Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of a Native American people inhabiting northwest Arizona southeast of the Grand Canyon.
- noun The Yuman language of the Havasupai, closely related to Hualapai.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the Yuman language spoken by the Havasupai
- noun a member of a North American Indian people of Cataract Canyon in Arizona
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But come spring, he'll climb on one of his horses for the trip to Supai, on the Havasupai Indian Reservation.
For country doctor, house calls are a hike down Grand Canyon 2011
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But come spring, he'll climb on one of his horses for the trip to Supai, on the Havasupai Indian Reservation.
For country doctor, house calls are a hike down Grand Canyon 2011
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In 2005 the Havasupai tribe sued Arizona State University researchers for stigmatizing schizophrenia research the ASU conducted without consent on 400 blood samples from the tribe's members.
Harriet A. Washington: Gene Patenting Produces Profits, Not Cures 2010
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In 2005 the Havasupai tribe sued Arizona State University researchers for stigmatizing schizophrenia research the ASU conducted without consent on 400 blood samples from the tribe's members.
Harriet A. Washington: Gene Patenting Produces Profits, Not Cures Harriet A. Washington 2010
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We once stayed with the Havasupai tribe in an Arizonian side canyon.
Loved, Stupid billy robinson 2010
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In our climax Honkytonk Sue would occupy London Bridge and then beat the Army Corps of Engineers, who were about to flood the Havasupai, by challenging them to a massive game of bingo, in which Goldie plays about sixty competitors, among them a famous bingo fanatic from Las Vegas.
HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010
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Whether intentionally or unintentionally, this trust has at times been violated and betrayed, as with the Havasupai.
Robert Klitzman, M.D.: 'Just Sign the Form': Informed Consent, Medical Research and You 2010
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Leslie Silko does not easily fit in to the Hollywood way of doing things but she liked the Havasupai people and gave this one a good try.
HOLLYWOOD Larry McMurtry 2010
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"We're in a time of many alarming events and life crises that involve the basic elements of life: water, earth, sun (fire), and earth -- the foundations of life are our concern," Mona Polacca, a Hopi and Havasupai healer and counselor from Arizona told me.
Alison Rose Levy: A Meeting Of The Hearts: The Dalai Lama And The Thirteen Grandmothers 2009
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On the day that Salazar announced his faux time out, the Native Havasupai, who make their home at the base of the Grand Canyon's South Rim, began gathering to host a weekend teach-in and speak-out against uranium mining at Red Butte, a Havasupai sacred site they hope to defend from contamination and desecration by Denison Mines 'plan to reopen its nearby Arizona One uranium mine.
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