In Mojave tradition, from the union of earth and sky was born the Great Spirit Matavilya, and after he was killed by his sister Frog Woman, his little brother Mastamho took charge of the world of the people, teaching them how to live when there were only people and no animals, birds, or fish. Mastamho drew out the water that became the Colorado River, brought fish and ducks with it, made the mountains from the riverbanks' mud, planted melon, corn, pumpkin, and bean seeds in the overflow, taught the people to make fire and shade, to count, to understand the four directions, and to make pottery vessels, and he made the animals, insects, and birds and gave names to all things. He gave the people the river and everything along it, and they were the Aha Macave, the Mojave, the people who live along the water. For the Aha Macave, the river was the center of existence, and they practiced dry farming based on the Colorado River's regular overflow, supplemented by wild seeds and roots, especially mesquite beans, along with game and fish taken with traps and nets. The Mojave protected their land, traveled to the Pacific Coast as traders exchanging surplus crops for valued goods such as shells, made pottery from sedimentary clay and crushed sandstone, practiced facial tattooing with lines and dots, and cremated their dead with property and belongings placed on funeral pyres while the names of the dead were never spoken again. Early contact with white newcomers was sometimes friendly and sometimes deadly, driven by the search for fortune: New Mexico Governor Don Juan Onate passed through Mojave territory in 1604 searching for silver, Fray Francisco Garces became the first white man to meet the Mojave in December 1775 and found them friendly, and American mountain men led by Jedediah Smith entered Mojave territory in 1826, though later encounters brought violence. In 1911 an Executive Order granted the Fort Mojaves a reservation of the old military reserve, the Hay and Wood Reserves on the California and Nevada side of the Colorado River, and adjacent checkerboard land on the Arizona side totaling 32,000 acres; the Boarding School closed in 1931, and in 1957 approval of the Fort Mojave Tribal Constitution created a seven member Tribal Council and changed the traditional leadership structure forever.