“Hopi, Hopi What A Dance!” “Hopi, Hopi What A Rain!” was the headline of the day in the Washington Post and Star in 1926. The U.S. Congress invited the Hopi people from Shungopavi, Mishongnovi and Sipaulovi to a reception in…
Read MoreAugust 10, 1680 is a date of painful memories in the Pueblo World known as the “Pueblo Revolt”. The date is not a celebration or holiday. It cannot be erased. “On June 13, 2000, Bishop Donald E. Pelotte, Bishop of…
Read More“You have to listen to a fluent speaker in the language for 2,000 hours, and you will then understand about 95% of what that person is saying. After 6,000 hours of being totally immersed in the language, you are functionally…
Read MoreA Human kneels at a gravesite. Alone. World events Whirling. This was what we saw. Why? Who? What makes this place Sacred? The answer lies within that person alone. It is very difficult to write stories about normal, usual, boring…
Read MoreEvery good Hopi story starts with a kernel of truth. A burro, a Hopi maiden and slave traders are kernels in this story. The dates of this story are fluid. It could have been 1846 or 1866. In Hopi memory,…
Read MoreAugust 10, 1680. On this day, the sound of hard breathing, padding of moccasin feet and an intention of great changes came from the East Horizon, in the form of a fast but tired runner who held a rope of twined…
Read MoreU’yis muyaw, the planting moon marks the lunar cycle for the new Hopi planting season. The indigenous, drought resistant Mother Corn is reverently selected and cleaned by the women for planting by the Hopi males. A new beginning of…
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