In baby talk, the Hopi word for "grandmother" is "so'o". In adult, it's "so('at)", and in this form it is a patrilineal reference. There is an excellent dictionary, "Hopiikwa Lavaytutuveni". Last I knew there were a few copies left at Amazon.com, if you can afford $750US. Otherwise, Google the Hopi Cultural Center. They have all the other available copies.
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Grandfather is puca and grandmother is puse
"My grandmother" in Cree is "nôhkom." However "your grandmother" in Cree is "kookum."
There are many ways of saying (my) grandmother in the Ojibwe language:naannookomnookomisninookomisnimaamaanaannigookomis
Hopi had a Tribal Council and had various branches of the organization. Also the Hopi had a traditional form of village administration, which includes a leader/ kikmongwi from a specific clan
The Hopi reservation is much smaller than the larger Navajo reservation that surrounds it, but is much richer in natural resources. The main natural resource of the Hopi's is coal.