Hopi Indian Clan #001

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Palatki Cultural Heritage Site...

A visit to the Hopi Indian Site in Verti Valley - The Honanki Ruins...

The Hopi are a Native American tribe, who primarily live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. According to the 2010 census, there were 19,327 Hopi in the United States. The Hopi language is one of 30 in the Uto-Aztecan language family.

The Hopi Tribe is a sovereign nation located in northeastern Arizona. The reservation occupies part of Coconino and Navajo counties, encompasses more than 1.5 million acres, and is made up of 12 villages on three mesas.

The Hopi tribe were villagers and farmers. Their villages were located in the lofty plateaus of northern Arizona. The Hopi tribe have kept their culture intact due to living in such isolated areas. The name Hopi means “peaceful ones” which aptly describe the members of this ancient American Indian tribe.

​Watch the serene culture of Native Americans come alive in a drive through Hopi and Navajo lands.  The Hopi Indians are Native Americans who have lived in Northwestern Arizona for thousands of years.  These Southwest American Indians inhabit an area called the Black Mesa, a plateau which rises 1,000 feet above the surrounding grasslands, and refer to this place as the center of the universe. They are entirely surrounded by the much larger, Navajo reservation.​

Hopi lived in pueblos or adobe houses made of dried clay and stone. They had flat roofs and multiple levels which were accessible by ladder. The bottom level was an underground chamber called a Kiva. It was primarily for religious ceremonies. The upper levels contained apartments so that the entire extended family could live in the home.​​They used carved rocks and animal bones, traps, and large sticks when hunting animals like deer, antelope and other game.

Tools included rakes and hoes and other farming implements, cotton looms, knives, arrowheads and adz. Adz allowed them to carve out big logs that could then be made into water-worthy canoes, an important means of transportation.

We experienced the Hopi Culture and toured their village.  The tour guides were very informative on the Hopi Tribal history and they showed us where they lived which was located in the side of cliffs and they occupied small caves.​

The Hopi Indians have lived on the high desert of northern Arizona for thousands of years. This barren but beautiful landscape was the place where Hopi gods directed them to build a number villages made up of pueblos—what we today would call stone apartment complexes. Here the Hopi managed to flourish by simply growing corn, beans, and squash with very little rainfall and almost no irrigation. 

One of the most intriguing Hopi legends involves the Ant People, who were crucial to the survival of the Hopi—not just once but twice. The so-called “First World” (or world-age) was apparently destroyed by fire—possibly some sort of volcanism, asteroid strike, or coronal mass ejection from the sun. The Second World was destroyed by ice—Ice Age glaciers or a pole shift. During these two global cataclysms, the virtuous members of the Hopi tribe were guided by an odd-shaped cloud during the day and a moving star at night that led them to the sky god named Sotuknang, who finally took them to the Ant People—in Hopi, Anu Sinom . The Ant People then escorted the Hopi into subterranean caves where they found refuge and sustenance. 

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This is a story our guide told us and I've taken picture and videos of parts of the tour.  It was very interesting and we've documented these stories and you can enjoy on this information on a video...