Havasupai Tribe

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Havasupai Tribe

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Established: 1880

Agency:

Tribe:Havasupai

Population:  1969 Tribal enrollment: 365

Tribal Headquarters

Havasupai Tribe
P. O. Box 10
Supai, Arizona 86435
Tel: 928 448 2731
Fax: 928 448 2551
Email: info@havasupai-nsn.gov

The Official Website of the Havasupai Tribe

History

• A Brief History of Havasupai Formal Political Organization
• Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian, The Havasupai, Northwestern University, Digital Library Collections
• Havasupai Indian Tribe History
• Nature, Culture and History at the Grand Canyon, The Havasupai
• Havasupai Indians
• The Havasupai and the Hualapai
• Genealogy Trails History Group, Coconino County, Havasupai Indians

Brief Timeline

• 1776: Father Francisco Garces and early Spanish explorer may have visited
• 1840: The Tribe fought against the settlers who encroached upon their territory
• 1874: Western Pai force to relocate to the Colorado River Reservation
• 1881: Mines discovered at Cataract Creek, Arizona Territory, on the Havasupai Indian Reservation.
• 1882: Havasupai Reservation was created
• 1934: Federal recognition

Reservations

Havasupai Indian Reservation, Arizona (Reservation)

Records

The majority of records of individuals were those created by the agencies. Some records may be available to tribal members through the tribal headquarters.They were (and are) the local office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and were charged with maintaining records of the activities of those under their responsibility. Among these records are:

• Allotment records
• Annuity rolls
• Census records
• Correspondence
• Health records
• Reports
• School census and records
• Vital records

Census Records

Indian census rolls, Havasupai, 1905-1933, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington [District of Columbia] : The National Archives, 1965 FHL 576867

• Indian census rolls, 1885-1940, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington [District of Columbia] : The National Archives, 1965 FHL 576867

Land Records

• Land Records: the land is tribally owned

Websites

Havasupai Tribe

Bibliography

• Schwartz, Frank D. Tikalsky, Catherine A. Euler, John Nagel, Leslie Spier, and Erna Gunther. The Sacred Oral Tradition of the Havasupai: As Retold by Elders and Headmen Manakaja and Sinyella 1918-1921. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010. WorldCat 651486851
• Hirst, Stephen, and Stephen Hirst. I Am the Grand Canyon: The Story of the Havasupai People. Grand Canyon, AZ: Grand Canyon Association, 2006. WorldCat 67774027
• Hirst, Stephen. Life in a Narrow Place. New York: D. McKay Co, 1976. WorldCat 1733148
• Hirst, Stephen. Havsuw 'baaja: People of the Blue Green Water. Supai, Ariz: Havasupai Tribe, 1985. WorldCat 12809500
• Schwartz, Douglas Wright. 1970. "The Havasupai 600 A.D.--1955 A.D. A Short Culture History". Plateau. 28. WorldCat 36036940
• Spier, Leslie. Havasupai Ethnography. New York city: The Trustees, 1928. WorldCat 3101105
• Sturtevant, William C., and Alfonso Ortiz. Handbook of North American Indians. Volume 10. Southwest. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1983. WorldCat 26140052
• Manners, Robert A., Henry F. Dobyns, and Robert C. Euler. Havasupai Indians. Havasupai Indians: an Ethnohistorical Report. New York: Garland Pub. Inc, 1974. WorldCat 821449
• Dobyns, Henry F., and Robert C. Euler. The Havasupai People. Phoenix: Indian Tribal Series, 1971. WorldCat 139564
• Havasupai Tribe. Wi Gegaba. 1975. WorldCat 2118007