that told stories. These usually retold a mythic or legendary journey. Some cycles consisted of hundreds of songs. The mojave believed in a supreme creator and attached great significance to dreams, which were considered the source of special powers.
common jobs in the mojave peoples tribes were Retail Trade (332 people), Manufacturing (169 people), and Other Services, Except Public Administration (150 people).
Legends & Stories
Legends & Stories
According to the Mohave, the first were the sky, a man, and the earth, a woman. These met
far in the west, and from them were born, first Matevilye, and after him his daughter the frog,
Mastamho who is usually called his younger brother, all the people, the animals, and plants.
Mastamho is a god of the earth, not the skies. Mastamho, the people, the animals and the plants all
went upward toward the east, under the leadership of Matevilye. Matevilye himself did not walk. He
merely moved four times, twice to the left and twice to the right. Thereby he arrived at Ahavulypo,
a narrow defile on the Colorado River. He stretched out his arms to the ends of the world and thereby
found this spot to be the center of the earth. for more of this story click here
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