Crucita - Old Hopi Dress, Joseph Henry Sharp, ca. 1920

Happy May the 4th be with you!

Here have a Hopi leia 🤍💫

Hopi basket, c.1800s.

Region: Arizona.

The Hopi are a Pueblo people, named for the are they inhabited. They continued the tradition of basketry that reaches back to the ancient peoples of the area. Basketry artefacts of the ancestors of the Pueblo tribes has been discovered ere, and these peoples have been dubbed the ‘Basket Maker Culture’ by archaeologists.

The trade network of the Pueblo extensive , and the decoration of goods was much influenced by contact with other cultures, including Mexican. Basket-making was exclusively carried out by women, whose wisdom and knowledge of the craft was essential for the making of quality bowls and baskets used and traded by the tribe. They understood the ecology of the surrounding area, and knew where the plants used in the making of the fibres could be found. They made assessments of the value of the materials and prepared them for specific uses. Many plants were used to make fibres from which the baskets were woven, including roots and grasses. The material chosen depended on the function of the basket – whether it needed to be particularly strong or water-retentive. Baskets were used for cooking until superseded by clay pots; the fibres were very tightly woven and any liquid they held would cause the material to swell and so retain it. Hot rocks were then put into the baskets to cook the contents.

Source: ‘Folk Art’, Susann Linn-Williams, pp. 182 – 83.

The Buffalo Dance at Hano, also known as the Tewa Buffalo Dance, is a traditional ceremonial dance performed by the Tewa people of the Hopi tribe in the village of Hano on First Mesa, Arizona. This dance holds profound cultural significance as it symbolizes the reverence for the buffalo, an animal essential to many Native American cultures for its provision of food, clothing, and tools. Typically performed to ensure a successful hunt, bring rain, and promote fertility and well-being within the community, the dance features participants dressed in elaborate costumes, including buffalo headdresses, painted bodies, and traditional garments adorned with feathers and beads. Accompanied by rhythmic drumming and chanting, the dancers mimic the actions and behaviors of buffalo, embodying the spirit and physicality of the animal. The Buffalo Dance involves various community members, from elders to the youth, facilitating the transmission of cultural knowledge and traditions. While some ceremonies are private, others may be open to the public, offering a glimpse into Tewa spirituality and customs. Performed during specific seasons or significant cultural events, the dance serves as a vital means of preserving and adapting traditional knowledge, ensuring the continuity of Tewa heritage and identity in a changing world

Susanne Page (March 3, 1938 – May 13, 2024) 

"Kachina dolls during a sunrise ceremony," 1980,

Ms. Page was in the midst of a 40-year career as a photographer for the United States Information Agency when she began creating vivid images of Native Americans and the flora and fauna that sustained them — work that embraced the beauty of the natural world and its profound spiritual significance to those Indigenous people. Her work appeared in magazines like National Geographic and Smithsonian and in several books.

The Adventures of the Young Spider Grandmother

A wildly tasteless young adult adaptation of the Hopi flood myth and the discovery of the Fourth World.

Have you heard new blue sun by Andre 3000?

There seems to be a connection with the Hopi tribes prophecy with an ancient ‘blue sun’ they called the Kachina, but also know a the star Sirius.

Take a look at the article and it’s prophecy and tell me what you think!

I think Andre is really in tune right now and his album is picking up on the frequency shift itself. However, it’s a good read so far and the album is beautiful made 💚 sends me joy when I need it.

However, since the passing of seasons is not accumulated in the Hopi temporal pattern into years, a Hopi experiences the repetitive nature of passing events and seasons, similarly to the Whorfian descriptions of a "perpetual getting later." This experience is summed up beautifully by Gipper: "[The Hopi] live in time, but not apart from it."

Vonnegut echoes the Tralfamadorians who proclaim that "all time is all time. It doesn't change. ... We are all bugs in amber."

from "Time is One": The Temporal Aspect of The Hopi

Language and Its Experimental Application in

Postmodernist Novels

The Words Of White Eagle

Hopi Indian leader White Eagle commented on the situation in 2021. ′′ This moment humanity is experiencing now can be considered a door or a hole. …The Words Of White Eagle

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Irene Yazzie can’t think of anyone who lives within 10 miles of her farm in the Navajo Nation who has drinking water flowing into their homes, hers included. In the far reaches of the reservation in Northeastern Arizona, near where the red-rock buttes of Monument Valley rise above the desert floor, indoor plumbing can feel like a luxury.

“I don’t know that people understand how hard of a life we have here,” said Yazzie, 71.

Help could be on the way if Congress approves a historic agreement reached between the Navajo, Hopi and San Juan Southern Paiute Tribes and the state of Arizona that would settle all of their outstanding water rights claims to the Colorado River Basin.

The deal, which all three tribes have now approved, marks a historic milestone for Indigenous nations that have fought for decades for their fair share of the water coursing through their ancestral lands.

Water claims with New Mexico and Utah had already been settled. Arizona had been the lone holdout. The 27,400-square-mile Navajo reservation, the nation’s largest, stretches across parts of all three states, with huge distances between towns and even individual homes.

While millions of people in the interior Southwest and Southern California draw from the Colorado River to sustain their cities and crops, Yazzie’s tribe has lacked pipelines connecting it to this precious — and overtaxed — waterway.

Several days a week, Yazzie or one of her two adult children makes the hour-long drive along bumpy dirt and gravel roads to reach a tribal community center that allows residents to pump water for a fee. Once back home, Yazzie has her son refill a cistern in the family’s yard.

“I’m always hauling water,” Yazzie said recently by phone.

Yazzie and her neighbors outside the Navajo hamlet of Dennehotso aren’t alone in living with water scarcity. An estimated 30% of households on the Navajo reservation don’t have indoor plumbing, and many who live in remote areas have to power their homes with generators because they’re also not connected to the power grid.

During a signing event in the tribal capital of Window Rock, Ariz., Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren said the water agreement is especially meaningful for residents on the reservation who are forced to haul water simply to access a basic necessity of life. In some cases, residents share water supplies with relatives and friends, while others get relief from nonprofits that offer free water system installations.

While the deal has been a long time in the making, the effort to bring safe drinking water into tribal members’ homes has taken on a new urgency in recent years due to droughts caused by climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and the battle among Southwestern states to secure their share of water from the river basin.

The country’s volatile politics and the looming presidential election are also top of mind for Indigenous leaders. The tribes will need both congressional approval and a presidential signature before the new agreement can take effect.

Some tribal officials see the Democratic administration of President Biden as more favorable to water rights claims and the protection of ancestral lands than Biden’s predecessor and presumptive Republican nominee, Donald Trump, though both as president have acted in support of expanding water access. In 2020, the Trump administration backed a deal between the Navajo Nation and Utah that settled all water rights claims in state and authorized about $220 million in federal funding to help build water infrastructure. Since Biden took office in 2021, his administration has directed hundreds of millions of dollars to Indigenous tribes for water projects.

In 2023, however, the majority-conservative U.S. Supreme Court dealt a blow to Navajo efforts to expand water access when it ruled that the federal government is not legally obligated to aid in the building of pipelines and other infrastructure to bring safe drinking water to reservation residents.

“Last year it was a hit to the belly that the (U.S. Supreme Court) was not going to help us,” Nygren said at the signing ceremony. “But now we have our own attorneys, water experts, hydrologists, and we can figure out how much water belongs to us.”

Under the finalized agreement, the Navajo will receive “a substantial amount of the Colorado River Upper Basin water, some Lower Basin water, all groundwater underlying the Navajo Nation, all surface water that reaches the Navajo Nation from the Little Colorado River, and all wash water that reaches the Nation south of the Hopi reservation,” according to the Navajo Nation Council.

The deal calls for the federal government to allocate $5 billion toward the building of critical infrastructure to link the territory’s surface water and groundwater sources to the communities that need them. It also gives the Navajo the flexibility to move Arizona water from the Colorado River’s upper basin to the lower basin and to divert water in New Mexico and Utah to Navajo communities in Arizona if that’s the closest source to those residents.

“Obviously, living on the Navajo reservation, we don’t have boundaries — this is just one piece of our homeland — so building out large infrastructure for water, sewer and electric lines, that’s huge,” said Joelynn Ashley, who chairs the Navajo Nation Water Rights Commission and represents areas that border the river.

Ashley said that while many Navajo have long depended on groundwater, contamination from uranium and arsenic, as well high salinity levels, make some of it unsafe to use. And some wells simply don’t yield enough water to meet demand.

“We just want to be able to use all of our water because we’ve got a lot of places where either water quantity or water quality is not there,” Ashley said.

Yazzie says the arrival of pipelines and water pouring from a tap in her home could not happen soon enough. She’s looking forward to the day when she doesn’t have to drive 16 miles each way to fill up on water for her family, as well as her 18 cows, 15 goats and two horses.

“It’s a hassle,” she said.

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celebrating my wolf kachina by giving him sanji to help him cook :)

Painted ceramic jar.

Nampeyo, 1900 - 1915.

Biden creates a new national monument near the Grand Canyon - https://www.npr.org/2023/08/08/1192622716/biden-national-monument-grand-canyon-arizona

The move protects lands that are sacred to indigenous peoples and permanently bans new uranium mining claims in the area. It covers nearly 1 million acres.

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"It will help protect lands that many tribes referred to as their eternal home, a place of healing and a source of spiritual sustenance," she said. "It will help ensure that indigenous peoples can continue to use these areas for religious ceremonies, hunting and gathering of plants, medicines and other materials, including some found nowhere else on earth. It will protect objects of historic and scientific importance for the benefit of tribes, the public and for future generations."

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The new national monument will be called Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monument. According to the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition that drafted a proposal for the monument, "Baaj Nwaavjo" means "where tribes roam" in Havasupai, and "I'tah Kukveni" translates to "our ancestral footprints" in Hopi.

all land is sacred (and should be returned) but this is good news.