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1975 NAIA men's basketball tournament; Season: 1974–75: Teams: 32: Finals site: Kemper Arena Kansas City, Missouri: Champions: Grand Canyon (1 title, 1 title game, 1 Final Four) Runner-up: Midwestern State (1 title game, 1 Final Four) Semifinalists
In 1975, that monument and Marble Canyon National Monument, which was established in 1969 and followed the Colorado River northeast from the Grand Canyon to Lees Ferry, were made part of Grand Canyon National Park.
Finally, in 1975, the U.S. Congress passed the Grand Canyon National Park Enlargement Act, which was signed into law by President Gerald Ford on January 4, 1975. Among other things, the Act returned 188,077 acres (76,112 ha) of plateau and canyon lands to the Havasupai, which is what forms the reservation today. [4] [7] [9]
Forrest lead Grand Canyon to the 1975 NAIA Division I men's basketball tournament, where they defeated Midwestern State University 65–54 in the championship. In the championship game, Forrest had 16 points, 12 rebounds, six assists, and four blocked shots, and was named the tournament's Most Valuable Player. [1]
In the largest return in history of U.S. government land to an American Indian tribe, 250 square miles (650 km 2) of the Grand Canyon National Monument were deeded back to the Havasupai people with the signing of a bill by President Ford. The 400 members of the tribe had been limited to a reservation of only 518 acres (210 ha), less than one ...
In 1975 the abandoned mine became part of Grand Canyon National Park. The National Park Service later proposed removing the tramway remnants within the park, but there was public protest against demolition of these interesting historic relics.
Snake River Canyon: 1730 feet (527 m) X-2 Skycycle Steam-powered rocket: Parachute deployed at launch, slammed into rocks on the river's edge: Broken nose, minor scrapes and cuts May 26, 1975: Wembley Stadium London, England: 13 single-decker buses: 120 feet (37 m) Harley-Davidson XR-750: Landed on 13th bus: Fractured pelvis/broken hand ...
In 1975, the tribe succeeded in regaining approximately 185,000 acres (75,000 ha) of their ancestral land with the passage of the Grand Canyon National Park Enlargement Act. [ 5 ] As a means of survival, the tribe has turned to tourism, attracting thousands of people annually to its streams and waterfalls at the Havasupai Indian Reservation .