Editing Mohave people (section)

==Culture==
[[File:Doll, Mohave, acquired in 1912 - Native American collection - Peabody Museum, Harvard University - DSC05514.JPG|thumb|Mohave ceramic figurine with red slip and earrings, pre-1912, [[Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology]]]]
In the 1930s, [[George Devereux]], a Hungarian-French anthropologist, did fieldwork and lived among the Mohave for an extended period of study. He published extensively about their culture and incorporated psychoanalytic thinking in his interpretation of their culture.

===Language===
The [[Mojave language]] belongs to the [[River Yuman]] branch of the [[Yuman languages|Yuman]] language family. In 1994 approximately 75 people in total on the Colorado River and Fort Mojave reservations spoke the language, according to linguist [[Leanne Hinton]]. The tribe has published language materials, and there are new efforts to teach the language to their children.<ref name=ethno>[http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=mov "Mohave."] ''Ethnologue.'' Retrieved April 11, 2012.</ref>

===Religion===
The Mohave creator is ''Matevilya,'' who gave the people their names and their commandments. His son is ''[[Mastamho]],'' who gave them the River and taught them how to plant. Historically this was an agrarian culture; they planted in the fertile floodplain of the untamed river, following the age-old customs of the Aha cave. They have traditionally used the indigenous plant [[Datura]] as a deliriant [[hallucinogen]] in a religious sacrament. A Mohave who is coming of age must consume the plant in a rite of passage, in order to enter a new [[state of consciousness]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.angelfire.com/indie/anna_jones1/datura.html|title=Sacred Datura|website=[[Angelfire]]|access-date=April 27, 2020}}</ref>{{Better source needed|date=June 2023}}