The Hopi

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The Hopi

• Religion
• Clothes
• Food
• Artifacts
• Shelter
• Region

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Hopi Foods

• The Hopi ate a variety of foods.

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The variety of foods

• One food that was common in the Hopi was corn.
  There was 24 different kinds of corn like blue
  and white. They used the corn for their main
  kind of food.
• Another food that they had was Piki bread.
• The Hopi also grew different kinds of beans. The
  kind of beans that they had and ate were black
  beans, yellow beans, and purple string beans.

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• Some foods that the Hopi grew and ate were
  squash, melons, and peaches.
• The last food that the Hopi ate was apricots.

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Religion

• Kachina dolls, Ceremonies, Rituals, and Religion

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The Religion of The Hopi

• At the heart of the Hopi religious life are the
  Kachina dolls.
• The Kachina dolls were made out of wood and were
  spirits, sometimes used at ceremonies.
• The Hopi held Kachina ceremonies, in July.
• The Hopi did rain dances to bring liquid to the
  region.

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• The Hopi believed the Kachina bring rain and help
  crops to grow.
• Many ceremonies involve special prayers and
  rituals to assure rain.
• Marriage was a major event in the lives of most
  of the Southwest Indians Tribes.
• Hopi men in the dry Southwest collected snakes
  for an elaborate ritual. When the Indians
  returned the snakes to the desert, they were
  supposed to bring pre-harvest rain to the Hopi
  land.

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Amazing artifacts of the Hopi.

• Hopi artifacts.

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Artifacts

• The Hopi made Kachina dolls.
• Beautiful pottery is a part of Hopi life.
• They made and sold jewelry.
• They used a dry farming technique.
• Dry farming is a way to grow crops without much
  water.
• They did not have much water so they used dams
  and irrigation canals to water their crops.

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• A game called patol was played for 2 or 4 people.
• Underground structures called Kivas were made by
  the Hopi.

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The Lands of the Hopi
The Hopi had a lot of land. Their land was in the
southwest.

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The Hopis Land.

• The Hopis were successful farmers.
• They have been growing crops for hundreds of
  years.
• The Hopis grew a plant called the parrot thetas
  roots reached the water underground.
• Pueblos are one of the oldest settlements.

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Hopi Homes

• Pueblo and Reed Homes

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The Homes of the Hopi

• The Hopi built homes out of adobe.
• Adobe is a type of clay to protect blistering
  heat.
• They also built pueblos,pueblos were made of
  stones and mud.
• Some used Reed houses, the reed houses were made
  of reed mats covering a wooden pole frame.

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Hopi Clothing

• Everyday and Ceremony

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The Fascinating Clothes of the Hopi

• There clothes were made of animal skins and
  cotton.
• They were sandals or moccasins on their feet.
• The Hopi clothes fit very loose.
• On an average day the men wore shirts and
  tunics,and the women wore skirts or dresses.

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• In the winter they added shawls,blankets and
  extra clothing to there outfits.
• The chief Kachina wore all white besides his red
  moccasins and a trace of blue on one shoulder
• The Hopi men dressed as Kachinas at ceremonies.