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The Havasupai people (Havasupai: Havsuw’ Baaja) are an American Indian tribe who have lived in the Grand Canyon for at least the past 800 years. Havasu means “blue-green water” and pai “people”.
Located primarily in an area known as Cataract Canyon, this Yuman-speaking population once laid claim to an area the size of Delaware . In 1882, however, the tribe was forced by the federal government to abandon all but of its land. A silver rush and the Santa Fe Railroad in effect destroyed the fertile land. Furthermore, the inception of the Grand Canyon as a national park in 1919 pushed the Havasupai to the brink, as their land was consistently being used by the National Park Service. Throughout the 20th century, the tribe used the US judicial system to fight for the restoration of the land. In 1975, the tribe succeeded in regaining approximately of their ancestral land with the passage of the Grand Canyon National Park Enlargement Act.
As a means of survival, the tribe has turned to tourism, attracting thousands of people annually to its streams and waterfalls.
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 Canyon its home for at least the past 800 years
- Havasupai Trail, the main trail to Supai, Arizona and to Havasu Falls
- Havasupai–Hualapai language, the Native American language spoken by the Hualapai (Walapai) and Havasupai peoples
Usage examples of "havasupai".
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.