How Did Francisco Garcés Use The Hualapai Indians?
Historians believe that a Spanish missionary named Francisco Garcés made the first European contact with the Hualapai in 1776. Father Garcés found the Hualapai already using Spanish belts, awls, and other implements from New Mexico that they acquired through trade with the Hopi people. In his diary, Garcés uses the Spanish word profundisimos, to describe the most profound canyons opening before him.
Before contact with Europeans, the Hualapai world was vast in geographical scale and in human diversity. They developed trade connections with other tribes in the area that brought horses, cattle, and European goods to their lands. During 1857-58, Army First Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives led an expedition to explore the Grand Canyon area. …show more content…
The Hualapai went on the offensive to protect their land. The Hualapai War broke out in 1865, and lasted several years.
The Hualapai leaders at that time were: Wauba Yuma, Cherum, Hitch-Hitchie, and Susquatama (known by his nickname Hualapai Charley). It was not until William H. Hardy (who built a toll road from Hardyville to Prescott, Arizona in 1864) and the Hualapai leaders negotiated a peace agreement at Beale Springs that the raids and the fighting subsided. However, the agreement lasted only nine months when it was broken after the murder of Chief Wauba Yuma by Sam Miller, a freighter who believed that Indians under the chief killed a white man by the name of Edward Clower.
After the chief’s murder, raids by the Hualapai began in full force on mining camps and settlers. After heavy losses, a peace agreement was signed in 1868 between the U.S. Government and the …show more content…
On July 8, 1881, General Order 16 was issued, which set the boundaries of the new Hualapai Reservation. By taking the land out of the public domain, the government agreed to hold the land in trust for the tribe and protect it against non-Indian intrusion. The Hualapai became a new legal identity: a U.S. government-administered tribe. The Hualapai Reservation was established on January 4, 1883, when President Chester A. Arthur signed an executive order creating the Hualapai Reservation, consisting of one million acres (404,686 ha) of Hualapai ancestral
Before contact with Europeans, the Hualapai world was vast in geographical scale and in human diversity. They developed trade connections with other tribes in the area that brought horses, cattle, and European goods to their lands. During 1857-58, Army First Lieutenant Joseph Christmas Ives led an expedition to explore the Grand Canyon area. …show more content…
The Hualapai went on the offensive to protect their land. The Hualapai War broke out in 1865, and lasted several years.
The Hualapai leaders at that time were: Wauba Yuma, Cherum, Hitch-Hitchie, and Susquatama (known by his nickname Hualapai Charley). It was not until William H. Hardy (who built a toll road from Hardyville to Prescott, Arizona in 1864) and the Hualapai leaders negotiated a peace agreement at Beale Springs that the raids and the fighting subsided. However, the agreement lasted only nine months when it was broken after the murder of Chief Wauba Yuma by Sam Miller, a freighter who believed that Indians under the chief killed a white man by the name of Edward Clower.
After the chief’s murder, raids by the Hualapai began in full force on mining camps and settlers. After heavy losses, a peace agreement was signed in 1868 between the U.S. Government and the …show more content…
On July 8, 1881, General Order 16 was issued, which set the boundaries of the new Hualapai Reservation. By taking the land out of the public domain, the government agreed to hold the land in trust for the tribe and protect it against non-Indian intrusion. The Hualapai became a new legal identity: a U.S. government-administered tribe. The Hualapai Reservation was established on January 4, 1883, when President Chester A. Arthur signed an executive order creating the Hualapai Reservation, consisting of one million acres (404,686 ha) of Hualapai ancestral