Encyclopedia > Hopi

  Article Content

Hopi

Hopi is a Native American tribe who mainly live on the 1.5 million acre Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. The reservation is surrounded by the Navaho reservation.

A few Hopi live on the Colorado River Reservation, on the Colorado River in western Arizona, for information, see Mohave.

The traditional Hopi are organized into clans. When a man marries he becomes a member of his wife's clan. The Bear Clan is the most prominent clan. Tom Banyanca[?], now deceased, a member of the Bear Clan, was designated to transmit the Hopi Prophecy[?] to the outside world. The Spider Clan, who are linked with the infamous and evil Spider Woman, were a very low status clan.

It has been reported (in the New York Times) that the young people of Hopi are mad about Reggae and that concerts are frequently held there.

See also: Hopi mythology, Koyaanisqatsi



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
Thomas a Kempis

... name was Hemerken or Hammerlein, "little hammer." In 1395 he was sent to the school at Deventer conducted by the Brethren of the Common Life[?]. He became skilful as ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 42.2 ms