Word: hopi
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-two red legs carrying eleven redskins were throbbing over the 480-mile Redwood Highway between San Francisco and Grant's Pass, Ore. The red lips of Miss Redwood Empire, "little fawn" of the Hopi Indians, greeted John Mad Bull of the Karook tribe when he staggered across the finish line last week-the winner of the marathon. He had covered the 480 miles (longest footrace ever held in the U. S.) in 7 days, 12 hours, 34 minutes. He was rewarded with a $1,000 prize, to which he added $50 to purchase an automobile...
Near Flagstaff, Dr. J. Walter Fewkes, chief Smithsonian ethnologist, has taken up summer quarters to study the Hopi ruin of Wupatki, which he first described 25 years ago and last year succeeded in having preserved as a national monument...
...later executive order, the President also established as a national monument two tracts of land 30 miles northeast of Flagstaff, Ariz. They contain ruins of buildings constructed by the Snake family of the Hopi Indians during prehistoric times. They are to be known as Wupatki (Great Rain Cloud House) National Monument...