Hwalbay

Hwalbay is the homeland of the Hualapai, whose name means “people of the tall pines.” Their country extends across the mountains and plateaus of northwestern Arizona to the Grand Canyon and Colorado River. The Hualapai used different parts of this landscape in different seasons, combining hunting and gathering with cultivation where conditions permitted. Their ancestors also travelled between the canyon rim and the river corridor. The Franciscan Francisco Garcés visited the Hualapai country in 1776. Hualapai communities maintained close ties with their eastern neighbours, the Havasupai, with whom they shared language and intermarried.