Havasupai
Americannoun
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Havasupais,
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Havasupai
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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 May, a ceremony marked the renaming of a popular campground in the inner canyon from Indian Garden to Havasupai Gardens, or “Ha’a Gyoh,” in the Havasupai language.
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
The beacon was located about 1.5 miles north of the Havasupai Gardens campground.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 17, 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
The result is that with comparatively little labor the Havasupais are able to produce excellent crops of corn, beans, chillis, onions, melons, squash and other vegetables.
From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by George Wharton James
I will tell you," he said, "how the Havasupais came to select this canyon for their home.
From The Pony Rider Boys in the Grand Canyon Or, The Mystery of Bright Angel Gulch by Frank Gee Patchin
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
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 George Wharton James
On the Bright Angel Trail is the Indian Garden, where, for many years, the Havasupais used to cultivate their corn, beans, onions and melons.
From The Grand Canyon of Arizona; how to see it by George Wharton James
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