Havasupai
Americannoun
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a member of a small tribe of nomadic North American Indians now living in Arizona.
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the Yuman language of the Havasupai.
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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
The Havasupai Tribe was landless for a time until the federal government set aside a plot in the depths of the Grand Canyon for members.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 20, 2023
The park’s regional communication center received an emergency alert from a personal beacon on the Bright Angel Trail, approximately 1.5 miles north of Havasupai Gardens, around 1:30 p.m. that day, according to the park service.
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
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 James, George Wharton
First the Havasupais were born, then the Apaches, then the Wallapais, then the Hopis, then the Paiutes, then the Navahos.
From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by James, George Wharton
Dr. Elliott Coues, who visited the Havasupais in 1881 with a governmental party, has translated Garces' diary, and it was published a short time ago by Francis P. Harper, of New York.
From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by James, George Wharton
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 James, George Wharton
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 James, George Wharton
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