Talk:Hualapai

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[edit] spelling of name

Original page had the tribal name spelled Huaulapai sometimes and credited the main spelling to the spanish - implying a misunderstanding or change of some sort and not just a typo.

Can someone provide the correct pronunciation(s) for Hualapai/Walapai? I mean the way the tribe itself speaks the name of the tribe.

[edit] possible sources

Some possible sources?

• http://www.americansouthwest.net/arizona/grand_canyon/hualapai_reservation.html
• http://www.ics.uci.edu/~aisi/97_aisics/people/odavis/hualapai1.html
• http://www.cpluhna.nau.edu/People/pais.htm

Dreamingkat 04:10, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Attack on Wagon Train

The John Udell wagon train, which left Santa Fe and headed towards California along the 35th parallel, reached the Colorado River in August of the year 1858. While part of the wagon train paused at Sitgreaves Pass, the Mojaves (Pipa a'ha macave) welcomed them as friends. The great Cairook and his protege' Sickahot met the wagon train and asked them what their intentions were, fearing the Anglos had come to stay.

On August 30, 1858, a moderate number of Hualapai (estimated from 40 to 60), with 7 or 9 Mojave, attacked the wagon train and killed as many as three people (one dead and two missing); one Hualapai warrior held up a fresh scalp to show Udell's people and taunt them with it. The wagon train lost almost all of its livestock and wagons, and went back to New Mexico.

In retaliation the USA Army went up the river from the Yuma Crossing, in two steamboats, and punished the Mojave for what the Hualapai had done. The official number of dead Mohaves is 48; Mojave witnesses said that hundreds of Mojave, many of them children and women, were killed. --Desertphile 03:22, 22 January 2007 (UTC)