Hopi Tribe Research Paper

he peaceful people or the civilized people, can you guess who they are? They are the Hópitu, ‘peaceful ones,’ or Hópitu-shínumu, ‘peaceful all people’ or better known as the Hopi tribe. Not all people called them that, the Spanish misunderstood the Hopi word mo`ki and thought that mo`ki was the tribe's name. Moqui actually meaning death. The Hopi spoke a Shoshonean form of the Uto-Aztecan language family. The Hopi lived in now what is known as Arizona. The Hopi were first found in the summer of 1540.
Marriage in the Hopi tribe was essential to the existence of the tribe. The Hopis couldn't marry anyone from their own clan. When a women got married she had a reed suitcase that she kept the dress in after the marriage ceremony. The groom's closest
There was a total of 4 different chiefs that could be chosen that are included in the following: House Chief, Kiva Chief, War Chief, and the Speaker Chief or the town crier. There's one more and that is the Chief of each clan. All these making up a council which rules the pueblos, the crier publishing their decisions. Each clan in the Hopi tribe was named after an animal. Two examples are the Bear Clan and the Parrot Clan.
The Hopi were a very peaceful tribe and they only warred when they had to, an example is when the Navajos raided the Hopis and they need defense. When they had to the Hopis used weapons such as, spear and the bow and arrow. As mentioned before, the Hopis were discovered on the summer of 1540. When the Spaniards first came they were not greeted with happiness, but then the unfriendliness came to an end. The Spanish stayed with the Hopi for several days. Sadly, in 1882 president Chester A. Arthur establishes the Hopi Indian Reservation. This peaceful tribe is not extinct. They now live on a reservation in their homelands located in Arizona. The share the reservation with the Mohave, Navajo , and Chemehuevi. There are roughly 2000 Hopis on the