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A member of a North American Indian people of Cataract Canyon (a tributary of the Grand Canyon) in Arizona
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havasupai
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Havasupai may refer to: Havasupai dialect , a dialect of the Upland Yuman language spoken by fewer than 450 people on the Havasupai Indian Reservation at the bottom of the Grand Canyon Havasupai people , an American Indian tribe that has called the Grand ...
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Billy and I are looking for the diamond man along the river, I thought you might be mingling among the old folks in the Havasupai settlement.
It had been a long conversation, starting with her report on her interview with the old lady at the Havasupai settlement.
From what she told me, he was living on a sort of part-time basis with a Havasupai woman.
Sort of like the Havasupai version of how a shaman had forced the Grand Canyon cliffs to stop clapping themselves together to kill people by walking across the river with a tree log on his head.
He had been living with the Havasupai Indians in Arizona, he said, and he planned to return immediately and to remain forever.
He left school just like that and went to live with the Havasupai Indians.
I was headed for the Grand Canyon to learn the ways of the Havasupai Indians.
Fifteen kilometers down the trail they came to the Havasupai Indian settlement.
Major Powell ascertained that these cavate lodges were occupied by the Havasupai Indians now living in Cataract canyon, who are closely related to the Walapai, and who, it is said, were driven from this region by the Spaniards.
San Francisco mountain region have been assigned to the Havasupai Indians of the Yuman stock, and those of the Rio Grande to the Santa Clara pueblo Indians of the Tanoan stock, it may be of interest to state that there is a vague tradition extant among the modern settlers of the Verde region that the cavate lodges of that region were occupied within the last three generations.
Most of the baskets used by the Navaho in their ceremonies, however, are purchased from neighboring tribes, especially the Havasupai and the Paiute, who weave them primarily for purposes of trade.