Word: havasupais
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Supai is inacessible all winter: the dirt roads are washed out and the cliffs are slicked with ice. The Havasupai Indian tribe close the half-dozen tourist cabins they operate, send their children to the government boarding school, and tend their few sheep...
...Barksdale Kinsolving II, 69, Episcopal Bishop of Arizona since 1945, member of a Virginia family that produced nine clergymen (including bishops of Texas and Brazil), who ministered first to West Point cadets, then to Long Island suburbanites before going west, where parishioners ranged from the retired rich to the Havasupai Indians; of brain tumor; in Carmel, Calif...
People of the Blue Water, by Flora Gregg Iliff (Harper; $3.75), is the unusual story of how Author Iliff half a century ago taught school to an inaccessible Indian tribe called Havasupai. The Havasupai numbered only 250 and lived in Arizona at the bottom of an eight-mile canyon wall, 70 miles from the nearest town, which was a hot, dusty hamlet that "looked as if it had been blown in on a dry wind and stranded." Author Iliff served as teacher, doctor, judge, superintendent, and, incidentally, weather reporter to the U.S. Government. Her story is full of fascinating detail...