Havasupai

American  

[hah-vuh-soo-pahy] / ˌhɑ vəˈsu paɪ /

noun

• Havasupais,
  plural
• Havasupai
  plural

1. a member of a small tribe of nomadic North American Indians now living in Arizona.

2. the Yuman language of the Havasupai.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• Havasupai
  plural
• Havasupais
  plural

Example Sentences

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Havasupai Havasupais

In 1882, the Havasupai people were removed from the Grand Canyon plateau, which they had inhabited for centuries.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2025

In a 2022 letter of opposition, the Havasupai Tribal Council, laid out what is at stake in the uranium mining controversy.

From Salon ● Jan. 31, 2024

It was another big step for the Havasupai, and for the 10 other tribes that consider the Grand Canyon their ancestral homeland.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023

A rescuer immediately responded on foot from Havasupai Gardens, and search and rescue crews were deployed by helicopters.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 20, 2023

In 2005, members of the Native American Havasupai Tribe sued Arizona State University after scientists took tissue samples the tribe donated for diabetes research and used them without consent to study schizophrenia and inbreeding.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot

This story was told to me by O-dig-i-ni-ni-na, one of the old men story-tellers of the Havasupais.

From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by George Wharton James

But both at Bass Camp and at this point, the Havasupais had made trails down to the river, of the existence of which the Hopis may, or may not, have known.

From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by George Wharton James

Heading Diamond Creek* on his mule, Garces made for the romantic retreat of the Havasupais in the canyon of Cataract Creek, a tributary from the south of the Grand Canyon.

From The Romance of the Colorado River The Story of its Discovery in 1840, with an Account of the Later Explorations, and with Special Reference to the Voyages of Powell through the Line of the Great Canyons by Frederick Samuel Dellenbaugh

Crossing the Red Horse Wash, known to the Havasupais as Ha-i-ga-sa-jul-ga, the line reaches Anita Junction.

From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by George Wharton James

Later, Lieutenant Cushing, guided by his Indian friends, rode across country to the Hopis, and then secured a Hopi guide who took him to see the Havasupais over the Moki Trail.

From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by George Wharton James