Word: hopi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...high mesa framed by a fiery desert sky, the dancers appear: with eerie spectral masks, flesh painted in earthy clay and turquoise colors, and swathed in skins. The kachina priests whirl through the dusty streets of the village clacking tortoise rattles, chanting, waving yucca switches. Hopi legends say these "messengers of the Creator" have returned from the San Francisco mountains to begin anew the natural and spiritual cycle of planting and harvest. The desert will be blessed and purified and nourished by rain. An hour's drive north of the high mesa, on desolate scrubland wreathed by a dark...
Today the seemingly peaceful worlds of the Navajo woman and the Hopi dancers are colliding, and bloodshed is possible. In the northeast corner of Arizona, a century-old conflict between the neighboring Hopi and Navajo nations over an area of mesa and desert land the size of the state of Rhode Island is finally approaching its sad conclusion...