The cliff painting of the Mesa Verde and other areas are said to be "guides" for their warriors and they claim that the "snake-shaped" mounds in the eastern United States were built by their ancestors. Hopi Indians are one of the Pueblo Indian tribes. About 3500 Hopi live on the Hopi reservation in northeastern Arizona. One village, Oraibi, is one of the oldest continuously inhabited villages in the United States. It was founded about 800 years ago.

The Hopi reservation was established in 1882, but until the beginning of the 20th century the people were practically independent of government authority. Since that time official supervision, assistance, and sometimes-blundering interference in harmless religious and personal customs, h

The Hopi are a deeply religious people. They follow divine instructions and prophecies received from the caretaker of this world, Maasaw. Their religion teaches them a life way of humility, cooperation, respect and earth stewardship. They practice the religion with different ceremonies throughout the year, which are timed according to phases of the moon and solstices of the sun.

During their stay, the katsinam appear among Hopi people in physical form, singing and dancing in ceremonies. On Third Mesa the katsinam arrive in December while at the First and Second Mesa they arrive in February at the Bean Dance Ceremony. Night dances are held until the end of March, followed by day dances from May to July. Virtually no weekend goes by during this period without a katsina dance in at least one Hopi village. Most dances start shortly after sunrise (mostly on Saturday and/or Sundays) and continue intermittently throughout the day, with breaks for lunch and rest periods. The ceremonies usually end at dusk. Several of the villages often hold dances on the same day.

Dawa called his messenger, Gogyeng Sowuhti, Spider Grandmother, and told her to go down and prepare the creatures for a change. She went to them and said, "Dawa, who made you, is unhappy because you do not understand the meaning of life. He will make a new world and perfect all living things. Prepare to leave for the Second World."

From various quarters, the Hopi have brought with them in their migration from other regions or have borrowed from other pueblo a mass of religious practices. They recognize a very large number of deities, and of none can it be said that he is supreme. The explanation may be that each was the principal deity of some one group that entered into the making of the present Hopi people. The religious and ceremonial life of the Hopi centers in the kiva, which is simply a room, wholly or partly subterranean and entered by way of ladder through an opening in the flat roof.

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