Yavapai

American  

[yav-uh-pahy, yah-vuh-] / ˈjæv əˌpaɪ, ˈjɑ və- /

noun

• Yavapais,
  plural
• Yavapai
  plural

1. a member of a tribe of North American Indians who live in Arizona.

2. the Yuman language of the Yavapai.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Yavapai
  plural
• Yavapais
  plural

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Example Sentences

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Yavapai Yavapais

Marine Corps captain, was 30 years old when his plane crashed during a military training exercise on July 31, 1951, the Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office in Arizona said in a statement.

From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2024

“I call it a tourist trap because it’s really overcrowded,” said Gertrude Smith, Yavapai culture director for the Yavapai-Apache Nation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2023

The Yavapai County Sheriff’s Office said that Steven Jackson, 66, was drinking coffee in his yard near the Groom Creek area just south of Prescott when the male bear launched its surprise attack.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 18, 2023

He blamed conspiracy theories for scuttling the company’s chances of winning business in Yavapai County, a conservative rural county north of Phoenix.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

I have seen the mowing machine of the Americano cut the tall grass and leave all level––so the starved sheep of Yavapai swept across our mesa and left it bare.

From Hidden Water by Maynard Dixon

The tribes residing in the Territory of Arizona are the Pimas and Maricopas, Papagoes, Mohaves, Moquis, and Orivas Pueblos, Yumas, Yavapais, Hualapais, and different bands of the Apaches.

From The Indian Question (1874) by Francis Amasa Walker

He then asked where we were from and where we were going, and informed us that they were Yavapais on a hunting expedition.

From Captured by the Navajos by Charles A. (Charles Albert) Curtis

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