Most modern Pueblo peoples ( whether Keresans, Hopi, or Tanoans ) assert the ancient Pueblo did not " vanish ", as is commonly portrayed in media presentations or popular books, but migrated to areas in the southwest with more favorable rainfall and dependable streams.

There is also a tradition of the practice among the Hopi, and mentions of the custom among other tribes of New Mexico and Arizona.

In the kiva of both Ancient Pueblo Peoples | ancient and present-day Pueblo people s, the sipapu is a small round hole in the floor that represents the portal through which the ancestors Hopi mythology # Four Worlds | first emerged ( the larger hole is a fire pit, here in a ruin from the Mesa Verde National Park )

The Hopi people, whose name means ' Peaceful ' (" Hopi " is a contraction of / hopitu / ' peaceful '), have followed religious doctrine that is generally " anti-war ".

The first example of this kind of research is Whorf's observation of discrepancies between the grammar of time expressions in Hopi and English.

Powaqqatsi is a Hopi word meaning " parasitic way of life " or " life in transition ".

" It is speculated that their Hopi guides must have been reluctant to lead them to the river, since they must have known routes to the canyon floor.

It is based on structures that were built in an ancient Hopi settlement called Old Oraibi, located on the Third Mesa in eastern Arizona.

The Hopi language is Uto-Aztecan ; Zuñi is a language isolate ; Keresan is a dialect continuum that includes Acoma, Laguna, Santa Ana, Zia, Cochiti, Santo Domingo, San Felipe.

The Colorado River Indian Reservation includes parts of California and Arizona and is shared by members of the Chemehuevi, Hopi, and Navajo peoples.

The Hopi language is one of the 30 of the Uto-Aztecan language family.

The Hopi Reservation is entirely surrounded by the much larger Navajo Reservation.

Oraibi is one of four original Hopi villages, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited villages within the territory of the United States.

The Hopi tribe is federally recognized and headquartered in Kykotsmovi, Arizona.

Peabody Western Coal Company is one of the largest coal operations on Hopi land, with long-time permits for continued mining.

The Hopi Economic Development Corporation is the tribal enterprise tasked with creating diverse, viable economic opportunities.

The name ' Hopi ' is a shortened form of their autonym, Hopituh Shi-nu-mu (" The Peaceful People " or " Peaceful Little Ones ").

The Hopi Dictionary gives the primary meaning of the word " Hopi " as: " behaving one, one who is mannered, civilized, peaceable, polite, who adheres to the Hopi way.

He argued that when Whorf was describing in English how a Hopi speaker's view of time was different, he was in fact translating the Hopi concept into English and therefore disproving the existence of linguistic relativity.

Many other cultures contain belief in a similar concept: notably, the Q ' ero Indians in Peru, as well as the Hopi Indians of Arizona.

To be Hopi is to strive toward this concept, which involves a state of total reverence and respect for all things, to be at peace with these things, and to live in accordance with the instructions of Maasaw, the Creator or Caretaker of Earth.

While this view of Hopi mythology is deeply controversial, certainly the Hopi have much in their culture and mythology which emphasized the importance of the feminine.

Maize is also vital to Hopi subsistence and religion.

However, Hopi religion was and is presided over by men, as were most political functions within the villages.

Masauwu told them that eventually the Pahana would return bringing the broken-off corner of the stone, but if in the meantime a Hopi leader accepted a false religion, he must assent to having his head cut off as drawn on the stone.

The similarity of many aspects of Hopi religion to that of the Aztecs to the south strongly suggest the latter to many scholars.

Within Hopi religion, the kachinas are said to live on the San Francisco Peaks near Flagstaff, Arizona.

Cather portrays the Hopi and Navajo sympathetically, and her characters express the near futility of overlaying their religion on a millennia-old native culture.

The Zuni have, however, borrowed a number of words from Keresan, Hopi, and Pima pertaining to religion and religious observances.

" The spiritual teachings to the Hopi attributed to Sotuknang are functionally equivalent to those of the Great Mystery as " known " by all other Turtle Island nations in that they specifically guide the individual and the nation as opposed to creating the speculative religious framework for universalism, conquest and domination enshrined in a ritualistic faith or dogmatic religion.

Mennonite missionary Heinrich R. Voth shared his knowledge of Hopi religion.

Through the Rangers, Hay was first exposed to Native American spirituality when he witnessed members of the Hopi tribe performing rituals and, later, performing traditional dances for the group.

Niman traced the supposed Hopi prophecies to the 1962 book Warriors of the Rainbow by William Willoya and Vinson Brown, which compares prophecy of major religious sects throughout the world and tales of visions from North American natives and which he describes as purveying " a covert anti-Semitism throughout, while evangelizing against traditional Native American spirituality.

The Hopi tribe earns most of its income from natural resources.

" In the past, Hopi sometimes used the term " Hopi " and its cognates to refer to the Pueblo peoples in general, in contrast to other, more warlike tribes.

The Hopi Indian tribe ( in what is now the U. S .), according to Alice Schlegel, had as its " gender ideology ... one of female superiority, and it operated within a social actuality of sexual equality.

Schlegel explains why there was female superiority as that the Hopi believed in " life as the highest good ... the female principle ... activated in women and in Mother Earth ... as its source " and that the Hopi " were not in a state of continual war with equally matched neighbors " and " had no standing army " so that " the Hopi lacked the spur to masculine superiority " and, within that, as that women were central to institutions of clan and household and predominated " within the economic and social systems ( in contrast to male predominance within the political and ceremonial systems )", the Clan Mother, for example, being empowered to overturn land distribution by men if she felt it was unfair, since there was no " countervailing ... strongly centralized, male-centered political structure ".

The name " Kokopelli " may be a combination of " Koko ", another Hopi and Zuni deity, and " pelli ", the Hopi and Zuni word for the desert robber fly, an insect with a prominent proboscis and a rounded back, which is also noted for its zealous sexual proclivities.

Like the oral traditions of many other societies, Hopi mythology is not always told consistently and each Hopi mesa, or even each village, may have its own version of a particular story.

The smaller section comprises only 3. 8 percent of the Hopi Reservation's land area and 13. 2 percent ( 916 persons ) of its population.

The Hopi town of Moenkopi lies directly to its southeast.

Tuba City drew Hopi, Navajo and Paiute Indians to the area because of its natural springs.

Gallup is sometimes called the " Indian Capital of the World ", for its location in the heart of Native American lands, and the presence of Navajo, Zuni, Hopi and other tribes.

They traveled by way of Zuñi, the Hopi pueblos, and the Bill Williams River to the Colorado River, and descended that river to its mouth in the Gulf of California in January 1605, before returning along the same route to New Mexico.

The site, while recognized as a Hopi traditional cultural property, is on land now owned by the Navajo Indians, the result of a decades-old dispute that saw these neighboring tribes fighting over land each considered its own.

A comprehensive Hopi-English dictionary edited by Emory Sekaquaptewa and others has been published, and a group called the Hopi Literacy Project has focused its attention on promoting the language.

A community of Arizona Tewa live on First Mesa, and its members speak Tewa, in addition to a variety of Hopi and English and Spanish.

The Pecos Pueblo, 50 miles east of the Rio Grande pledged its participation in the revolt as did the Zuni and Hopi, 120 and 200 miles respectively west of the Rio Grande.

After its third move, it now resides at Hopi Hari in Brazil as Katapul.

She created a series of landmark hotels and commercial lodges through the southwest, including the La Posada, the 1922 Phantom Ranch buildings at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and five structures on the south rim of the Grand Canyon: the Hopi House ( 1905 ), Hermit's Rest ( 1914 ), the observatory Lookout Studio ( 1914 ), the 70-foot Desert View Watchtower ( 1932 ) with its hidden steel structure, and the Bright Angel Lodge ( 1935 ); Colter decorated, but did not design, the El Tovar Hotel.

This date became the subject of speculation by Frank Waters, who devotes two chapters to its interpretation, including discussion of an astrological chart for this date and its association with Hopi prophecies in Mexico Mystique: The Coming Sixth World of Consciousness ( 1975 ).