Hualapai

The Hualapai, who call themselves Hwalbáy, are a Yuman-speaking people of the pine-covered southern rim of the Grand Canyon and the Colorado River in northwestern Arizona; their name means people of the tall pines. They were organized into three subtribes, divided into bands and smaller regional groups of extended families, and the Havasupai of Havasu Canyon were originally one such regional band.

Hunting and gathering were combined with farming along the streams, families sheltered in cedar-bough wikiups, and deerskin suits and rabbit-skin robes served as clothing.

The first recorded European to meet them was the Franciscan missionary Francisco Garcés, who travelled through their canyon country in 1776; Spanish-introduced horses spread among the Pai peoples only in the early nineteenth century.