hopi|hopis in English

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member of a Pueblo Indian tribe of northern Arizona (USA)

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1. Hopi Ceremonialism The Hopi have the help of the kachinas, spirit beings, who live with them for seven months of the year

2. Among the Hopi, Blackbird is a guide into the underworld.

3. Hopis painted Ruess and allowed him to participate in their traditional Antelope Dance, a high honor.

4. The Hopi community of Awat’ovi existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700―raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat’ovi, slaughtering their neighboring men, women, and children

5. The ancestors of the modern Pueblo peoples, including the Hopi, Zuni and the Puebloans, do not prefer the term “Anasazi.”

6. The Hopi who call themselves descendants of the Anasazi, changed the name of their ancestors from Anasazi to the “Hisatsinom”, which means the “Ancient Ones”.

7. He has filmed documentaries for the Public Broadcasting Service and now works at a high school on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona, coordinating college video classroom sessions across the state.

8. Extended- and flexed-Inhumation was a very common burial method found throughout central pre- and post-contact Mexico, as well as among historic Uto-Aztecans in the American southwest such as various O’odam/Pimans and the Hopi.

9. Among his works are Astronomies and Cultures in Early Medieval Europe (Cambridge, 1998) and numerous other publications on early medieval astronomy, the Astronomies of the Hopi and other Puebloan peoples, and on the interactions of astronomy with other cultural traditions

10. Other articles where Cradleboard is discussed: Southwest Indian: Socialization and education: Cradles and Cradleboards were used, especially during the first year of life; the Hopi viewed swaddling as the first of many periods of conditioning that helped the individual to gain self-control