The Hopi People: "The Oldest of People" by The Native American Tribes

The name of the group chosen is The American Indians(Hopi) also known as the “the oldest of people” by the Native American tribes. They regard themselves as the first inhabitants of America with the name Hopi, meaning a peaceful person or civilized person.

Place Of Habitation

The Hopis are natives of northwestern Arizona, where they and their ancestors have been living for thousands of years.

Type Of Housing

The Hopi people lived in adobe(clay) houses, which are multi-strong houses complexes made of clay and straw, baked into hard bricks and stones. Up to the early 1990s, many people live in houses constructed of modern materials. One of an American Indian housing settlement.

Settlement Pattern

The Hopi people lived in compact villages, the population ranged from less than a hundred to most likely two thousand persons in 1850. It consisted of seven villages.

The Hopi are an American group of Indians in Arizona, which right now includes 8 Hopi pueblos in which all are at the top of Mesos. They are, Walpi, Sichomov, Mishongnov, Shipaulovi, Pakavi, Shongopavi. Oraibi and Hotavila. It has been around a century and a half that contact with the white race has led to long intermissions on a friendly essence.

Short History

The Hopi are an American group of Indians in Arizona, which right now includes 8 Hopi pueblos in which all are at the top of Mesos. They are, Walpi, Sichomov, Mishongnov, Shipaulovi, Pakavi, Shongopavi. Oraibi and Hotavila. It has been around a century and a half that contact with the white race has led to long intermissions on a friendly essence.

Language: Written and Spoken

The words that were used by the Hopis often had more than one meaning, which may be found in fixation and compounding. The second may change for example the vowels lengthening and shortening.

Aesthetics: Dress and Jewelry

The Hopi are said to be one of America’s renowned nation of tribes for the style of jewelry, which may include, bracelets, buckles, earrings, necklaces, and pendants.

When it came to the dress code, the Hopis did not wear much clothing only breechcloths or short kilts(men’s skirts)The women wore knee-length cotton dresses (mantas)Missionaries did not think this dress style was modest enough, so in the 1900s, many Hopi women started wearing blouses underneath their mantas, which is still used today.

Trinidad's culture can relate to that of the Hopi in that, Trinidad was populated by several tribes. The Amerindians tribes were referred to by various names such as, yaio, Kalipuna, Garini, and Arauca. Trinidad’s Amerindians deployed part of a large regional island to island and island to mainland trading networks. The Amerindians invented the canoe, the bow and arrow. The cuisine included cassava bread, farine, wild meat, and corn pastel. A Hopi canoe was used as a means of transportation in the rivers.

References

1. Beesley KR, Elzinga D. An 1860 English-Hopi Vocabulary Written in the Deseret Alphabet. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press; 2015. http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=e000xww&AN=1257328&site=ehost-live&scope=site. Accessed September 29, 2019.
2. Talayesva, D. C., Hine, R. V., Sakiestewa Gilbert, M., & Simmons, L. W. (2013). Sun Chief : The Autobiography of a Hopi Indian, Second Edition (Vol. Second edition edited by Leo W. Simmons ; forewords by Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert and Robert V. Hine). New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=ip,shib&db=e000xww&AN=649232&site=ehost-live&scope=site
3. Schlegel, A. (1999, August). Browse Cultures A-Z Index. Retrieved from https://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/ehrafe/browseCultures.do?context=main#thisChar=A
4. Native Languages of the Americas. (2015). Facts for Kids: Hopi Indians (Hopis). Retrieved from http://www.bigorrin.org/hopi_kids.htm