The Estrella Mountains or The Sierra Estrella is a mountain range located southwest of Phoenix, Arizona. Much of the range falls within the Gila River Indian Reservation, but 14,400 acres of BLM land
Quartz Peak in 2014
Estrella Mountains from Laveen, January 2004. Hayes Peak is on the right.
Fire in the Gila River Valley, southwest of Phoenix, (Rainbow Valley over peaks of Sierra Estrella)
The Yavapai are a Native American tribe in Arizona. Their Yavapai language belongs to the Upland Yuman branch of the proposed Hokan language family.
An early 20th-century Yavapai basket bowl woven of willow and reed
Yavapai-Apache Nation former Chairman Jon Huey and current Chairwoman Tanya Lewis (then Vice Chairwoman) meeting with Rep. Tom O'Halleran (AZ) and colleague, 2020
Photograph of three young Yavapai men by A. Miller, National Anthropological Archives
A drawing from 1851 of Yavapai people made by Sitgreaves' first topographical mission across Arizona