MISSION

“Identifying, protecting, preserving, and managing cultural resources within Hualapai Tribal lands and Hualapai Traditional use lands. The Department shall implement and ensure appropriate measures to foster conditions that promote Hualapai Tribal sovereignty and meet the social, environmental, economic and other needs for present and future generations in providing leadership in preservation and protection of cultural resources of the Hualapai Nation.”

SERVICES

The Hualapai Cultural Center promotes cultural traditions and public education through continuing programs such as:

• Cultural Arts and Language Program (CAL)
  • Classes in pottery making
  • Cradleboard making
  • Hualapai cultural history, archaeology & anthropology
  • Field trips
• The yearly PAI Language Immersion Camp
  • Youth camp promoting Pai language
• Green arrow garden project
  • Community garden
• Support to the Yuman Language Summit
  • Pai language annual conference
• Youth and elder ethnobotany program
  • Classes promoting traditional ecological knowledge
• Quarterly Genealogy classes
•  Children Art Expo (May)
•  Support in the annual Pai Gathering
• Hualapai Language Immersion Program
•  Providing Language books through 1st Things 1st grant
• Native American Horsemanship Program
• Outreach Presentations on Hualapai Cultural at schools
  • Please contact Marcie Crayon for additional information

STAFF

The cultural programs are brought to life by the dedicated cultural center staff.

• Martina Dawley- Director, THPO, and Senior Archaeologist- Martina.Dawley@hualapai-nsn.gov
• Marcie Craynon- Admin. Assistant- Marcie.Craynon@hualapai-nsn.gov
• Carrie Cannon- Ethnobotanist- Carrie.Cannon@hualapai-nsn.gov
• Lyndee Hornell- Cultural Technician II- Lyndee.Hornell@hualapai-nsn.gov
• Drake Havatone- Cultural Technician II- Drake.Havatone@hualapai-nsn.gov
• Jorigine Paya- Hualapai Language Program Manager- Jorigine.Paya@hualapai-nsn.gov
• Grace Dashee- Archivist- Grace.Dashee@hualapai-nsn.gov