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TNB->Hopi Tribe: Hopis, Navajos end 40-year battle over Bennett Freeze Area
Posted on Friday, November 03 @ 11:20:10 PST (3704 reads)

AUTHORS: Mark Shaffer and Betty Reid

An accord has been reached between the Navajo and Hopi tribes to end a bitter 40-year struggle over Hopi religious sites on more than 700,000 acres of the western Navajo Reservation.

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TNB->Hopi Tribe: Hopi Kachina Dolls (Katsina) or Tihu and the katsina society ceremonial dances
Posted on Wednesday, December 01 @ 01:17:37 PST (16833 reads)

Hopi kachinas or katsinas.. KEYWORDS: hopi kachina hopi katsina kachinas hopi ceremonial dolls hopi spirit dolls hopi religious dolls kachina dance

Hopi kachinas (or katsinas as the Hopi people call them) are supernatural beings who live among the evergreens of the San Francisco Peaks south of the Hopi Mesas, and at the Spring of the Shadows to the east. From these cloud homes, they travel to the villages several times a year and appear in many elaborate kachina dances.

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TNB->Hopi Tribe: Visiting the Three Mesas of the Hopi Reservation
Posted on Tuesday, November 30 @ 20:48:09 PST (19487 reads)

The Three Mesas of the Hopi Reservation.. KEYWORDS: Hopi travel guide hopi etiquette hopi ceremonies first mesa second mesa third mesa Hopi Reservation hopi visitor's guide travel tips visiting native american reservations hopi villages oldest continuously inhabited village in North America

The Hopi villages are divided into three areas called mesas. Here is a visitor's guide to the mesas which comprise the Hopi Reservation and some tips on travel accomodations and etiquette when visiting these areas.

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TNB->Hopi Tribe: Reading the rocks: Hopi history in petroglyphs
Posted on Monday, March 10 @ 14:40:37 PST (9572 reads)

KEYWORDS: Hopi petroglyphs ancient Indian tribes Wind Mountain petroglyphs at Three Rivers Hopi tribes of New Mexico and Arizona ancient site of Casas Grandes in Mexico Joe Ben Sanders sacred Hopi lands archeology of New Mexico Jornada Mogollon Hopi Tularosa Basin Hopi oral traditions Bear Clan Coyote Clan Parrot Clan Kachina Clan clan clans three-rivers site Hopi stories legend legends Casas Grandes Spider clan Snake clan ceremonial deer Moki Mochi Hopi word for awl Three Rivers petroglyph Petroglyphs of the pueblo Casa Grande telescopic vision archeology books Palatkwapi petroglyph poster petroglyph art print

AUTHOR: Elva K. Osterreich, Staff Writer for the Alamogorda News

Joe Ben Sanders has spent 27 years looking at the Wind Mountain petroglyphs at Three Rivers, N.M. He has made controversial connections with the Hopi tribes of New Mexico and Arizona and the ancient site of Casas Grandes in Mexico.

Sanders believes that the ancient Mogollon and the Hopi share the same story, that they are indeed the same people. He believes that the ancestors of the Hopi gradually migrated through southern New Mexico on the way to sacred Hopi lands.

"We have three archeologies not three cultures," Sanders said of the currently held archeological belief that three different groups of peoples roamed early New Mexico.

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