Hopi police have arrested five people and set up road checkpoints to discourage hundreds traveling to a religious ceremony that has sparked threats of violence on Hopi reservation land north of Hard ...

A memorial bridge honoring the late Jack Welch, a dedicated Picture Canyon advocate, longtime site steward and former ...

I cover Indian Country as a reporter for NPR member station KJZZ from a base in Flagstaff, which is on the edge of the country's largest reservation. So, I've educated myself about Navajo and Hopi ...

Two words, "Kivavaq' Ki," hang on the wall at the front desk of the Moenkopi Legacy Inn and Suites. In the Hopi language, they mean "guest house" or "a home for travelers to rest." After traveling ...

MR. H. R. VOTH is known to all students of North American ethnology for his researches into the sociology and religion of various Pueblo groups, and now, owing to the resources of the Stanley ...

PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Prescott residents who call themselves the Smoki People no longer will dance with live snakes in their mouths in an annual rite detested by Indians who have called it sacrilege.

Northern Arizona tribes are following news of a Paris auction house that wants to put 70 artifacts sacred to the Hopi people up for sale. A hearing today Thursday will determine the legality of the ...

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 ...

KYKOTSMOVI, Ariz. -- 10 out of 400 may not seem significant, but to the families of the Hopi Code Talkers assigned to the Army and Army Air Forces during World War II, the significance is as immense ...

On Wednesday, Hopi Tribal Police arrested five elders at an intertribal religious ceremony on Hopi Tribal land nearBig Mountain, Arizona. They were charged with trespassing and holding a ceremony ...

Hopi Reservation, 1.6 million acres of mostly raw wilderness, is home to 12 autonomous villages As a tribe, the Hopi have been protective of their traditions and ways of life -- and their privacy The ...

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