Word: canyon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...moonlit dunes un til 4 a.m. Said one enthusiast: "It is simply beautiful out there. In the moonlight, the sand looks as white as snow." If the sport exhilarates Californians, it absolutely floors foreigners. Wrote a senior Japanese naval officer after seeing the Las Vegas Strip, the Grand Canyon and Disneyland: "The U.S. is fine, but the dune buggies were fantastic-the highlight of our trip...
Only in the desert and within the walls of their plateau, property of the tribe for centuries, do the Havasupai feel comfortable. Yet the world beyond Highway 66 is now beginning to shatter that security. The Grand Canyon Dam is rising up river, meaning water and power for California. The Havasupai lands won't be flooded, but their rapids will disappear and the familiar will be rendered strange...
...volunteers realize, after a month, perhaps, that they can't "mobilize community interest" and solve Supai's problems. The Havasupai have begun to understand the decision they must make -- whether to commit themselves to maintaining the tribal ways in their canyon or to abandon Supai and follow the already-flown. But they postpone that decision...
...summer in Supai only reaffirms their determination to leave the settlement. Parents and tribal leaders, frightened by the threatened exodus of Havasupai's young blood, welcome the PBH volunteers to Supai because they are often able to convince the children and teenagers that there is something precious about their Canyon. Harvard students often claim that their job for the summer was "building egos" -- showing 10-year-olds who want to be the cowboy in "cowboys and Indians" that being Indian is special and desirable...
...maintain tribal lands in isolated places? PBH volunteers, as is to be expected, are never able to ease those problems: they work with the immediate emotional needs of those communities, with families splintered by migration and boarding schools, restless children who want to leave the floor of the Grand Canyon...