Hopi

On the Navajo and Hopi reservations, the disdain some had for McCain stemmed from a massive relocation of tribal members and water rights.

Editors Sheridan, Koyiyumptewa, Daughters, Brenneman, Ferguson, Kuwanwisiwma, and Lomayestewa present readers with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles focused on the history between the Spanish and the Hopis from 1540 to 1679.

charitable foundation said Wednesday that it was the anonymous bidder that paid $530,000 for 24 Native American masks in a Paris auction and will return them to the Hopi Nation in Arizona and the San Carlos Apache tribe.

"I am also very concerned about the Hopis' sadness, but you cannot break property law," he said.

"This is one of the hot spots we've found at the dump," said Lionel Puhuyesva, director of the Hopi Tribe's Water Resources Program, pointing to a well that monitors groundwater under the dump.

As non-Hopis, including Navajos, at and near Hopi saw the economic success of the carvings, the Hopi techniques were passed on; it is not uncommon for Hopis to teach their Navajo or other friends to carve.

The same basic teaching methodology was applied to the course of instruction in the Army as on the Navajo and Hopi reservations, but in the latter two cases, methods were shaped in response to the cultures of the students.

Peabody employs about 15 Hopis, and provides about $7.7 million in annual royalties to the tribe, a huge chunk of the budget for a relative]y impoverished tribal treasury.

A kachina is a spirit that is part of the Hopi religion.

When the first Snowbowl proposal was under consideration in 1979, Forest Service representatives met with Hopi elders in Washington, DC.

Last summer, I journeyed to the Hopi mesas to show a rough cut of the documentary to the Hopis who had participated in the making of the film.

Navajos and Hopis even boiled the resin with sheep and goat hooves to make glue to repair broken pottery or cement turquoise into silver settings.

The challenge: What's an ecclesiologist going to do in a diocese with a population of less than one Catholic per square mile (40,000 Catholics in 55,000 square miles); where in the decades immediately ahead most of the pastors and women religious will have retired where half the Catholics -- Navajos and Hopis particularly -- don't live anywhere near a town.

His evocation of Monument Valley is an imaginary one, with panels simultaneously depicting the Hoover Dam, dancing Hopis and Navajos, John Ford shooting the 1956 film The Searchers, saguaro cactus forests, and desert highways stretching off into the far distance.

"You find people living around the reservations will go and see the Hopis rather than their own GP.