olive oatman was a great swimmer comanche learned that from the mojavs. --mojaves. mojaves.en she is rescued and believe that she did not want to be free, because you probably had two children, so she is kidnapped again, and as my web said, she lost to mothers. she lost her mother who was killed in the initial attack. she lost her mother here at needles and is raising to joining -- two children by the .hief's son you do know that the colorado river is totally unlike what it is now. it is a bathtub now. but in those days, it rain between the rocks, which would be where the parker dam is, and there is no variation there, but when it got out on the flats vetween there and the moja foully, the river would literally change course overnight. so the steamboat captains would come up one way and get out and his allies and all the submit would come up into a cul-de-sac where the river would channel 55 yards over the ugly, so they would have to get out and put these hooks in the ground and pushed backwards. and they said that these captains could captain those boats on two inches of wa

that's a mojave.to pull her hair back and show skin behind her ear to the prove to him that she was a white woman. that's how assimilated she was after four years with the mojaves. her brother, lorenzo, took the first stage from southern california and came out and met her, and they went into a room and sat for an hour and stared at each other because they couldn't talk. she had, her transformation was that profound. she had assimilated herself into being a mojave. now, here's the part, here's the part that i think is the smoking gun to the this controversy -- to this controversy, and that is they traveled by stage to monty, california, which is today, i believe, el monte, california. and there was a hotel there. and susan thompson, you know, the one who i said said it was a perpetual picnic? that was her hotel. and they spent two weeks there, and she wrote in the 1960s, she was an old woman, she wrote that we could not erase the wild from her heart. her wildness shook us, it shook your belief in civi

this is a display we have about the mojave's, up the river, north of us. they were generally on the arizona side of the river. but they were back and forth across the river, too. across the river right now are they calledvy -- the special people. we have displays of some of the things that they used, the native plants and animals. the skills they had. is, they usedting the stuff that was here, the natural materials. they wove baskets. they made pots. they use the grinding stones that we are all familiar with. they used different plants that were available. this basket is an example. they have light weaving, they have the dark. how did they get the dark? was it painted? was it painted? no, they use native plants. we have an example here. it's called devils claw. you don't want to get this in your socks. they would soak this in water and it would become pliable. they would use that for the dark parts of the weaving. one of the things we like to point out to visitors to the museum, this area has been explored by europeans starting ,ven before the eastern stat

display we've about the mojaves who are up the river us.h of they were generally on the .rizona side of the river but they were back and forth too.ss the river, across the river right now are folks, that is the spanish name. thecan see they called them special people. displays of some of the things they used, the native animals and the skills they had. interesting is they used the stuff that was here, the materials. pots.ove baskets, made grinding stones we are familiar w. they used the different plants available. example.ket is an they have the light weaving but they have the dark. how did they get the dark? what makes the dark? was it painted? no, they used native plants and an example here called devil's claw. you don't want to get there in our socks but they would soak it and it would be used for the dark parts of the weaving. one thing away like to point out to visitors is that this area by europeans red starting even before the eastern stat states' first colonies. of jamestown as beginning of the united states. that was 1607. a spanish sho explorer came from mexico and this are