The Tribe of the Hopi

1. The Tribe of the Hopi Christine Nguyen & Jazmyn Gleason 3rd period

2. Tribal Name/Location: • Northeastern Arizona • Population of 6,946 people. • Believed to be descended from Ancient Puebloan cultures. • The tribe name is a shortened form of Hopituh Shi-nu-ma (“The Peaceful People” or “Peaceful Little ones”)

3. General Information • A state of total reverence and respect for all things. • Maize is the vital subsistence and religion. • Almost all Hopi people speak English today, but most of them also speak their native Hopi language which consists of long words. • Hopi men didn’t wear much clothing, only breechcloths or short kilts. • Hopi women wore knee-length cotton dresses called mantas. • Both men and woman wore deerskin moccasins. • For dances and special occasions, women painted their moccasins white and wrapped white strips of deerskin around their shins as leggings. • Hopi men usually wore cloth headbands tied around their foreheads. • Hopi women traditionally wore necklaces as well. • They made Kachina dolls. A Kachina is spirit being.

4. Continued… • Children were typically named by the women of the father’s clan. • Highly skilled micro or subsistence farmers. • Part of the wider cash economy. • Most have mainstream jobs. • Experts on crafting earthenware ceramics and the design and production of fine jewelry.

5. Important moments in history: • The first recorded European contact with the Hopi was by the Spanish in 1540. • In 1582-1583 the Hopi were visited by Antonio de Espejo’s expedition. • On December 16, 1882 President Arthur passed an executive order creating a reservation for the Hopi. • The Hopi was apart of the Pueblo revolt and it was the Pueblo groups came together to drive out the Spanish. • After the Mormons created Utah In 1847. A Mormon missionary, Jacob Hamblin, Befriended the Hopi Indians, and then built a LDS Church on Hopi land, in 1875

6. Image Gallery Hopi Snake Dancers Hopi People with Albert Einstein Hopi Girl Hopi Kachinas Hopi Reservation

7. Hopi Creation Myth • The world was at first just endless space and the creator Taiowa. Taiowa created Sotuknang and he created the nine planets. Sotuknang gathered matter from the endless space to make these nine worlds. The creator then orders Sotuknang to gather the waters from the space and put them on the planets. Next Sotuknang gathered air to create winds and breezes. Sotuknang’s next order was to create life, so Sotuknang created the spider woman. The spider woman was then faced with the task to create people, animals and plants. The spider woman gathered dirt and spit to create two humans, named Poqanghoya and Poqanghoya. They were both sent out to the poles of the earth to keep them spinning. She then created more humans, black, red, yellow, and red.

8. Credits: • Hauser, Erika. “Portfolio of Hopi Kachinas”. The Robert Goldwater Library Online Resource. April 03, 2008. Web. 10/23-12 • Unknown. “Hopi Creation Myth”. World-Mysteries. Com: Blog. World-Mysteries.com/ January 5, 2011. Web. 10/23/12 • Unknown. “Hopi People”. Wikipedia. October 23, 2012. Web. 10/23/12 • Unknown. “Hopi Indian Fact Sheet”. Orrin's Website. Native Languages of the Americas website. Web. 10/23/12 • Zimmerman, Fritz . “Hopi Indians: American Indian Pictures”. Indians Pictures. Blogger, December 7, 2011. Web. 10/23/12