The Grand Canyon!
January, 2009
Arizona
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Comparing the Havusapai and Cherokees

by A.C. Berry

The Cherokee and the Havasupai are both Native American Indian tribes. Both populations still exist today.

The Havasupais live on the bottom of the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Approximately 400 people live in the desert village. The Havasupai have four ways to get food: by air (via helicopter), walking up the canyon to buy food, buying food from small café or a buying food from a small food mart.

The Havasupai today do not live in tee-pees, nor do they have a village chief.


The Cherokees live in the same land that they had 100s of years ago.

An interesting fact is that Cherokees have a casino in the village.

The region of the Havasupai has amazing waterfalls. The Cherokees of North Carolina have hotels and casinos so that makes the Cherokee Reservation different from the Havasupai Reservation.



Click here for more information about the Havasupai and Cherokee Casino:

Www.havasupaitribe.com/
To see photos from the reservation see here:
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To see a video click here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYs5zyM9zk8

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