Today Micah Loma’omvaya will be lecturing on Hopi Indian running traditions at the Arizona State Museum. Loma’omvaya hopes that the presentation will provide insight into Hopi culture, and will ...
Corn goes back to their very creation story. As the Hopi people emerged into this world, the Creator gave them three things: a gourd of water, a planting stick and a short ear of blue corn. Expand ...
Bearing on bones, Congress passed the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act in 1990. Its mandate was sweeping. Among the law’s provisions, writes Wesley Bernardini, an archaeologist, ...
Hopi Katsina dolls are on exhibit at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art through May 4. Credit: Courtesy photo Hopi Katsina dolls, carved and colorfully decorated wooden figures, are more than just ...
KYKOTSMOVI — In the spring, as Mike Koiyaquaptewa prepared to plant corn, gusty winds whipped across the land, sending dust and sand billowing. He waited for a morning when the winds had died down, ...
MAYER — Some Indigenous farmers are trying to bring traditional food back to their communities. Michael Kotutwa Johnson, a farmer from the Hopi Tribe, is focusing on bringing Hopi corn back to the ...
Lamar Keevama, the new chairman of the Hopi Tribe, said when he looks at his people’s villages and communities, he sees great potential — but also feels the pressure of a rapidly changing world.
The Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art is providing visitors a special, in-depth look at the ancient art, craftsmanship and culture surrounding the Hopi tradition of katsina (kachina) carvings with “Hopituy ...
Michael Kabotie, a Hopi artist and jeweler who was an innovator in the American Indian fine arts movement, died Oct. 23 at a Flagstaff, Ariz., hospital from complications related to H1N1 influenza, ...
Growing up in Albuquerque Duane Koyawena loved to draw. "I did a lot of pieces that a lot of people always wanted," he says. "Like, 'can I have that? Can I have that?' Even my art teachers would ask ...
Corn goes back to their very creation story. As the Hopi people emerged into this world, the Creator gave them three things: a gourd of water, a planting stick and a short ear of blue corn. “And he ...