Word: havasupai
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There are only 250 Havasupai in the Canyon now; brothers and cousins have gone to Flagstaff, to Albuquerque, to Los Angeles. Still tourist trade is good during the summer. The men lead packmule trains up and down the Canyon and the women maintain the cabins...
...white couple lives in Supai; she teaches primary school while he serves as postmaster-doctor-county agent. They are gossiped about but the Havasupai share with them the scrawny produce of front yard gardens...
...Havasupai are not open about their needs or articulate about their ties to the valley and their overwhelming curiosity about the world beyond Peach Springs. The Havasupai are particularly sceptical about any white man's wanting to pass a burning summer with them, shut away from the world...
Harvard volunteers are received graciously by the tribe, but the Havasupai are reluctant to confide their fears about what is happening to their dwindling poulation, to their tenuous economy, and to the precious Canyon that is threatened by a dam upstream...
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...