The Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation calls Central Arizona’s upper Sonoran Desert home. Located to the northeast of Phoenix within Maricopa County, Arizona, the 40-square mile reservation is a small part of the ancestral territory of the once nomadic Yavapai people, who hunted and gathered food in a vast area of Arizona’s desert lowlands and mountainous Mogollon Rim country.
Official Tribal Name: Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation
Physical Address: 17661 E. Yavapai Road, Fort McDowell, AZ 85264
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 17779, Fountain Hills, AZ 85269
Phone: 480-837-5121
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Official Website: http://www.fmyn.org/
Recogniton Status: Federally Recognized
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Common Name: Yavapai
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Formerly Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Community of the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation, Mohave, Apache, Mohave-Apache
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Region: Southwest
State(s) Today: Arizona
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Reservation: Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation Reservation
Created by Executive Order on September 15, 1903. The reservation is a small parcel of land that was formerly the ancestral territory of the once nomadic Yavapai people.
Land Area: 40-square mile
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About 900.
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Related Tribes
- Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
- Aravaipa Apache – See San Carlos Apache Tribe
- Bedonkohe – (Chiricahua Apache Band name)
- Chiricahua – (Also See San Carlos Apache Tribe, White Mountain Apache Tribe, and Fort Sill Apache Tribe)
- Choctaw-Apache of Ebarb
- Fort McDowell Mohave-Apache Community of the Fort McDowell Indian Reservation
- Fort Sill Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
- Jicarilla Apache Nation
- Kiowa-Apache – (Also see Apache Tribe of Oklahoma.)
- Mescalero Apache Tribe of the Mescalero Reservation
- Lipan Apache
- San Carlos Apache Tribe of the San Carlos Reservation
- Tonto Apache Tribe of Arizona (Western Apache)
- White Mountain Apache Tribe of the Fort Apache Reservation
- Yavapai-Apache Nation of the Camp Verde Indian Reservation
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