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Hopi Indians

The Hopi lived in the Southwest of the United States and Northern Mexico. The name means peaceful and their rich ceremonies include dances and Kachina dolls.

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How did Native Americans survive?

The Native Americans hunted for wild creatures such as buffalo,deer,horses,rabbits and wild pig's Used some of the skins from the animals as clothes.

Native Americans used wooden clubs, Bow & Arrow,

Harpoons, Whips and even their bare hands as weapons.

In the Spring the Native Americans fished and Grew crops

to have lots of food during the harsh Winter.

In the Summer they played games and made clothing the Fall the Natives

Harvested their crops and collected firewood and collected as much food and

wood as possible. In the Winter time the Natives stayed in their shelters.

Hunters of the Tribes went out to hunt.

The Hunters Always have a 40% chance to get food.

What do hopi Indians look like?

Hopi have dark hair and eyes and medium dark skin. They have a look like other Pueblo people. In the past, Hopi women wore dresses with the left shoulder bare. They wore blankets as shawls when it was cold, they live at about 6000 ft. The worn moccasin and separate leggings. Unmarried women had very elaborate hairstyles called squash blossom style. Married women wore it in two long twisted bunches on each side of their head. Men wore breech-cloth or a kind of skirt, woven belt, moccasins and scarf headband and their hair in a bun called a homsoma. They wore blankets when it it was cold.

Later men wore their hair with straight bangs and to cut a little below chin length. They also later worn loose cotton pants and shirts

Today, except during ceremonies Hopi wear regular American modern clothes often of the same sort you would see any western rancher wear. At ceremonies, unless they are in it, people dress modestly.

Why did the hopi Indians live in sod huts?

That was the building material that was available to them.

What did the Hopi eat?

  1. rabbits,
  2. mammoth
  3. bison
  4. buffalo
  5. squash
  6. bean
  7. melon
  8. pumpkin
  9. fruit.

How did the Hopi tribe get to Arizona?

According to Hopi tradition the Hopi clans migrated after entering this, the fourth world. Each went to the farthest they could go in their chosen direction. There are many stories about their travels and how they finally made it to where the Hopi live today. That site has had Hopi living there for about 1100 years. The stories tell of the clans arriving over a period of 800 years. The name of various clans reflect their travels. There is no reason to doubt that Hopi clans in fact lived other places once. The so called Anasazi sites are clearly direct ancestors of today's Pueblo people including the Hopi. The Hopi language is related to ones as far south as southern Mexico and as far north as Wyoming. The last group to arrive we know about from historic times. After the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 some Rio Grande Tewa speakers moved to Hopi lands and were allowed to settle there. They still speak Tewa, Hopi and English to this day.

How did the Hupa Indian tribe travel?

The Hupa Indian Tribe was not nomadic as other California tribes were. The Hupa lived in redwood homes with small openings so bears could not get in the home.

What was the Hopi Indians lifestyle like?

The Hopi's name for themselves in Hopi is Hopituh Shi-nu-mu. This is often translated as the Peaceful Ones or Peaceful little ones. A better translation might be the Righteous, or Civilized or well Mannered Ones. They have lived for 1100 years on three mesas at about 6000ft in the high desert in what is now Arizona. They have matrilineal clans. They are an agricultural people whose principal crop was and is corn. They live in stone and adobe villages that the Spanish called Pueblos. There are about 20,000 Hopi today. They speak a Uto-Aztecan language and today English as well. The Hopi Nation is today 2,531.773 sq mi. They share many cultural traits with other Pueblos people but they resisted the Spanish more successfully and after 1680 when they killed and drove them off they were not colonized until the American period. They are famous for their beautiful pottery and jewelery. The are also known for their kachina carvings and rituals. the Hopi say that the differnet clans came to the mesas after traveling to all the four directions. They say they live their traditional life there in order to keep this fourth world in balance and going. To them the difficult life and many rituals is what keeps them and the whole world of the correct path.

They have repeatedly voted against casinos. They have a radio station, and run hotels and other properties. They receive royalties from the Black Mesa coal mine.

There are many famous Hopi potters and artists. Iris Nampeyo might be the most famous. Num-pa-yu, meaning "snake that does not bite" She was Hopi-Tewa

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What games and toys did the Hopi Indians have?

the hopi played stickball and played tribal games

What did the hopi grew?

The Hopi Indians ate corn, beans, pumpkin and other crops.

What animals did the hopi Indians hunt?

The Hopi Indians would hunt deer, rabbits, antelope and other small game that was in the area. The Hopi Indians grew a lot of their own and raised turkeys that they would also eat.

What kinds of ceremonies hopi have?

the kind of ceremonies the Sioux were sun dance ceremonies.

How do you build a house for a school project?

You can cut up old bottles to make windows for your house. Also use old scraps of paper to make grass or snow outside the house.

What location did the Hopi live?

They live where they have always lived for the last 1100 years. It is on three finger like mesas on the southern end of Black Mesa. This in what is now Northern Arizona, about 140 miles northeast of Flagstaff. It is at about 5,700 ft in the high desert plateau area.

What were the natural resources of the Southwest Indians?

The Miwok tribe used different resources depending on where they were from. There are five "tribelets" that have been identified based on locations of the villages. The Miwoks who lived near the Sierra Nevada Mountains, who are usually the more often thought of, used large rocks known as grinding stones to grind acorns and other nuts into meal (like corn meal). They used any other nontoxic roots, bulbs, seeds, and fungi as food as well. Grasshoppers and mussels were highly prized to those tribes to whom they were available (again, based on "tribelet" locations). The plains and mountain-dwelling Miwoks also used the trees around them (including cedar and redwood) to create roundhouses in the villages. They fished in nearby streams, as well. They hunted deer and elk for meat.

What region was the Hopi Indians from?

  1. Generally, the Hopi live in the southwestern US, but more specifically in northwestern Arizona and northeastern New Mexico.

What games did the anasazi Indians play?

The Anasazi were believed to have played games with a variety of small disk-like game pieces. They also, (possibly as part of ritual or as a type of game) smoked tubular pipes, blowing smoke plumes into the air, mimicking and attempting to solicit rain clouds in the sky.

What did the kachina dolls teach children?

The Hopi's originally made kachina dolls to represent dancers in different ceremonies. Kachina's include runners, hunters, animals, monsters, hero's, priests, clouds, the sun, plantation, vegtables, and other aspects of everyday life. There are many websites out there that would tell you more details about individual carvings, www.silvertribe.com seems to have alot of different dolls with alot of information on them, you can also try www.hopikachinadolls.com which has a reference guide of most kachinas.

The hopi's originally started making kachina dolls to give to their neices during ceremonies, and with time they started trading the dolls for necessaties, and today it has become an art!

What was the Hopi Indians main food source?

The staple food of the Hopi is corn. They planted 24 different types of corn and sometimes made cornbread. Although they lived in the desert they were expert farmers and managed to grow all sorts of crops such as beans, carrots, roots, and much more crops you can think of.

Does the hopi tribe still exist?

Yes, they definitely still exist in the same place in northeastern Arizona that they have lived for at least 1000 years. Their name for themselves is: Hopituh Shi-nu-mu, which means mannered or righteous or well behaved, or peaceful little ones. There are about 20,000 Hopi which is about as many as there have ever been. About 7,000 live on the Hopi Nation. About 75% speak Hopi which is in the Uto Aztecan family.

In 1582 there were reported to be 12,000 people in five villages. In 1910 there were 2,000 Hopi.

The Hopi Nation today is 2,531 square miles mainly on First, Second and Third Mesas which are on the southern edge of Black Mesa. Today there are 16 villiages. The annual tribal buget is about 21.8 million. The tribal economic development runs twelve businesses and gets coal mining royalties. They have repeatedly turned down the idea of casinos. There is a tribal website for some more information.

How were Hopi and Iroquois homes alike?

The Huron and Iroquois people built their homes to change with the seasons.In the summer, they removed some bark off of the roof to provide ventilation.The doors were built low to keep in the heat in the winter. Extra poles or bark were added in the winter to keep out the bad weather. The roof was curved so that the winter snow would fall off the roof. The Huron and Iroquois people had many ways to change their homes to suit the weather.

How did Hopi Indians celebrate?

Arrow Renewal, the Sun Dance, the Animal Dance, and the Scalp Dance