Havasupai political structure and leadership
essay 1987 Martin, John Franklin

HavasupaiNorth America > Southwest and Basin
In the forty-four years since the election of the first Havasupai Tribal Council Chairman, nineteen individuals have served in that capacity. The mean tenure is thus 2.2 years but this rather brief tenure masks further instability; among the eleven i...

A reconsideration of Havasupai land tenure
article 1968 Martin, John Franklin

HavasupaiNorth America > Southwest and Basin
In 1947, Elman R Service described Havasupai land rights as being distributed among the proprietor, the family, and the community, finding that the proprietor has little more than use rights and that the family ordinarily determines the choice of hei...

The prehistory and ethnohistory of Havasupai-Hualapai relations
article 1985 Martin, John Franklin

HavasupaiNorth America > Southwest and Basin
There are at least three distinct versions of Havasupai-Hualapai origins and ethnohistoric relations: those of Kroeber, Schwartz, and Euler and Dobyns. Each version appears in the articles on the Havasupai, the Hualapai, and comparative social organi...