Is hopi a sub religion of Christianity?

Answer 1

No, Hopi is not a sub religion of Christianity. It is an ancestral Indigenous religion that was practiced long before the Arrival of Europeans to the Americas. The Spanish were the first Europeans to make contact with the Hopi in the early 1500's and for nearly a century after they attempted to convert the Hopi to Christianity forbidding the practice of their traditional religion on pain of death, and forcing the people into a type of economic and social slavery. Yet in 1680 the Hopis as well as the other surrounding pueblo peoples revolted against the Spanish and drove them out of the Southwest back into Mexico, destroying all evidence of the Spanish--their churches, their settlements etc. Though the Spanish did eventually reclaim the territory a decade and a half later the Spanish did not attempt to convert the Hopi and the other pueblo Native Americans like before, and so the Hopi and other pueblos continued their native practices and religions that persist to this day, even amid continued pressure from Christian proselytizing and missionary efforts this time from the United States.