Table of contents
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1 - The Grand Canyon................................................................................. 4
Geography................................................................................................................. 4
The link..................................................................................................................... 4
Europeans in the Canyon.......................................................................................... 5
2 - The Hualapai........................................................................................ 6
The background of the Hualapai.............................................................................. 6
The present of the Hualapai..................................................................................... 6
The legend................................................................................................................ 6
The real origins......................................................................................................... 9
3 - Hualapai Life........................................................................................ 9
The present of the hualapai Indians......................................................................... 9
4 - The Hualapai Community in the present................................................ 10
Small, but growing population............................................................................... 10
The Sovereign Indian Nation's current system....................................................... 10
A necessary decision: tourism................................................................................ 10
5 - The Skywalk....................................................................................... 13
The ultimate gazebo............................................................................................... 13
The reason of the opposers.................................................................................... 13
Controversy............................................................................................................. 13
6 - The principle of the Hualapai............................................................... 14
A noble task............................................................................................................ 14
Works Cited............................................................................................................. 16
Images used............................................................................................................ 17
Made by Csikós Mátyás
2013