Hopi Tribe

United States Arizona Indians of Arizona

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The Hopi Tribe is primarily associated with the state of Arizona.

Ancestral homeland: First Mesa, Second Mesa and Third Mesa all part of the Black Mesa on the Colorado Plateau between the Colorado River and the Rio Grande.

Clans: Snake, Badger, and Antelope

Population: 1990: 7,300

Tribal Headquarters

Hopi Tribe
P.O. Box 123
Kykotsmovi, AZ 86039
Phone: 1.928.734.3100
Fax: 1.928.734.6665

The Official Website of the Hopi Tribe

History

• Hopi Indian Tribal History
• [http://curtis.library.northwestern.edu/curtis/viewPage.cgi?showp=1&size=2&id=nai.12.book.00000016&volume=12 Northwestern University Digital Library Collections, Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indians; The Hopi, Volume 12, Page 3.
• Canyons, Cultures and Environmental Change, Northern Arizona University, Hopi
• Hopi

Brief Timeline

• 1583: Spanish explorer, Antonio de Espejo
• 1598: Juan de Onate and men, had the Hopi swear allegiance to the Spanish Crown
• 1629: First missionaries encountered the tribe
• 1680: Pueblo Rebellion occured when the Spanish tried to eliminate all Kachina worship. 
• 1700: Hopi traditionalist killed all the Christian men in Awatovi and destroyed the village. Many living in Awatovi had converted to Catholic faith.
• 1882: Hopi Reservation established

Reservations

Hopi Tribe, Arizona (Reservation)

First Mesa

• Walpi
• Sichomovi
• Hano

Second Mesa

• Shungopovi
• Mishongnovi
• Shipaulovi

Third Mesa

• Oraibi
• New Oraibi
• Hotevilla
• Bakabi
• Upper and Lower Moenkopi

The Hopi Tribe was under the jurisdiction of the Arizona Superintendency

Records

Correspondence and Census

Tribe	Agency	Location of Original Records	Pre-1880 Correspondence M234  RG 75 Rolls 962 Roll Numbers	FHL Film Numbers	Post-1885 Census  M595 RG 75 Rolls 693 Roll Numbers	FHL Film Numbers
Hopi	Hopi Agency, 1910-56	Los Angeles	-		Rolls 188-95	576876-884
Hopi	Western Navajo Agency, 1902-17	Los Angeles	-		Rolls 640-45	583099-104

Vital Records

• Hopi Agency M595, births and deaths 1925-1931, FHL Film: FHL 576881
• Western Navajo  M595, births and death 1925-1933, FHL Film: FHL 583103 and births and deaths 1928-1934,  FHL Film: FHL 583104

Important Web Sites

• Constitution and By-Laws the Hopi Tribe Arizona, approved December 1936.
• Hopi Cultural Preservation Office Home Page
• Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., Hopi Tribe

Bibliography

• Seaman, P. David. P. David Seaman Collection. 1974. WorldCat 70069014
• James, Harry Clebourne. Pages from Hopi History. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1974. WorldCat 1147918
• Bernardini, Wesley. Hopi History in Stone: The Tutuveni Petroglyph Site. Tucson: Arizona State Museum, University of Arizona, 2009. WorldCat 320972410
• Ellis, Florence Hawley. The Hopi: Their History and Use of Lands. Albuquerque, N. Mex: University of N. Mexico, 1970. WorldCat 2215137
• Eggan, Fred. The Kinship System of the Hopi Indians. Chicago, Ill: Distributed by the University of Chicago Libraries, 1936. WorldCat 27638341
• Bowen, Jeff. Western Navajo Reservation Navajo, Hopi and Paiute Indians Birth and Death Rolls, 1925-1933. Signal Mountain, Tenn: Mountain Press, 1996. WorldCat 37701175
• Bowen, Jeff. 1932 Hopi and Navajo Native American Census: With Birth and Death Rolls. Hixson, TN: Bowen Genealogy, Native American Research and Publications, 1997. WorldCat 37813701
• Clinton-Tullie, Verna. Research of the Navajo-Hopi Tobacco Clan of Finger Point-Star Mountain of Teesto Chapter Community and Polacca, Awatovi and Sichomovi of First Mesa. Window Rock, Ariz.?: s.n, 1981. WorldCat 20972675
• Clinton-Tullie, Verna. The Tobacco People from Awatovi. Window Rock, Ariz.?: s.n, 1981. WorldCat 20972475
• United States. Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940. Hopi. Washington, D.C.: The Bureau, 1924. WorldCat 34771986

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