Modern Americans love thinking that the Hopi people of the Southwest represent the epitome of peacefulness. But in the year 1700, in the populous village of Awat’ovi, Hopi slaughtered Hopi by the ...

Without books and without writing the Hopi have held onto an extensive collection of folklore. These stories have been collected with the main purpose of preserving the ancient ways of the Native ...

According to Hopi legend, Spider Woman created twin beings from clay, a mixture of her saliva and bits of earth. One twin was charged with solidifying the Earth, the other with sending out sound, ...

NMAI copy 39088018620781 from the library of H. Paul and Jane R. Friesema. Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument (Ariz.) ...

An old arrowmaker's daughter, while at the stream, meets a brave from another tribe. They become enamored of each other in the sudden positive way of the savage, and agree to meet at sunset. The chief ...