[1946 TRIP TO HAVASUPAI INDIAN RESERVATION AT THE GRAND CANYON w/ LEE MARSHALL]

Genre: home movie

Year Published: 1946

Description:

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Dating to 1946, this elaborate home movie shows an intrepid (and unnamed) tourist family's trip to the Havasupai Indian Reservation at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The film begins with shots of a man and his wife studying a map and planning an itinerary. At (:46), the couple leaves the El Tovar Hotel at the Grand Canyon's South Rim, as a pencil traces a line on a map to the west end of the Canyon. At (1:42), 33 miles later the Havasupai tour guides help unload a flatbed truck and the adventure begins. At (2:27) mules or donkeys are loaded with supplies for the trip down to the Reservation. The man, his wife and daughter being the trek down. At (3:58) the Havasupai Indian tour guide is identified as Lee Marshall. (Marshall was later Tribal Chairman and visited Washington D.C. when the Havasupai clan was threatened with relocation. He famously declared at that hearing, “I am the Grand Canyon.”). He is shown examining calcified tree roots. At (4:40) is footage of Havasupai at play and at work, including a squaw harvesting plants and a cowboy on a horse. At (5:07) school aged kids are seen. At (5:19) a small sweat lodge is shown and at (6:00) views of what appears to be a horse ranch or farm. At (6:38) shots of some of the waterfalls followed by beautiful pools at (8:05). At (10:24) the main trail through the town of Supai, essentially the capital city of the reservation, at the bottom of Havasu “Cataract” Canyon. At (10:55) the tourists return to civilization on donkeys or mules. At (11:29) the dad is shown riding a horse bareback. The final shot in the film is from somewhere else, with a wave breaking on a distant shore.

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Complete Record: Dating to 1946, this elaborate home movie shows an intrepid (and unnamed) tourist family's trip to the Havasupai Indian Reservation at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. The film begins with shots of a man and his wife studying a map and planning an itinerary. At (:46), the couple leaves the El Tovar Hotel at the Grand Canyon's South Rim, as a pencil traces a line on a map to the west end of the Canyon. At (1:42), 33 miles later the Havasupai tour guides help unload a flatbed truck and the adventure begins. At (2:27) mules or donkeys are loaded with supplies for the trip down to the Reservation. The man, his wife and daughter being the trek down. At (3:58) the Havasupai Indian tour guide is identified as Lee Marshall. (Marshall was later Tribal Chairman and visited Washington D.C. when the Havasupai clan was threatened with relocation. He famously declared at that hearing, “I am the Grand Canyon.”). He is shown examining calcified tree roots. At (4:40) is footage of Havasupai at play and at work, including a squaw harvesting plants and a cowboy on a horse. At (5:07) school aged kids are seen. At (5:19) a small sweat lodge is shown and at (6:00) views of what appears to be a horse ranch or farm. At (6:38) shots of some of the waterfalls followed by beautiful pools at (8:05). At (10:24) the main trail through the town of Supai, essentially the capital city of the reservation, at the bottom of Havasu “Cataract” Canyon. At (10:55) the tourists return to civilization on donkeys or mules. At (11:29) the dad is shown riding a horse bareback. The final shot in the film is from somewhere else, with a wave breaking on a distant shore.