Chemehuevi

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The Chemehuevi are a Native American people of the Southern Paiute branch traditionally inhabiting areas of the Mojave Desert and lower Colorado River region.


Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Native American people
Southern Paiute people
Uto-Aztecan language
ethnographer
federally recognized tribe
affectedBy construction of dams on the Colorado River
autonym Nuwu
surface form: Nüwü

Nüwü (or Nuwuvi)
surface form: Nüwüwü
contemporaryReligion Christianity
country United States of America
surface form: United States
culturalPractices basketry
oral tradition
storytelling
culturalRegion California, United States
surface form: California

Great Basin
Southwest
ethnicGroupOf United States of America
surface form: United States
federallyRecognizedTribe Chemehuevi Indian Tribe of the Chemehuevi Reservation
historicalLifestyle semi-nomadic
language Chemehuevi language
linguisticFamily Uto-Aztecan
notableScholarshipOn Carobeth Laird
populationCenter Chemehuevi Reservation
surface form: Chemehuevi Indian Reservation

Colorado River Indian Tribes Reservation
surface form: Colorado River Indian Reservation

Las Vegas area
relatedEthnicGroup Hopi people
surface form: Hopi

Kawaiisu
Mohave
Southern Paiute people
surface form: Southern Paiute

Ute people
surface form: Ute
reservationLocation Lake Havasu area
San Bernardino County, California NERFINISHED
studied Chemehuevi self-linksurface differs
subfamilyOf Numic languages
subgroupOf Southern Paiute people
surface form: Southern Paiute
traditionalHousing brush shelters
wickiups
traditionalReligion Native American traditional religion
traditionalSubsistence fishing
gathering
hunting
small-scale agriculture
traditionalTerritory Mojave Desert
eastern California
lower Colorado River region
southern Nevada
western Arizona
treatyHistory subject to 19th-century U.S. federal Indian policy

Referenced by (15)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

subject surface form: Carobeth Laird
Nüwü (or Nuwuvi) hasExonym Chemehuevi
subject surface form: Nüwü
Southern Numic hasPart Chemehuevi
this entity surface form: Ute-Chemehuevi
Southern Numic hasPart Chemehuevi
Uto-Aztecan includesLanguage Chemehuevi
subject surface form: Carobeth Laird
this entity surface form: The Chemehuevis
Serrano relatedEthnicGroup Chemehuevi
subject surface form: Nuwuvi
subject surface form: Nüwü
Chemehuevi studied Chemehuevi self-linksurface differs
subject surface form: Carobeth Laird
CRIT tribalEnrollmentIncludes Chemehuevi