Hualapai Tribe

United States

Indigenous Peoples of the United States Research

Indigenous Peoples of Arizona

Hualapai Tribe

Tribal Headquarters

Hualapai Tribe
P.O. Box 179
Peach Springs, AZ 86434
Phone: 1.928.769.2216
Fax: 1.928.769.2343

Hualapai Tribal Nation Official Website

History

• Shepherd, Jeffrey P. We Are an Indian Nation: A History of the Hualapai People. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2010. WorldCat 440562955
• Casebier, Dennis G. Camp Beale's Springs and the Hualapai Indians. Norco, Calif: Tales of the Mojave Road Pub. Co, 1980. WorldCat 6839734

Brief Timeline

1883 Hualapai reservation established

Reservations

This tribe is primarily associated with the Hualapai Reservation in Arizona.

Agencies

Hualapai Agency

Mojave Agency

Records

The majority of records of individuals were those created by the agencies. Some records may be available to tribal members through the tribal headquarters.They were (and are) the local office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and were charged with maintaining records of the activities of those under their responsibility. Among these records are:

• Allotment records
• Annuity rolls
• Census records
• Correspondence
• Health records
• Reports
• School census and records
• [[American Indian Vital Records Supplements in Census Rolls|Vital records]

Enrollment Records

• An Enrollment list of the Hualapai Indian tribe from around Peach Springs, Arizona, 1936 also included are some cemetery inscriptions from the Indian Reservation cemetery at Valentine, Arizona and a burial ground northeast of Peach Springs, Arizona FHL film 186549
• Indian census roll, Hualapai Agency, Hackberry, Arizona, 1896-1898 FHL film 576885

Websites

• Amended Constitution and By-Laws of the Hualapai Tribe of the Hualapai Reservation Arizona, Effective October 22, 1955
• Hualapai Tribe Wikipedia
• Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian, The Walapai
• Hualupai Indians, Name, Location, History, Population, Websites, Books
• Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., Hualapai Tribe
• Economic Development Research Program, The University of Arizona, Arizona's Native Tribes

Bibliography

• McMillen, Christian W. Making Indian Law: The Hualapai Land Case and the Birth of Ethnohistory. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. WorldCat 71286667
• United States. Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940. Hualapai (Walapai or Hualapai and Havasupai Indians). Washington, D.C.: The Bureau, 1896. WorldCat 34772081
• United States. Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940. Washington: National Archives and Records Service, 1965. WorldCat 21415707
• United States. Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940. Jicarilla. Washington, D.C.: The Bureau, 1900. WorldCat 34772194
• Euler, Robert C. Walapai Culture-History. Ann Arbor, Mich: University Microfilms International, 1981. WorldCat 7906725
• Drake, Gordon V. A History of the Hualapai Indians and a Study of the Acculturation of Hualapai Indian Students: Formerly Attending Indian Schools on the Reservation, in the Public Schools of Seligman, Arizona, After a Trial Period of Three Years. Flagstaff: Arizona State College, 1955. WorldCat 3448688

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