Hopi Native Americans

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Hopi Native Americans
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Location

• The Hopi lived in Arizona, California and parts
  of southern Nevada.

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How They Gathered Food

• The Hopi were farmers.
• What they grew corn, pumpkins, squash, beans,
  melons, fruit

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Clothing

• Hopi men didn't wear much clothing-- only
  breechcloths or short kilts (men's skirts).
• Hopi women wore knee-length cotton dresses called
  mantas. c) A manta fastened at a woman's right
  shoulder, leaving her left shoulder bare.
• Men and women both wore deerskin moccasins on
  their feet
• Some clothes were made from wool.

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Clothing
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Shelters

• Hopis live in pueblos that are made of stone and
  mud and stand several stories high.
• Pueblos were made out of Adobe which is mud.

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Kivas

• The Kivas are an underground chamber in the
  pueblo home that they used to talk and have
  religious ceremonies in

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Culture

• Women owned the land and house that the family
  lived on.
• Women cooked, cleaned, took care of the kids, and
  wove baskets.
• Men harvested food, hunted, performed ceremonies
  and the did the weaving.

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Culture Continued

• They made clay pottery.
• They had carvings and elaborate designs on them.
  Most of their designs told a story.
• Kachina Dolls Dolls that are strong spirits
  that control nature.

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Other Interesting Information

• The Hopi has had the same method of making
  baskets for hundreds of years.
• Hopi weavers made all ceremonial costumes.
• When a child is born they get a special blanket
  and a perfect ear of corn.  On the 20th day they
  take the child to the mesa cliff and hold it
  facing the rising sun.  When the sun hits the
  baby is given a name.