Betting to ‘improve our lot,’ Hualapai Tribe puts up $30M Opens to public next week; be prepared to pay

GRAND CANYON WEST The Hualapai Tribe is betting $30 million that an unpaved transportation artery leading to a remote stretch of the Grand Canyon rim will pump life into the tribe’s tourism-based economy.

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Wed, March 21st, 2007

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