The Hopi are a group of Shoshonean-speaking American Indians living in the well-known pueblo type of "primitive apartment-house" towns placed on and at the foot of three mesas in northeastern Arizona. They have been settled there since about 1200 A.D. (Aberle). The original Hopi reservation was established by executive order in 1882 (Born A Chief). The history of the Hopi, though it contains little aggressive warfare, is full of conflict with the Spanish, with non-Pueblo Indians, and with the Americans.
The Hopis are a farming and herding tribe. They live a life full of uncertainties though because of the scarce and un
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