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Tourists hoping to see world-famous waterfalls on the Havasupai Tribe Reservation in northern Arizona instead went through harrowing flood evacuations when flooding had washed away a bridge to the campground.
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The Havasupai Tribe will allow visitors to return to the reservation on Feb. 1 after a nearly three-year halt of tourism during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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President Joe Biden has approved a disaster declaration made by the Havasupai Tribe in northern Arizona, freeing up funds for flood damage as it prepares to re-open for tourists.
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The Havasupai Tribe plans to restart tourism operations in February of 2023 after shutting down to the public at the start of the coronavirus pandemic.
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An oasis halfway down the Grand Canyon on a popular hiking trail is now officially called “Havasupai Gardens.” The name was changed from “Indian Garden” last month at the request of the Havasupai Tribe. Havasupai lived and farmed in the area up until 1928, when the National Park Service forced them out. KNAU’s Melissa Sevigny spoke with tribal member Carletta Tilousi about that history.
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The Indian Garden name assigned to a popular Grand Canyon campground has been changed out of respect for a Native American tribe that was displaced by the national park.
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The Havasupai Tribe will receive more than 7 million dollars in federal funding to boost high-speed Internet access. Like many rural Indigenous communities, the remote reservation in the Grand Canyon has long struggled with connectivity.
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Havasupai Chairman Thomas Siyuja, Sr. says the renaming of the sacred place will “finally right that wrong" of the forcible removal of the Havasupai people.
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A new poll shows strong support for establishing a permanent ban on uranium mining on a million acres surrounding Grand Canyon National Park. A coalition of tribes, environmental groups and elected officials for years have pushed for the ban to protect the area’s water and Indigenous lands.
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A U.S. Senate subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday on the Grand Canyon Protection Act that would permanently ban new uranium claims on more than a million acres surrounding Grand Canyon National Park.