Cliff Castle Casino-Hotel is owned and operated by the Yavapai-
Apache Nation, a federally recognized Tribe. The modern Yavapai-
Apache Nation is an amalgamation of two distinct cultures that
have inhabited the Verde Valley and surrounding country for
countless centuries prior to the American conquest of the
Southwest. The Yavapai are Yuman-speaking people related to
Hualapai, Supai and other tribes southwards along the Colorado
River. The Dilzhe'e Apache are Athapaskan-speaking people
related linguistically to the Navajo to the north. The members
of these tribes who survived the wars and diseases of the 19th
century were officially merged under the Indian Reorganization
Act of 1934 into the Yavapai-Apache Tribe, which became the
Yavapai-Apache Nation in 1992. The ancestors of both the Yavapai
and Dilzhe'e Apache were hunting and gathering people who lived
with a light foot and silent hand on the landscape, leaving
barely a physical trace in the record for archaeologists to
study. Ancestors of the Yavapai-Apach