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Arizona: Havasu Canyon, Havasupai Indian Reservation

12 images Created 8 Jun 2011

On the Havasupai Indian Reservation, Havasu Creek flows over Havasu Falls and Mooney Falls through Havasu Canyon, part of the Grand Canyon, in Arizona, USA. (1999 images.) The beautiful color in the pools of Havasu Creek is caused by carbonate minerals settling to the bottom, turning it white, and acting as a reflector of the surrounding green and brown mossy cliffs plus the blue sky. This unique color combination creates a striking turquoise pool, and one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world.

Havasupai (or Havasu 'Baaja) means "people of the blue-green water," and their people have tended fields in the Grand Canyon for at least 700 years. The Havasupai also lived at what is now called Indian Garden on the Bright Angel Trail in the main Grand Canyon, but they were evicted by the National Park Service in the 1920's. Their brush shelters (wickiups) and gardens were destroyed at Indian Garden, leaving the Havasupai Tribe just 518 acres in Havasu Canyon. In the more enlightened year of 1975, fully 187,500 acres of canyon and rimland were returned to the tribe. As of 2005, about 450 of the tribe's 650 members live in the village of Supai. As of 1999, Supai is the only town in the United States which still receives its mail by mule train.

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  • On the Havasupai Indian Reservation, Havasu Falls, Creek, and Canyon flow into Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. Published in "Light Travel: Photography on the Go" book by Tom Dempsey 2009, 2010.
    99AZ-07-33-Havasu-Falls-MASTER.jpg
  • On the Havasupai Indian Reservation, Havasu Falls, Creek, and Canyon flow into Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA.
    99AZ-07-20_Havasu-Falls-h.jpg
  • Cactus spines and red flowers, Havasupai Indian Reservation, Arizona, USA.
    99AZ-09-04_Cactus_spines_red_flower.jpg
  • The Havasupai tribe call it "Mother of the Waters," and others call this 200-foot waterfall Mooney Falls (after a miner who fell to his death here), on Havasu Creek, in the Havasupai Indian Reservation, Arizona, USA.
    99AZ-08-36_Mooney-Falls-half-sun.jpg
  • The Havasupai tribe call it "Mother of the Waters," and others call this 200-foot waterfall Mooney Falls (after a miner who fell to his death here), on Havasu Creek, in the Havasupai Indian Reservation, Arizona, USA.
    99AZ-10-05_Mooney-Falls-cave.jpg
  • On the Havasupai Indian Reservation, Havasu Falls, Creek, and Canyon flow into Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. Published in 2013 for a tour brochure by Shogai-kando.com of Japan.
    99AZ-08-28-Havasu-Falls-travertine.jpg
  • On the Havasupai Indian Reservation, Havasu Falls, Creek, and Canyon flow into Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA.
    99AZ-07-18_Havasu-Falls-in-shade.jpg
  • On the Havasupai Indian Reservation, Havasu Falls, Creek, and Canyon flow into Grand Canyon, Arizona, USA. Published in 2013 for a tour brochure by Shogai-kando.com of Japan.
    99AZ-07-31_Havasu-Falls.jpg
  • The Havasupai tribe call it "Mother of the Waters," and others call this 200-foot waterfall Mooney Falls (after a miner who fell to his death here), on Havasu Creek, in the Havasupai Indian Reservation, Arizona, USA.
    99AZ-10-13enh_Mooney-Falls.jpg
  • Chloride (postal zip code 86431) is a former silver mining camp and living ghost town in Mohave County, Arizona, USA. Chloride, founded about 1863 beneath the Cerbat Mountains, is the oldest continuously inhabited mining town in Arizona. Other metals mined included gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper, molybdenum, and vanadium. The high Mojave desert (4009 feet elevation) location sees 350 sunshine days per year.
    11AZ1-3271_Chloride-Arizona.jpg
  • The Havasupai tribe call it "Mother of the Waters," and others call this 200-foot waterfall Mooney Falls (after a miner who fell to his death here), on Havasu Creek, in the Havasupai Indian Reservation, Arizona, USA.
    99AZ-10-18_Mooney-Falls.jpg
  • Chloride (postal zip code 86431) is a former silver mining camp and living ghost town in Mohave County, Arizona, USA. Chloride, founded about 1863 beneath the Cerbat Mountains, is the oldest continuously inhabited mining town in Arizona. Other metals mined included gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper, molybdenum, and vanadium. The high Mojave desert (4009 feet elevation) location sees 350 sunshine days per year.
    11AZ1-3268_Chloride-Arizona.jpg
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