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Before the Navahos came, Pueblo forebears of the Hopi and Zuni Indians lived in the canyon. They turned its widest caves into apartment houses big enough for hundreds of families each, and decorated the walls with mysterious figures such as the rabbits at left. Still farther back in the darkness of the canyon's Stone Age lived the so-called Basket Makers, who had no pottery and no bows & arrows. Like Europe's earliest painters, they pictured their own hands flat against the rock, as if to say simply: "We were here...
Future TV journeys of Adventure: to Brazil's Mato Grosso, to the Hopi Indians...
...Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Glenn L. Emmons, 57, a Gallup, N.Mex. banker and longtime friend and popular partisan of the Navajo, Hopi, Zuni, Ute. Apache and Pueblo tribes in his neighborhood. As commissioner, said Emmons, he will aim to "liquidate the trusteeship of the Indians as quickly as possible," and make them self-supporting citizens...
...writers frantically seek fresh, unique unwritten about harbingers of Spring. One used to be able to point to Braves Field, and connect the activity there with the first swallow. But the Braves are no longer in Braves Field. Perhaps one could point to the occult Rain Dance of the Hopi Indians as the first indication of the new season. But, while rain is a common feature of a Cambridge Spring, Hopi Indians are exceedingly rare, and one could never find enough together at one time to perform their Rain ceremony anyway. Ball bearing planting at the foot of the world...
Imitating an old Hopi Indian fertility rite, 300 eager, but determined Wellesley seniors weathered competition from outsiders and other obstacles to take part in the annual May Day hoop race yesterday...