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Lois and Steve Hirst
The Hirsts first came to teach for the Havasupai in 1967, beginning a relationship that has persisted for forty years. As tribal employees, Lois directed Havasupai education programs while Steve worked for the tribal council. During the Hirsts’ years in Havasu Canyon, the Havasupai asked them to research and document their efforts to regain their ancestral lands. Their book I Am the Grand Canyon is the outcome of that work. The Hirsts left the Havasupai in 1983 for Lois to earn a doctorate at Northern Arizona University. In 1985, she became professor of educational leadership at Northern Michigan University. In 1996, she received the Michigan Board of Governors’ Distinguished Faculty award. The Hirsts reside in Flagstaff, where they are docents at the Museum of Northern Arizona, lead Elderhostel tours, and serve as interpretive rangers for a unique Forest Service/National Park Service partnership. They continue their friendship and work with the Havasupai people. | |||||||
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Steve
and Lois Hirst served with the first contingent of Peace Corps volunteers
to Liberia, West Africa, from 1962 to 1964. They worked and studied in
Bologna, Italy, during 1964 and 1965, and in 1966 Steve earned an MA
in international relations from The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies. As Soviet Desk Officer for the U.S. Commerce Department,
he took part in the U.S. government’s first trade mission to Eastern
Europe.