Tags: Ethnic Group.
The Havasupai people (Havasupai: Havsuw’ Baaja) are an American Indian tribe who has lived in the Grand Canyon for at least the past 800 years.Located primarily in an area known as Cataract Canyon this Yuman-speaking population once laid claim to an area the size of Delaware. In 1882 however the tribe was forced by the federal government to abandon all but 518 acres of its land. The Havasupai witnessed a silver rush and the Santa Fe Railroad in effect destroyed what was fertile land.
