Aha macav

Aha Macav is the homeland of the Mojave people along the Colorado River. Their territory stretched from Black Canyon south past the Mojave Valley, where settlements and fields occupied the river’s floodplain. The river also figures in Mojave accounts of creation, as the source of water, fish and waterfowl in a desert landscape. In 1604–1605 Juan de Oñate’s expedition travelled through the lower Colorado country. A century and a half later, the Franciscan Francisco Garcés visited the Mojave in 1775, encountering communities whose lives and relationships were rooted in the river valley.