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-- Tribal members return home
PHOENIX (AP) -- Eighty Havasupai tribal members returned home Wednesday to a remote village in a branch of the Grand Canyon following their evacuation earlier this week due to flooding.
The Supai residents were taken from Peach Springs by bus to helicopters waiting at the top of the canyon. The choppers took four to five people to Supai at a time, Bureau of Indian Affairs spokeswoman Adrienne King said. She said some tribal members found other means of transportation, but that all the evacuees had returned home.
More than 420 people, including Havasupai members and tourists, were evacuated by helicopter out of Havasu Canyon on Sunday and Monday.
Thunderstorms dumped 3 to 6 inches of rain on the entire region Friday and Saturday and about 2 inches more on Sunday. The storms sent a rush of water down Havasu Creek, site of the town of Supai and nearby waterfalls and tourist camps.
Some trails and footbridges were washed out and trees were uprooted.
BIA officials and Havasupai members planned to meet Wednesday afternoon to discuss the damage to the Supai area caused by the flooding and a plan to fix it.
Sheila Manakaja, 40, has lived in Supai all her life and decided not to evacuate, saying she lives about 200 feet from the flooded river.
"It didn't seem like it was going to reach our area, and we didn't want to be displaced," Manakaja said from Supai. "It looks like it's going to take a lot of work before it's going to be back to normal," she said.
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