Editing Mohave people (section)

==Population==
[[File:Milwaukee Public Museum April 2023 039 (Land of Sun- The Southwest--Cremating the Dead, Mojave Indians, Southern California).jpg|thumb|The ''Cremating the Dead, Mojave Indians, Southern California'' diorama at the [[Milwaukee Public Museum]]]]

Estimates of the pre-contact populations of most native groups in California have varied substantially. [[Alfred L. Kroeber]] (1925:883) put the 1770 population of the Mohave at 3,000 and [[Francisco Garcés]], a [[Franciscan]] missionary-explorer, also estimated the population at 3,000 in 1776 (Garcés 1900(2):450).

[[A.L. Kroeber]] estimate of the population in 1910 was 1,050.<ref>Kroeber, A. L. 1925. ''Handbook of the Indians of California''. ''[[Smithsonian Institution|Bureau of American Ethnology]] Bulletin'' No. 78. Washington, D.C.</ref> By 1963 Lorraine M. Sherer's research revealed the population had shrunk to approximately 988, with 438 at Fort Mojave and 550 at the Colorado River Reservation.<ref>Sherer 1965</ref>