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Featured in the October 2024 Issue of Arizona Highways

The final blow came in 1919, when Grand Canyon National Park was estab- lished and the Havasupai were evicted from sites along springs where they had farmed for 1,000 years or more. Several years before the park dedication, President Theodore Roosevelt visited the Canyon and rode a mule down the Bright Angel Trail. He stopped at what settlers called Indian Garden (recently renamed Havasupai Gardens) and, with much fanfare, personally informed Havasupai families that they would need to move out to make way for the park. Meanwhile, the tribe's home on the South Rim, inside what had become
The final blow came in 1919, when Grand Canyon National Park was estab- lished and the Havasupai were evicted from sites along springs where they had farmed for 1,000 years or more. Several years before the park dedication, President Theodore Roosevelt visited the Canyon and rode a mule down the Bright Angel Trail. He stopped at what settlers called Indian Garden (recently renamed Havasupai Gardens) and, with much fanfare, personally informed Havasupai families that they would need to move out to make way for the park. Meanwhile, the tribe's home on the South Rim, inside what had become
BY: EIRINI PAJAK,W.P. Herman
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