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How the Hopi Indians Reached Their World is the creation story of the Native American Hopi nation (the Hopi tribe of Arizona) located today within the Navajo Nation reservation. The legend details the ascent of the Hopi from below the earth...

Homolovi or Homolovi State Park (formerly: Homolovi Ruins State Park) is a cluster of archaeological sites that contains the ruins of eight pre-Columbian Ancestral Puebloan (Anasazi) and Hopi pueblos in addition to some 300 other remains...

The Kachina (also “Katsina”) cult refers to the specific religious practices centered on the kachina, which is a spiritual entity and divine messenger of the Puebloan peoples as well as the Hopi, Zuni, Tewa, and Keresan tribes in what is...

An example of a Hopi Kachina doll, used in the Kachina cult of that culture. Wood and pigment paint, 19th century CE or earlier. (Brooklyn Museum, New York)

Hopi Youth Dancers at Archaeology Discovery Days 2017 at V Bar V Heritage Site. Archaeology Discovery Days at V Bar V Heritage Site is an annual event held during Arizona Archaeology and Heritage Awareness Month. The outdoor event features...

Kokopelli and Kokopelli Mana as depicted by the Hopi or Two Hopi Kachinas: Kookopölö, left, and his female counterpart Kokopölmana, right, from Hopi Katcinas Drawn by Native Artists, by Jesse Walter Fewkes, 1903.

Traditional Hopi Village of Walpi, Arizona, USA. Photograph by Ansel Adams, 1941. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.

Abandoned stone house and surrounding landscape of the Hopi village of Oraibi, in northern Arizona, USA. Photograph by Promking, 2010.

Official Website: https://to.pbs.org/2DdzTCv | #NativeAmericaPBS Many Native American peoples share a belief that they emerged from the earth. For the Hopi and other Pueblo peoples, after they emerge they meet the caretaker of the earth...

The iconic image of Kokopelli, the flute-playing kachina spirit of the Pueblo peoples, specifically the Hopi, is easily the most recognizable figure from Native American culture in the Southwest United States but, according to traditional...