Hopi: Quick Facts

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Facts

Also Known As	Moqui • Moki

Photos

Pahl-Lee, Moqui, oil on panel by Elbridge Ayer Burbank, 1898; 22 × 17 cm.

Hopi squirrel spirit

Hopi: snake dance

Native American Hopi artists carve kachina dolls, representing spirits of ancestors. Children learn about the kachina spirits while they play with the dolls.

Hopi kachina doll

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Topics

Indigenous peoples of the American Southwest Pueblo peoples Apache Navajo Yuman A:Shiwi Mojave Pima Tohono O’odham Mimbres Karankawa

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Tecumseh. Battle of the Thames, Ontario, Canada, and the death of Tecumseh. Col. Richard M. Johnson with the Kentucky volunteers on left battle with Tecumseh and his Native troops. Native American Shawnee chief. North American indian. (See Notes)

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