How much the Hopi value turquoise becomes apparent toward the close of a ritual enactment known as the Clown Ceremony. |
Students turn their attention to the study of American Indian tribes, including the Hopi, Navajo, Apache and others. |
The workshop focuses on the Hopi kachina as a representation of the spirits in nature, especially as they relate to rainfall. |
For more than twenty-five years, his work as an ethnolinguist has focused on the preservation of Hopi language and culture. |
The manifestations of spirits, the katsinas, are of supreme importance to the Hopi. |
Fierce land disputes between their tribes far predate the 19 th-century creation of the Navajo and Hopi reservations, and continue to this day. |