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The Hopi, this means that stable in each appreciate, mostly lived in northeast Arizona and have been an agricultural society that practiced ancestor worship.
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The Hopi language belongs to a family called Uto-Aztecan, distantly related to the language spoken by the Aztecs in Mexico. The language of the nearby Zuñis is not related to Hopi. Linguists today are uncertain as to whether Zuñi is a “language isolate” 21 22 THE HOPI with no known connections or whether it belongs to a family called Penutian. If Zuñi is a Penutian language, it is a remote relative of languages spoken in parts of California. Pueblo living in towns along the Rio Grande speak languages belonging to two other families, called Tanoan and Keresan.
Women wore woven blouses and skirts. Clothing was sometimes brightly embroidered with contrasting colors and designs. Both women and men adorned themselves with sashes, necklaces, and articles of turquoise and shell jewelry. To protect their feet, they wore moccasins and boots made of deer or antelope hide. Scenes of life in Hopi villages can be summed up by the words of Antonio de Espejo, leader of a Spanish expedition through Pueblo territory in 1582: As we crossed this province the inhabitants of each town came out to meet us, took us to their pueblos, and gave us quantities of turkeys, corn, beans, and tortillas, with other kinds of bread which they make skillfully.
Further droughts and outbreaks of smallpox hit the Hopis beginning in 1864. S. officials but received little aid. As a result, many Hopis left their towns and took temporary refuge among the Zuñis. As droughts and disease repeatedly struck their villages, the Hopi population fluctuated throughout the nineteenth century. Estimates put the total number of Hopis at between two thousand and three thousand during the century. S. government used its resources to fight the war and therefore devoted little time or material to Indian tribes in the Southwest.