The Indians of the Painted Desert Region: Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, HavasupaisJames, George Wharton
Religion
The Indians of the Painted Desert Region: Hopis, Navahoes, Wallapais, Havasupais
James, George Wharton
Indians of North America -- Southwest, New
[6] There are several other fair springs in the vicinity, chiefly
Johnson's to the north of Kingman, and Gentile Springs, below the pass
through which the Santa Fé railway enters Sacramento Valley.
Garcés says the people received him hospitably and "conducted
themselves with me as comported with the affection that I had shown
toward them." Their dress was antelope skins and "some shirts of Moki,"
doubtless the cotton woven shirts of these primitive weavers.
Lieutenant Ives, in his interesting report of his early explorations
in this region, describes the Wallapais in Peach Springs and Diamond
Canyons, another of their favored locations, and Captain Bourke in his
"On the Border with Crook" makes passing mention of them.
On January 4, 1883, President Arthur decreed the following as their
reservation:--
"It is hereby ordered that the following-described tract of country
situated in the Territory of Arizona be, and the same is hereby, set
aside and reserved for the use and occupancy of the Hualapai Indians,
namely: Beginning at a point on the Colorado River five miles eastward
of Tinnakah Spring; thence south twenty miles to crest of high mesa;
thence south forty degrees east twenty-five miles to a point of Music
Mountains; thence east fifteen miles; thence north fifty degrees east
thirty-five miles; thence north thirty miles to the Colorado River;
thence along said river to the place of beginning; the southern
boundary being at least two miles south of Peach Spring, and the
eastern boundary at least two miles east of Pine Spring. All bearings
and distances being approximate.
"CHESTER A. ARTHUR."
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