Word: hopi
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Relocation of the Navajo is the Government's unhappy answer to a quarrel that predates the white man's arrival in the American West. The Hopi, a band of sedentary farmers, crafted the earliest of their distinctive apartment-like stone dwellings atop steep mesas in northern Arizona almost a millennium ago. The Navajo, a fast-growing tribe of hunters turned shepherds, arrived about 500 years later but proved more aggressive and dynamic. Eventually, the Navajo and their herds outnumbered and surrounded the Hopi and their crops. Hopi Chairman Ivan Sidney, 37, portrays his tribe as a peaceful people provoked...
...federal action involves divvying up 1.8 million acres of disputed grazing and farm land in northeast Arizona. At the heart of the controversy is a Navajo settlement in what is supposed to be Hopi territory: Big Mountain, a juniper-dotted ridge about 50 miles east of Grand Canyon National Park. It is a place of endless sagebrush and soaring golden eagles, undergirded by rich seams of coal and uranium, where a band of perhaps 1,000 or so Navajo has vowed to resist relocation. "To move away is to disappear," says Pauline Whitesinger, an elderly resister with an easy smile...
...concept of land ownership is foreign to both the Hopi and Navajo traditions (despite the tribes' vigorous assertions of territorial rights), a point little appreciated by successive white administrators. Left alone, the stronger Navajo, who now number about 170,000, would have prevailed over the Hopi, who now number about 10,000. Instead, the U.S. Government has struggled to mediate the dispute for more than a century but so far has only prolonged...
Among the hand holders: Jazzercise enthusiasts along Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles, 500 Little Leaguers at Three Rivers Stadium in Pittsburgh, scores of drum majorettes, dozens of disabled teenagers, gatherings of Hopi and Navajo tribesmen, a family of robots, some 20 parachutists, 600 guests celebrating an Italian wedding, a mile-long chain of blind people whose places were paid for by Singer Lionel Richie, a group of Hell's Angels, and hundreds of the destitute themselves. Along the way: concerts, frat parties, even a couple of weddings. Everyone wanted to get in on the act: a group of lifers...
Tribe is working closely with volunteers at the Phillip Brooks House (PBH) and will probably have enough money to begin the soup kitchen on wheels sometime this summer. Anyone interested in volunteering their time or making tax-deductible donations to HOPI can do so by calling 661-HOPI...