Yaponcha, The Wind God : p. 103 YAPONCHA, THE WIND GOD 1 ANY years ago the Hopi were very much troubled by the wind. It blew and blew all the time. The sand drifted away from their fields, and they tried to plant their crops but the wind would sweep the soil away before the seeds would even start to germinate. Sadness...
The Kana A Kachinas Of Sunset Crater : p. 105 THE KANA-A KACHINAS OF SUNSET CRATER 1 AT old Mishongnovi the people lived and at the San Francisco Peaks the Kachinas were living. Over in the old town of Mishongnovi there was a young maiden who would not give up to any young man. Her parents were getting old and the father was not able...
Bibliography : p. 137 BIBLIOGRAPHY ANONYMOUS 1929 Archaeology of the Mexican Peoples (article on Central America. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 14th "Ed"., Vol. 5, pp. 134-135.) BANCROFT, HUBERT H. 1888 History of New Mexico and Arizona. The Bancroft Company, New York. BARTLETT, KATHARINE 1934 Spanish Contacts with...
How The Crow Clan Became Also The Kachina Clan : p. 79 HOW THE CROW CLAN BECAME ALSO THE KACHINA CLAN ORIGINALLY, the home of the Crow Clan was somewhere in the forest at the foot of the San Francisco Peaks. There were seven families and they were a dark people. Now, often in the night they would hear something moving about far away in the woods...
Chapter Ii. Masauwu : p. 24 CHAPTER II MASAUWU Now the chief was pleased to be on top, but of course, he was rather kind of suspicious for fear that some witches or wizards might have come through. They found that there was sunshine and birds and rather a prosperous looking world--sun, grass, flowers, trees...
Chapter V. How The Hopi Selected Shung Opovi : p. 35 CHAPTER V HOW THE HOPI SELECTED SHUNG-OPOVI FOR THEIR HOME THE Hopis had forgotten about the other tribes by this time and did not know where they were. They were hoping to see the Eastern Star so that they could settle down and not travel any more. Well, finally the Bear Clan did see...
Chapter Xii. How Some Hopis Resisted Sending : p. 60 CHAPTER XII HOW SOME HOPIS RESISTED SENDING THEIR CHILDREN TO SCHOOL AND THE TROUBLE THAT RESULTED OUT this time the agency was established at Keams Canyon 34 and of course the Hopis knew that this meant peace. So all the chiefs from every village went there and told the white man that they...
Chapter Vi. How The Crow Clan Arrived : p. 38 CHAPTER VI HOW THE CROW CLAN ARRIVED AND SETTLED AT MISHONGNOVI LONG before this time the Crow Clan had made a little settlement at what is called the first Mishongnovi, on the west side of Quang-oufovi Mesa, or Bald Mesa. The leader of this clan was called Mishong, or Black Man, on account...
The Ladder Dance At Pivahonkiapi : p. 115 THE LADDER DANCE AT PIVAHONKIAPI 1 Northwest of Oraibi, seven or eight miles, on that broad terrace which so conspicuously encircles many of the Hopi mesas, about 200 feet below the rim, lie the ruins of two pueblos. The nearest to Oraibi occupies a point which projects from the mesa and is...
Notes : p. 124 NOTES CHAPTER TAIL-PIECES. These little drawings represent the clan symbols of the various groups of clans mentioned in this book There are also several petroglyphic drawings introduced. The symbols found at the end of each chapter can be identified as follows: THE TRUTH OF A HOPI: Chapter...
Chapter X. The Return Of The Bahana, The White Man : p. 50 CHAPTER X THE RETURN OF THE BAHANA, THE WHITE MAN ALL THIS time the Hopi seemed to know that the real Bahana was coming, but they were warned to be careful and patient, for fear it might not be the true Bahana who would come after the Spaniard or Castilian. So if he ever did come they must...
The Legend Of Palotquopi : p. 85 THE LEGEND OF PALOTQUOPI 55 MANY years ago when the Hopis were living down at Palotquopi they were very progressive and prosperous, on account of having water, and having an irrigating system from the river which flows through that country. There they had taxation by means of doing some...
Chapter Xi. How The Hopi Marked The Boundary : p. 52 CHAPTER XI HOW THE HOPI MARKED THE BOUNDARY LINE BETWEEN THEIR COUNTRY AND THAT OF THE NAVAJO NOW with all this fighting and the Navajo coming in around them, the Hopi were always thinking of their boundary lines and of how they should be marked in some way. But how? What sort of a mark...
Chapter I. How The People Came Out : p. 7 TRUTH OF A HOPI CHAPTER I HOW THE PEOPLE CAME OUT OF THE UNDERWORLD ALAIKSAI!--Attention. Before anybody's memory the Hopi lived in the underworld, which was the original place of all human life. Here, in the beginning, all life and everything was good in peace and happy. The people were...
Chapter Vii. How A Family Quarrel Led : p. 40 CHAPTER VII HOW A FAMILY QUARREL LED TO THE FOUNDING OF ORAIBI LIKE all the other people, the Shung-opovi chief and his brothers were usually having some kind of trouble or argument over something, and about this time he found out that his younger brother was too bold. He was rather taking...
Title Page : TRUTH OF A HOPI Stories Relating To The Origin, Myths And Clan Histories Of The Hopi BY EDMUND NEQUATEWA Museum Of Northern Arizona Bulletin No. 8. [1936] Scanned , August 2003. J. B. Hare, Redactor. This Text Is In The Public Domain Because It Was Not Renewed In A Timely Fashion At The US...
Chapter Xiii. How Hotevilla And Bakabi Were : p. 63 CHAPTER XIII HOW HOTEVILLA AND BAKABI WERE FOUNDED WHILE the Shipaulovi hostiles were living over at Shung-opovi they were very much stronger against the school. The agent would send out policemen every once in awhile to try to get their leader, Tawahonganiwa. 39 Of course those policemen...
Chapter Viii. How The Spaniards Came To Shung : p. 42 CHAPTER VIII HOW THE SPANIARDS CAME TO SHUNG-OPOVI, HOW THEY BUILT A MISSION, AND HOW THE HOPI DESTROYED THE MISSION IT MAY have taken quite a long time for these villages to be established. Anyway, every place was pretty well settled down when the Spanish came. 19 The Spanish were first...
Chapter Iii. How The Mocking Bird Gave : p. 27 CHAPTER III HOW THE MOCKING BIRD GAVE THE PEOPLE MANY LANGUAGES AFTER awhile the chief said that they must move away from the kiva for fear that some of his people might become discouraged in some way, or lose courage and want to go back. They might die or want to die, so he didn't like...
Chapter Xiv. Youkioma : p. 69 CHAPTER XIV YOUKIOMA ON THE next day at this place they started to clear out under the trees and cut out the lower limbs so they could have shade. But of course, some of those men who did not really know what this was all about argued here and there and some thought they should go back...
Dr. Fewkes And Masauwu : p. 121 DR. FEWKES AND MASAUWU 1 THE BIRTH OF A LEGEND In the autumn of 1898, the late Dr. Fewkes, archaeologist of the Smithsonian Institution, was staying at Walpi, one of the Hopi Indian Pueblos. In the annual report of the director of the Bureau of Ethnology his visit is noted as follows: "...
Chapter Iv. The Hopi Decide To Seek A New : p. 30 CHAPTER IV THE HOPI DECIDE TO SEEK A NEW HOME. HOW CERTAIN CLANS RECEIVED THEIR NAMES ALL THIS time while the people were together, they learned to eat some of the wild seeds besides corn and different kinds of fruit and wheat. The mocking bird asked the chief to get all the different kinds...
The Ladder Dance At Old Shung Opovi : p. 111 THE LADDER DANCE AT OLD SHUNG-OPOVI 1 The present Hopi pueblo of Shung-opovi has occupied its present site since about 1700. Previous to that time, the pueblo straggled over the foothills at the mesa base. About a hundred yards west of this pueblo, over a sharp ridge, lay the old walled...
Foreword : p. 3 FOREWORD The stories related in this little book represent the origin, myths and history of a group of Hopi clans. They carry us from the very beginning of things down to modern times. One might say that they are the "Old Testament" of these people. They tell of their origin, their sacred...
Chapter Ix. Return Of The Spaniards To Hopi : p. 46 CHAPTER IX RETURN OF THE SPANIARDS TO HOPI COUNTRY. SHIPAULOVI FOUNDED AS A SANCTUARY AFTER all this had happened the Hopi were sure that the Spaniards were going to come back and make an attack on them and they figured that they would be wiped out. The chief of Shung-opovi thought there...
