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Hopi Indians

The Hopi lived in the Southwest of the United States and Northern Mexico. The name means peaceful and their rich ceremonies include dances and Kachina dolls.

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Did the hopis have temperary homes?

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Yes, the Hopi people traditionally lived in temporary homes called pueblos. These were multi-story dwellings made of adobe, stone, and wood, and were designed to be easily constructed and deconstructed as needed. The Hopi would move between different pueblos depending on the season or agricultural activities.

How did the Navajo shltes r to the hopi?

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The Navajo shelters, called hogans, are different from the traditional Hopi dwellings. Hogans are typically round in shape and made of logs or stone with a dome-shaped roof, while Hopi dwellings, known as pueblos, are multi-story apartment-style buildings made of adobe or stone. The architectural differences reflect the distinct cultural practices and environmental adaptations of each tribe.

What is Latin for mud?

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I can only think of Classical maltha, V. Malta (no connection with the name of the island, which comes from Greek Melite).

I remember now that the main terms fo mud in Latin are, first, lutum (also with the meaning of "clay") which finds its commonest cognate in Modern English in "pollution" and in medical English in "lues" (syphilis), and, second, limus (especially river mud) which has a cognate in Modern English slime, the initial sibilization of which is a hallmark of the affinity of English with the Slavic languages, as also attested for example in such a Russian word as sletat, sletet, "to fly", but also "to fall", as from stairs or a horse. (See for example my blog, http://thegnosticedda.blogspot.com, on the early semantic convergence of gliding, flying and falling). It can be broadly argued that terms for "impurity" in IE languages have a psychological element of the apotropaic as a personable afferent and therefore are applied liberally to anything (physical) considered "unclean" without regard as to its nature. Therefore one can possibly include ME "lime" and "loam" in that category as a cognate, i.e. both a linguistic and a psychological one. However, a word of caution is in place here, as a continual preoccupation along these lines incurs a serious risk of disintegration of one's concept of language.

What does the hopi use to make there clothes?

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yes. they decorated there clothes with beads.they wore pants and moccasins made out of deer skin in the winter and breech cloths in the summer.

What is Hopi word for peace?

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The hopi word for peace is "sipala".

What games dID hopi tribe play?

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totolospia a stick and ball game.

What hopi wear?

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they wore animal skins like sheeps, or deer.

What religion did the Hopi Tribe practice?

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Hopi worshiped Kachinas (KAH-CHEE-NAHS). Kachinas were belived to be spirits that watched over or harmed the Hopi. There were good kachinas, and jokester kachinas. Jokester kachinas, were evil and brought things such as war, bad harvest, to much snow, heat, or rain, sickness, and other things that could harm the Hopi tribes.

How did the hopi make pots?

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they made their wepons out of rocks, mud, and other things like animal bones.

What is Hopi?

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The Hopi are a tribe of Native Americans who live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. According to the 2010 census, there were 18,237 Hopi people living in the United States at the time.

What was the climate where the hopi lived?

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The Hopi environment was dry, desert like, and hot.

How large was the hopi tribe?

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At the time of first contact with Europeans there may have been around 2,800 Hopi; today there are around 7,000.

Where did the hopi come from?

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they came from over a million years ago when the ice age happend they followed several animals when they crossed the ice age bridge then they got stuck there when the ice age was over

How did the anasazi cook food?

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The Anasazi used pottery for cooking their food on open fires. They also used pits of hot coals in the ground. Their method was similar to using a Dutch oven.

Hopi Indians celebrations?

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The Hopi people speak the Hopi language. It is called Hopílavayi by them. About 75% of the population speak it, about. Only a few older people (about 40) only speak Hopi and no English. There are four dialects. They traditionally spoke with the Zuni in Hopi not Zuni. There have been Tewa speakers living on Hopi lands since the 1680s but few Hopis speak Tewa. The Tewa often acted as translators with the Navajo, Tewa Pueblo people, Spanish and English.

Hopi is in the Northern Uto-Aztecan. This is a group of about 16 languages including Paiute, Ute, Shoshone and Comanche but Hopi is considered distant form these languages almost isolated on it's own. It has 6 vowels and 20-32 consonants depending on the dialect. One dialect has tones. It is a subject-object-verb language but subject and predicate sentences are common. It uses a lot of suffixes. It has cases. There are singular, dual and plural as inn ancient Greek.

Here is a Hopi sentence: Tömö' taawa tatkyaqw yámangwu

Which means: "In the winter the sun rises in the southeast"

"Nu' kwaahut tuwa" means: "I saw an eagle"

"Pam 'as kiihut peenani" means: "He was going to paint the house (but didn't)"

Did the hopi indians live in the desert?

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Yes, they did. They lived in what is now Arizona.

What us region did kachina dolls come from?

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The Southwest in the United States is where they were commonly produced

What was the wemens hopi clothes made out of?

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what did hopis use to make kachina masks

What was the southwest Native Americans weather?

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Climate

- the climate for the pacific coast indians was generally mild and warm

- because the climate was warm the pacific coast indians wore light clothing made out of dried animal skins, usually without the fur.

  • the pacific indians made their huts of planks to withstand and keep out of the harsh sun and heat. there were smoke holes that let out the hot air (because hot air rises)

Location

-pacific coast indian areas include present day baja california, california, oregon, washington, and northwest canada

Diet

-the location of these tribes affected their diets. because they were living on the coast their diet consisted of more seafood than If they had lived inland, because obviously they wouldn't have any seafood in their diet.

-living in an area heavily wooded with live oaks, acorn flour was also a staple of their diet

What is a half native American half Mexican person called?

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Mexicans are Native Americans

research the term Mexica

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No. The mexicans are not Native American. If you ever tell a Native American that, you'll get beat up. The cultures are completely different. White people only say Mexicans are Native because of the Mayans and Aztecs and think that's pretty much the same.... which isn't true.

Why are the kachina dolls important to the Hopi natives?

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they honor it by dancing and wearing masks facing it and a ceremonie is for the underworld (where they thought they came from)

What food do the Hohokam eat?

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i have absolutley no idea please proceed to check google.com howdy

Who is the maker of the Kachina doll?

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Kachina dolls are made by the Hopi and has religious purposes. They are commonly called katsina dolls. There is no "ch" sound in the Hopi language.

Who were the Anasazi and Hopi?

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The Anasazi are people who lived in the high plateau four corners area for 800 years until 1300. In the 1200s they started moving south and east and consolidating in the locations of the Modern Pueblo peoples. Some of them moved to the Hopi mesas. The Hopi were at their location as early at 1000 AD. They share in the same culture. They trace many of their clans and rituals to different Anasazi locations. The Hopis and Pueblo people are the Anasazi's direct descendants. Today there are about 18,000 Hopi members of the Hpoi Nation mostly on the three mesas on the southern edge of Black mesa were they have always lived, to the northeast of Flagstaff. About 75% speak Hopi. Many still farm corn and participate in complex rituals. Attached is the Hopi Nation website.

What were the homes that the Hopi lived in called?

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Hopi homes were adobe houses called pueblos....Hopis were a tribe of the pueblo indians.