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...sole tribal commerce of the Hopis is a trailer court and a few arts-and-crafts shops. Yet the hope of the Hopis lies in their determination to improve their condition. They teach their children to value schooling so highly that the average daily attendance in their elementary schools is a surprising 90% ?a rarity among Indians. A score of older youngsters take a bus each day and make a 96-mile round trip to attend high school. Each day 50 adult Hopis get up at 5 a.m. to board a yellow bus and ride 65 miles to their...
...Since my English is not that good, I wasn't sure if I'd be playing a hippie or a Hopi. But I see it doesn't make any difference." Decked out as a Hopi Indian in headband, feathers and bear-claw necklace, Jean-Paul Belmondo probably created more of a spectacle in Tucson than he would have in Greenwich Village. In the film, Again, a Love Story, with Oscar-winning Director Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman), the Hopi bit is just a brief diversion in the adventures of Belmondo and Annie Girardot, who meet...
...number of people. Out in Newport Bay bobs his boat, Wild Goose II. Lesser men would have a yacht; Wayne's craft is a converted minesweeper. His house overflows with memorabilia and sentimental tributes from institutions as far apart as Good Housekeeping and the U.S. Marines. His collection of Hopi Indian kachina dolls is probably second only to Barry Goldwater's. Though the family car appears to be a standard Pontiac station wagon, it was custom built. "I wrote to the head man at G.M.," he beams, "and said, Tm gonna have to desert you if you don't stop...
...work-study programs abroad, in Scandinavia or Mexico, for instance. When they return, some teach courses (for credit) on topics in which they have become competent: a course on the American Indian was given last trimester by a sophomore who had spent his preceding work term among the Hopi Indians...
...environment, to his culture, and to himself. It ranges from courses in geography and geology to zoology-all backed up by six weeks of field work in the nearby desert. In their first trip to the desert, Prescott students unearthed pueblo ruins left by predecessors of the Hopi Indians...