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Hopi. Shelby Skauge Mr. Rose Period 1. Environment. Black Mesa, 3 steep sides Four Corners Area, Ne Arizona Lived in the Plains Minerals: copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver, uranium, molybdenum, and asbestos were available Water is healthy
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Hopi Shelby Skauge Mr. Rose Period 1
Environment • Black Mesa, 3 steep sides • Four Corners Area, Ne Arizona • Lived in the Plains • Minerals: copper, zinc, lead, gold, silver, uranium, molybdenum, and asbestos were available • Water is healthy • Animals grizzly bears, timber wolf, elk, and bison. • Very warm, humid
Religion • Religion is Life • Most ceremonies relate to rain • Kachinas • Religion starts at a young age. • Nine Prophecies of the Nine Worlds • Kivas • They put sacred cornmeal, tobacco, and feathers before the altar. • Hopi show less interest in the afterlife.
Government • The Hopi had many priests, Snake Priest and Antelope Priest. • The Crier Chief announced all ceremonies • Sacred Hopi Clowns • Only Men are religious leaders • Matrilineal
Food • Mammoths • Bison • Collect Wild Plants • 24 Different kinds of corn • Piki- paper thin bread made of corn and ash • Beans, squash, melons, pumpkins, fruit www.statemuseum.arizona.edu www.minnehahacounty.org
Shelter • Pueblos, made of stone and mud • Center had a firepit • Climb down a ladder to the south end • Walls are made of stone fragments bound with • mud plaster. • Roof is made of many layers • Most pueblos had more than 1 floor
Clothing • Depends on what you do • Wore little clothing • Dressed in flowers, paint, feather headdresses • Used clothing to signify their fighting talent • When marrying women wore dresses, men wore several bead necklaces
Gender Roles • They had specific jobs • Women did housework, cooked, and wove baskets • Men planted, harvested, wove clothing, and performed ceremonies • Women owned all land and the house • Men owned livestock and fruit trees
Arts • Art is a way to communicate dreams, visions, and beliefs • Pottery, clothing, and baskets just a portion • Used symbols and signs that told stories • Pottery was used for everyday use, cooking, storage, bathing. • Modern pottery is softer than theirs • They fired the clay for a long time after having the clay buried in the moist sand.
Peace/Costumes • The Hopi are peaceful • Hopituh Shi-nu-mu means “The Peaceful Little People” • Their belief is to help others improve their lives • Dancers dress like Kachinas • Masks
Festivals • November: Wuwuchim, a 16 day ceremony on Creation. • December: Soyal, Rebirth of New life • February: Powamu, Purification, monster • March through June: Plaza dances • July: Niman, Home Dance, 16 day Ceremony • August: The Snake Dance or Flute Dance • September: Lakon, basket dance, harvesting • October: Owaqlt, end of yearly cycle
Snake Dance/ Flute Dance • Snake dance requires 2 weeks of preparation • The Children watch over the snakes • Mostly rattlesnakes • Dancers take emetic, a sedative herb or hallucinogenic • The Flute Dance is a 9 day celebration • Flute Society walks over sacred cornmeal
Mythology • Taiowa, the creator god, made Souknang and oredered him to make the universe. The 1st world was Topela, land, water and air also with Koyangwuti, spider woman. • Spider woman made twins • The twins made rivers, oceans, and mountains • Organisms, men did not obey
History • Their ancestors Anasazi • Arrived to their area circa 5,000-10,000 yrs. Ago • Came from all over • 1050 the Hopi we know today • The oldest continued tribe • Related to Aztecs
Domestication/Medicines • Turkeys • Dogs • Corn • Medicine Man was talented • Herbs • Homemade Remedies • Bone Doctor • Greatest Medicine People in South • Ear Candles http://www.thehopiway.com/content/messages/techqua/issue_30.html
Technology/Artifacts • Artifacts: Turkey bones, baskets, pottery • Made pottery the same way • Irrigation • Burned Coal • Bows and Arrows • Sticks http://www.motthall.org/intro/cur/munoz/nav_amer/7/Hopi's.html
Language • Part of the Uto-Aztecan Family • Dialect is Shoshone • Distant to Rio Grande Tribes • Kiowa-Apache share • Diverse • Surrounded by alien tongues http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi
Bibliography http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hopi http://www.motthall.org/intro/cur/munoz/nav_amer/7/Hopi's.html http://www.thehopiway.com/content/messages/techqua/issue_30.html http://www.ausbcomp.com/redman/hopi.htm http://www.crystalinks.com/hopi.htm Americans Before Columbus by Elizabeth Chesley Baity