Havasupai Tribe

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

Records at tribal headquarters are for currently enrolled tribal members. Records may include: allotments, annuities, enrollments, employees, courts, leases, police registers, registers of families, and vital records. These records vary from tribe to tribe. Find the older and most useful records for family history research at the BIA Agency for the tribe, or at the National Archives.

Established: 1880 Agency: Truxton Canyon Indian Agency (Arizona) Tribe:Havasupai Population: 1969 Tribal enrollment: 365

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

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


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

Land Records

 * Land Records: the land is tribally owned

For Further Reading
See also American Indian For Further Reading.


 * 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.
 * Hirst, Stephen, and Stephen Hirst. I Am the Grand Canyon: The Story of the Havasupai People. Grand Canyon, AZ: Grand Canyon Association, 2006.
 * Hirst, Stephen. Life in a Narrow Place. New York: D. McKay Co, 1976.
 * Hirst, Stephen. Havsuw 'baaja: People of the Blue Green Water. Supai, Ariz: Havasupai Tribe, 1985.
 * Schwartz, Douglas Wright. 1970. "The Havasupai 600 A.D.--1955 A.D. A Short Culture History". Plateau. 28.
 * Spier, Leslie. Havasupai Ethnography. New York city: The Trustees, 1928.
 * Sturtevant, William C., and Alfonso Ortiz. Handbook of North American Indians. Volume 10. Southwest. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1983.
 * Manners, Robert A., Henry F. Dobyns, and Robert C. Euler. Havasupai Indians. Havasupai Indians: an Ethnohistorical Report. New York: Garland Pub. Inc, 1974.
 * Dobyns, Henry F., and Robert C. Euler. The Havasupai People. Phoenix: Indian Tribal Series, 1971.
 * Havasupai Tribe. Wi Gegaba. 1975.
 * The Official Website of the Havasupai Tribe