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.

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  • 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

[Probably Mohave havasu·pay, blue-green (water) person : havasu·, blue-green (water) + -pay, person.]

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • We once stayed with the Havasupai tribe in an Arizonian side canyon.

    Loved, Stupid billy robinson 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • "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

  • 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.

    Don't drink the uranium 2009

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