1. A Study of Hualapai Ethnogeology
4/10/2009
A Study of Hualapai Ethnogeology
By Jennifer L. McNeil

2. TRAIL OF TIME Professor Steven Semken
NSF Informal Science Education Grant ISE
Virtual Trail of Time
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3. Background What is Ethnogeology? A Sense of Place
“Indigenous knowledge focused on Earth systems and processes...” (Karlstrom, et al. 2008)
A Sense of Place
“..a set of meanings of and attachments to places that are held by individuals or groups.” (Semken, 2005)
Assist in Place-Based Education
Cumulative ‘empirical observation, reasoning’
Attachments to place
Spatial and Temporal cognition
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4. Origins Physical Cerbat Spiritual Mt. Wikame Yuman language Other?
LAND IN WORLD OF WATER
Matavila
War with Yavapai
Mohave
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5. Reservation
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6. Mohawk Canyon
Peach Springs, AZ
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7. Hualapai Seal Hair Canyon Reservation Sun Tracks Pine Trees
Man and Woman
Hair
Canyon
Reservation
Sun
Tracks
Pine Trees
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8. Hualapai Words Hualapai, Walapai, Wallapi, etc…
Mata θwa’lgut, hole in the ground
Ta’kemi’nva, Cave spring
Kwaguwu’de, mountain with kwaguwu’de growing on it
Wi kiatkia’t, a big rock, six miles
Buima’ tcelo’va, Skunk canyon
Tcukia’l tuvkyo’, deepwater amoung the rocks.
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9. Whahavo Sacred cave in Mohawk Canyon Archeo
Whala Kitev Giova rock shelter?
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10. Hurricane Fault
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11. Further Research Interviews Cerbat and Yuman origins
Hualapai Dictionary
What connection to the caves did they have?
Cognitive understanding of time and vertical translation?
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12. fin
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13. References
Dobyns, Henry F and Robert C. Euler The Walapai. Phoenix: Indian Tribal Series.
Karlstrom, Karl, Steven Semken, Laura Crossey, Deborah Perry, Eric D. Gyllenhaal, Jeff Dodick, Michael Williams, Judy Hellmich-Bryan, Ryan Crow, Nievita Beueno Watts, Charles Ault Informal Geoscience Education on a Grand Scale: The Trail of Time Exhibition at Grand Canyon. Journal of Geoscience Education, v.56,n. 4, p
Kniffen, Fred, Gordon MacGregor, Robert McKennan, Scudder Mekeel, and Maurice Mook American Anthropological Association. Menasha, Wisconsin. USA: American Anthropological Association.
McKee, Edwin D The Environment and History of the Toroweap and Kaibab Formations of Northern Arizona and Southern Utah. Washington, DC: Carnegie Institution of Washington, DC.
Riggs, Eric M Toward an Understanding of the Roles of Scientific, Traditional, and Spiritual Knowledge in Our “Demon-Haunted World”.. American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 22:1, p
Riggs, Eric M., Dawn Marsh Riggs Cross-Cultural Education of Geoscience Professionals: The Conferences of the Indigenous Earth Science Project. Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 51, n. 5, p
Smeken, Steve A Sense of Place and Place-Based Introductory Geoscience Teaching for American Indian and Alaska Native Undergraduates. Journal of Geoscience Education, v. 53, n. 2, p
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14. Towne, Douglas Ambient Groundwater Quality of the Hualapai Valley Basin: a 2000 Baseline Study. Arizona Department of Environmental Quality. ADEQ Open File Report p.
United States. Congress. Senate Walapai Papers: Historical Reports, Documents, and Extracts from Publications Relating to the Walapai Indians of Arizona. 74th Congress, 2nd Session. GPO.
United States Department of Agriculture. Soil Survey of Hualapai Area, Arizona, Parts of Coconino, Mohave, and Yavapai Counties. Department of Agriculture. GPO.
Wenrich, K.J., G.H. Billingsley, and P.W. Huntoon Breccia-Pipe and Geologic Map of the Northwestern Part of the Hualapai Indian Reservation and Vicinity, Arizona. United States Geological Survey. 1:48,000 Map I sheets, 1 report.
Wenrich, K.J., G.H. Billingsley, and P.W. Huntoon Breccia-Pipe and Geologic Map of the Northeastern Part of the Hualapai Indian Reservation and Vicinity, Arizona. United States Geological Survey. 1:48,000 Map I-2440.
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Dobyns, Henry F and Robert C. Euler The Walapai. Phoenix: Indian Tribal Series
United States Department of Agriculture. Soil Survey of Hualapai Area, Arizona, Parts of Coconino, Mohave, and Yavapai Counties. Department of Agriculture. GPO.
Kniffen, Fred, Gordon MacGregor, Robert McKennan, Scudder Mekeel, and Maurice Mook American Anthropological Association. Menasha, Wisconsin. USA: American Anthropological Association.
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