Hopi Tribe

United States Arizona Indians of Arizona

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The Hopi Tribe is primarily associated with the state of Arizona. The Tribe was originally referred to as the "Moqui" or "Moki" Indians, although this term applied to most of the pueblo Indians of what is now northern Arizona and northern New Mexico.

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

Census Records

U.S.

Indian Census Roll

• Roll 188: Hopi, 1924-26
• Roll 189: Hopi and Navajo Indians, 1927-29
• Roll 190: Hopi and Navajo Indians, 1930
• Roll 191: Hopi and Navajo Indians, 1931
• Roll 192: Hopi and Navajo Indians, 1932 (with birth and death rolls, 1925-31)
• Roll 193: Hopi and Navajo Indians, 1933
• Roll 194: Hopi and Navajo Indians, 1934-36
• Roll 195: Hopi, 1937-39
• Roll 272: Navajo (Moqui Pueblo, or Hopi, and Navajo Indians), 1885 (with 1891 general schedule, and letter, 1898)
• Roll 640: Western Navajo (Hopi Indians and Navajo and Paiute Indians for 1929), 1905 (letter), undated Hopi roll, 1915-20, 1922, 1923 (letter), 1924-27, 1929.
• Roll 641: Navajo, Hopi and Paiute Indians, 1930
• Roll 642: Navajo, Hopi and Paiute Indians, 1931
• Roll 643: Navajo, Hopi and Paiute Indians, 1932
• Roll 644: Navajo, Hopi, and Paiute Indians, 1933 (with birth and death rolls, 1925-33)
• Roll 645: Navajo, Hopi, and Paiute Indians, 1934-35

Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

• 75.5.1: Records of the Office of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs: Textual Records.  This contains records relating to the Hopi-Navajo land dispute, 1969-72.
• 75.6.9: Records of the Phoenix, AZ, Area Office: Textual Records (In Denver).  This contains contracts, policies, and plans of operations for the Colorado RIver, Hopi, Nevada, Papago, Pima, San Carlos, and other agencies, 1941-63.
• 75.19.46: Records of the Hopi Indian Agency, AZ: Textual Records (in Los Angeles).  This contains letters sent, 1910-12.  Journal of agency activities ("Office Diaries"), 1911-16.  Central subject files, 1926-56.  Letters sent regarding supplies and property, 1911-14.  Employee appraisal reports, 1911-13.  Individual Indian money (IIM) ledgers, 1936-51.  Census schedule of the Hopi Indians of Western Navajo Agency and related records, 1922-24.  Register of pupils, 1907-11.

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

Land Records

All land is tribally owned,  2,472,254.26 acres

Vital Records

• Hopi Agency M595,births and deaths 1925-1931, FHL Film: FHL Film 576881
• Western Navajo M595, births and death 1925-1933, FHL Film: FHL Film 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
• United States. Indian Census Rolls, 1885-1940. Moapa River ; Moqui. Washington, [D.C.]: National Archives, 1965. WorldCat 44389251
• New Mexico State Records Center and Archives. New Mexico archives: facsimiles of manuscripts at Santa Fe. 1621. WorldCat 710854513
• Wilson, William Albert. Brigham Young University student fieldwork collection. 1968. WorldCat 455734111