Hopi Indian Reservation
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The Hopi (the Indian term is Moki, the "peaceable people"), numbering only about 7,000, belong to the group of sedentary Pueblo Indians (Shoshones) and are totally different from the Navajo, within whose territory their small reservation lies. As village dwelling, tillers of the soil and cattle rearers the Hopi inevitably came into conflict with the Navajo, ever looking for new pastures for their herds. Living in seclusion for more than a thousand years in pueblos on three large tabular hills (the First Mesa, Second and Third Mesas) the Hopi Indians have a common tribal council, but the individual villages are largely self-governing under a hereditary or elected chief. The Hopi are very reserved in their dealings with outsiders and try to keep "palefaces" away from their traditional religious ceremonies (the fire dance, the eagle dance, the masked dances of the kachina spirits). Before visiting a village the permission of the chief must be obtained, and this is not readily granted; and taking photographs and making sketches are frowned upon.
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Address:
Hopi Indian Reservation, Box 123, Kykotsmovi, AZ 86039-0123, United States
Phone: 1 (928) 734-3283, Fax: 1 (928) 734-3289
Phone: 1 (928) 734-3283, Fax: 1 (928) 734-3289
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