I didn't have any particular interest in Grand Canyon until about 1952. Dr. [Harold] Colton [who founded the Museum of Northern Arizona] sent me over to the Hualapai Reservation to assist that tribe in their land claims case against the federal government. I went there and a good friend and colleague of mine, Dr. Henry Dobyns, was with me. I did some excavation

for the tribe in some of the canyons tributary to the Colorado River— tributary to Grand Canyon off the South Rim, and that really got me excited about the archeology of that area. It was very rugged country. The Hualapais had never been interested in having anybody in there at all. They were not quite so sure of what an archeologist could do for them, but I wound up excavating several sites—mostly rock shelters in Mohawk Canyon, in Peach Springs Canyon, in what on the maps is

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