The Hualapai are a native people of the Southwest. Traditionally they inhabited an area of more than five million acres. Their homeland stretched from the Grand Canyon Southward to the Bill Williams and Santa Maria rivers, and from the Black Mountains eastward to the pine forests of the San Francisco Peaks. Primarily nomadic hunter-gatherers, the Hualapai were organized in bands. Each band occupied a defined territory in pursuit of seasonally-available wild plants and animals. Farming was also practiced in locations where adequate water was available.

Skillful traders, the Hualapai engaged in commerce with groups far and wide. They exchanged meat for corn, pumpkins, and squash grown by Mojave Indians along the Colorado River. They traded hides to the Havasupai of the Grand Canyon for cultivated crops. They even exchanged specialized products–dried mescal, red hematite, and exquisite basketry–to the native people as far away as the Pacific Coast and the Rio Grand Valley. The material culture of the Hualapai reflected their nomadic lifestyle. Moving on foot - the Hualapai carried few belongings. They used stone tools, ground their food on stones found at each resting point, and cooked in pottery vessels. The people ate wild foods such as cactus, yucca fruits, pinon nuts, agave hearts and mesquite beans. They also indulged in small mammals, prong-horn, deer and mountain sheep.

As needed, the Hualapai assembled shelters from readily-available materials including brush and earth. The Hualapai built simple thatched brush and bark dome houses at each camp for shade in summer and sturdier mud-plastered huts in winter. Men used sweat lodges both for curing and as clubhouses; women entered them less frequently, primarily for healing.

The Great Spirit created Man and Woman in his own image. In doing so, both were created as equals. Both depending on each other in order to survive. Great respect was shown for each other, in doing so, happiness and contentment was achieved them as it should be now.

The connecting of the Hair makes them one person; for happiness or contentment cannot be achieved without each other.

The Canyons are represented by the purples in the middle ground, where the people were created. These canyons are Sacred, and should be so treated at all times.

The Reservation is pictured to represent the land that is ours, treat it well.

The Sun is the symbol of life, without it nothing is possible - plants don't grow - there will be no life - nothing. The Sun also represents the dawn of the Hualapai people. Through hard work, determination and education, everything is possible and we are assured bigger and brighter days ahead.

The Tracks in the middle represent the coyote and other animals which were here before us.

The Green around the symbol are pine trees, representing our name Hualapai - PEOPLE OF THE TALL PINES