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Today we had our first in person Yavapai language class since COVID.
Thank you Sister Clissene and Donna from the Fort McDowell Museum & Culture Center

Yavapai App created by Fort McDowell Museum & Culture Center

Fort McDowell Museum & Culture Center

Turn up the volume and listen to our amazing Kindergarten
A creative way to count syllable, add in a Yavapai lesson of animal names and some large motor skills Fort McDowell Museum & Culture Center

Guess what time it is Fort McDowell families...
listen in to Ms. Lewis Kindergarten class practice their November words. Thank you Fort McDowell Museum & Culture Center for our monthly videos

🔊🔊Volume Up and listen to Ms. Lewis and Ms. Komas class.

Can You ? ...."Name That Yavapai Tune"

*Name That Tune premiered on the NBC Radio Network in 1952
Fort McDowell Museum & Culture Center

“You’re off to great places, today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.”
Dr. Seuss
Fort McDowell Museum & Culture Center teaching Preschool October words and some ZooPhonics dancing.

Listen in as Mrs. Rodriguez Preschool classes practices Yavapai introductions with Fort McDowell Museum & Culture Center .

Stay healthy and get vaccinated!

Video credit: Fort McDowell Museum & Culture Center

Dr. Rosemarie Kennaley of WMHC answers some frequently asked questions surrounding COVID-19 vaccines.

Special thanks to the Fort McDowell Museum & Culture Center for the collaboration!

Way-Po-Ka-Rah, Apache-Mojave (Yavapai) chief.
Pachine; Poulthywcadedappa, Whitish Spots on His Forehead, the chief of the Mojave G band (from The Only One Living to Tell: The Autobiography of a Yavapai by Mike Burns).

‘Pawchine and Sygollah headed Kwevkepayas who had moved to San Carlos after surrending at Camp Grant’ (from Surviving Conquest: A History of the Yavapai Peoples by Timothy Braatz,
page 192).

Dr. Rosemarie Kennaley, Acting Director of the Wassaja Memorial Health Center talks about the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday.

Special thanks to the Fort McDowell Museum & Culture Center for the collaboration!

Yavapai Indian -- Yuma Bill. Same man? Photos by Henry Buehman. 1880s.

Yavapai Nikwida known as Mike Nelson (left); Pagase (centre); Kala known as Dwight Campbell (right). Fort McDowell Reservation. 1911

Portrait of an elderly Yavapai man (named Huakwátha), sitting on the ground, wearing a 'buckskin cap adorned with split owl-feathers, & shirt-buttons, as formerly worn by doctors [1911]' (handwritten caption). Arizona, McDowell Reservation,
Pitt Rivers Museum. And his buckskin cap.

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Operating as usual

07/20/2022

06/13/2022

Good morning everyone! If u missed our flyer a couple weeks ago, we will be starting a daily Yavapai language summer program. Please join us!

Join us this summer as we provide a daily Summer Language Class for all ages! For more info contact the FMYN Culture Dept.

06/04/2022

06/04/2022

Today is the day! If you signed up and confirmed we are starting at 10am at the FMYN Senior Center!

05/31/2022

Join us this summer as we provide a daily Summer Language Class for all ages! For more info contact the FMYN Culture Dept.

05/19/2022

We are having a Camp Dress Making Class! We will have 5 sewing machines available for use. Please contact the Culture Dept for sign up’s and if you have any questions.

We are currently taking adults 18 & over at this time.

Thank you
FMYN Culture Dept

05/10/2022

Join us today! 11am at the Rec Center! We will be serving lunch!

04/27/2022

Come on out to the museum and join us for Community Culture Night for the Youth at the Museum, starting at 5pm to 630pm.

04/26/2022

Don’t forget tonight, the Culture Dept is having a Community Culture Night for the Youth! Come check us out! If your unable to make it tonight plan for tomorrow night! Lite dinner to be served.

03/30/2022

Join us virtually in April!

For the month of April Healthy Futures and the Cultural Department will be hosting a walk/run challenge. The challenge will be In Honor of Trail of Tears. The goal is to reach 386 miles as a group! We will be giving out visors (while supplies last) to participants and we will also be having a luncheon at the end of the challenge. Call Marissa Pattea to sign up or if you have any questions 480-789-7808.

Andrew Gonzales, CSCS, ACSM-EP, USAW- Coach, CF-L2 Trainer
Physical Fitness Specialist
Wassaja Memorial Health Center
Fort McDowell Yavapai Nation

03/29/2022

Don’t forget! Yavapai Language Class tomorrow March 30, 2022 at FMYN Rec Center at 11am!

03/24/2022

03/23/2022

Sorry for the long delay but we hope you can join us today at 11am! We are back to in person Yavapai language classes! If you have any questions, please contact the Culture Dept at 480-789-7190 or 480-789-7191

Thank you
FMYN Culture Dept

02/28/2022

21st Century Native Americans

"In its May 1977 issue, National Audubon Society AUDUBON magazine, had published a lengthy article by Dennis Hanson, "Pumping Billions Into the Desert: The Case Against the Central Arizona Project." The proposed Orme Dam was a major structure of the CAP and required relocation of the Fort McDowell Reservation tribe.

The AUDUBON article included interviews with several Fort McDowell Indian people and they gave their side of the story.

Afterwards, in its July 1977 issue, AUDUBON published a letter-to-the-editor written by Arizona's powerful U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater, which read in part: "They (the Yavapais) are very nice people, very sweet people, but they are very lazy people, and somebody has changed their minds."

The July 23rd, 1977, Phoenix, Arizona, ABC-TV program was the Yavapais' response to the senator.

The TV host is Roy Track and his regular Sunday TV program, "21st Century Native Americans." Fort McDowell Reservation Tribal President Hiawatha Hood responds for his people. Also appearing: tribal member Dixie Lee Davis, anthropologist Dr. Sigrid Khera, and Carolina C. Butler, all representing the Committee to Save Fort McDowell.

Later, in the September 1977 issue, AUDUBON published a letter-to-the-editor from Charles E. Trimble, Executive Director of the National Congress for American Indians, directing his words at Senator Barry Goldwater saying in part, "We (Indians) are no lazy, but concerned and informed.""

Letter written by Carolina Butler about the TV program.

Photos from Fort McDowell Museum & Culture Center's post

02/23/2022

We found it! We now have the full 30 minute ABC-TV program "21st Century Native Americans," hosted by Roy Track where then Fort McDowell Tribal President Hiawatha Hood appears with Dixie Lee Davis, anthropologist Dr. Sigrid Khera, and Carolina Butler who respond to Arizona's powerful U.S. Senator Barry Goldwater and his published response in the July 1977 issue of AUDUBON where he referred to the Fort McDowell Yavapai people as "lazy."

The real question is: would anybody be interested in seeing it? Let us know! 😁

02/23/2022

Unfortunately there will be NO Yavapai Language Class today. Apologies for the inconvenience. We'll see you next week! 😄

02/22/2022

The Coconino and Prescott National Forests are searching for two ( 2 ) interns will work for eight ( 8 ) weeks with Forest Service managers and academic partners. Interns will participate in the daily operations of National Forest personnel. Additionally, interns will assist with the Verde River Basin Wilderness and Wild and Scenic River (WSR) hydrologic and ecology projects.

Such work will enable the interns to work with fish biologists, aquatic entomologists, amphibian and riparian plant ecologists, hydrologists, and other Forest Service staff/partners involved in stewardship work on the Coconino, Tonto and Prescott National Forests. Duties will be mostly field bound, but note taking and computer work will be required.

Tent camping will be required.
Weekly stipend included.
Lodging available if required.
The Forest Service Needs You!

Summer Internship Available!

When: May 23 – July 15 (8 weeks)
Where: Prescott National Forest
Bradshaw Ranger District Office
344 South Cortez Street
Prescott, AZ

Who: Current college students or recent college graduates (2 positions available)

Send Resumes to:
Forest Service
C/O Joaquin Baca
333 Broadway Blvd SE
Albuquerque, NM 87102

or

[email protected]

For additional information please contact Danielle Carmon at [email protected]

02/16/2022

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Apologies for the delay! Here's the Zoom information for today's Yavapai language class on Zoom! 11:30am to 12pm!

https://us05web.zoom.us/j/84993515265?pwd=ZVB3NXJvbFhSZjlzNnk1STgyRWMxQT09

Meeting ID: 849 9351 5265
Passcode: T1n6pq

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02/09/2022

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Good morning! We will be hosting a Yavapai language meeting at 12pm today! Our fearless leader has gone up the ladder so, please bear with us as we figure out a new way to conduct the classes. Especially over Zoom! Thank you for your patience! 😁

Join Zoom Meeting
https://us05web.zoom.us/j/7380148967?pwd=cjh6UE4yYkNyWGljbEZQbFlTSEgydz09

Meeting ID: 738 014 8967
Passcode: RGDcB5

02/05/2022

If you're not busy on this beautiful Saturday, come visit us at the Arizona Indian Festival in Old Town Scottsdale! It goes until 5pm!

02/02/2022

Join our Cloud HD Video Meeting

Here's the Zoom info for the Yavapai Language Class! See you soon!!

Topic: Yavapai Language Class

Time: Feb 2, 2022 11:30 AM Arizona

Join Zoom Meeting

https://us05web.zoom.us/j/82856032119?pwd=SmlUYUtRU3JHTmt6Zkx5TWNWZWJsUT09

Meeting ID: 828 5603 2119
Passcode: s8jgQh

01/31/2022

We will be having a language class this Wednesday at noon on Zoom! More information will be coming soon! 🙂

01/19/2022

Due to the recent rise of COVID-19 cases, there will be NO Yavapai language classes for the remainder of January! Stay safe. Mask up.

01/15/2022

01/11/2022

The cultural center will be closed for the rest of the day. Sorry any inconvenience

We will resume business tomorrow 1/12/22.

Culture Dept.

01/04/2022

Due to high numbers of COVID-19, this week's and next week's Yavapai language class have been cancelled. Please be safe and continue your COVID-19 precautions. We apologize for the inconvenience!

12/28/2021

Good morning, we regret to inform you all that language class will be canceled again this week. We look forward to seeing you all next week!

In the mean time go over the materials we have used in the past weeks/months. Review review review!

If you need help with pronunciation or even want to stop by the culture building to go over language material please feel free to call or stop on by.

11/30/2021

Yavapai Language Class for Wednesday 12/1/2021 has been Canceled. We will resume Next Wednesday 12/8/2021. Sorry for the inconvenience.

- FMYN Culture Dept

11/17/2021

We will see you today at noon for language class at the gym! I hear we are having some burgers. So come on down for some FREE food and some language! 😁

11/16/2021

Rock Your Mocs 2021 Waffle Winners!

11/15/2021

Don't forget to Rock Your Mocs today! Come on by to get your picture taken and be entered into a raffle for all these prizes! Or email for the code word if you can't make it!

[email protected]

😁

11/15/2021

Native Cinema Showcase 2021

Check out these indigenous lead film streaming on the National Museum of American Indians website!

https://nmai.brand.live/c/native-cinema-showcase

Native Cinema Showcase 2021

11/12/2021

The Orme Dam - The Battle for Fort McDowell

On November 12th, we celebrate the Orme Dam Victory Days! Check out the documentary the Culture Department made that tells the tale of our victory over the construction of the Orme Dam!

https://youtu.be/tb_Ow8mGcuw

The Orme Dam - The Battle for Fort McDowell

11/11/2021

The Culture Department wishes the boss man a big happy birthday!

Yavape Addiyeh'gum Sawahla! 🌽

11/10/2021

The Culture Department wishes the Marine Corps a happy 246th year of service!

11/09/2021

We will be having our Yavapai Language Class tomorrow at noon at the gym! See you there! 😎

11/02/2021

Good news. Bad news.

Bad news is we are NOT having Yavapai language class this week.

Good news is we have our 2022 calendars down at the Cultural Center! You can pick up your FREE calendar starting today! So come on down! We have a limited supply so first come, first serve! 😁

10/27/2021

Apologies for the delay! We will NOT be having a Yavapai language class today. Sorry!

10/22/2021

People of the Sun - Part 1

People of the Sun is a documentary series that will delve into the history and culture of the Yavapai people of Fort McDowell! Part 1 is now available to watch! Part 2 is coming soon. Enjoy! :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKwRkXABGBU

People of the Sun - Part 1 People of the Sun is a documentary series that will delve into the history and culture of the Yavapai people who live in Fort McDowell, AZ.Part 2 coming soon...

10/20/2021

Due to the recent loss of two of our tribal members, we are canceling tomorrow's language class.

10/13/2021

We will see you today at noon for language class at the gym! Food will be served! 😎

10/05/2021

The Yavapai Language Class is on for tomorrow at 12pm! We'll see you at the gym! Lunch as always will be served! 😁

09/28/2021

Unfortunately there will be NO language class this week. We'll see you next Wednesday! 🙂

09/22/2021

We'll see you today at 12pm for Yavapai Language Class at the gym! 😁