Hopi police have arrested five people and set up road checkpoints to discourage hundreds traveling to a religious ceremony that has sparked threats of violence on Hopi reservation land north of Hard ...

PRESCOTT, Ariz. — Prescott residents who call themselves the Smoki People no longer will dance with live snakes in their mouths in an annual rite detested by Indians who have called it sacrilege.

Northern Arizona tribes are following news of a Paris auction house that wants to put 70 artifacts sacred to the Hopi people up for sale. A hearing today Thursday will determine the legality of the ...

Above the creased high-desert landscape of northeastern Arizona, the Hopi village Oraibi, continuously inhabited for nearly 1,000 years, sits atop a blond mesa crumbling at the edges. Each fall, ...

I cover Indian Country as a reporter for NPR member station KJZZ from a base in Flagstaff, which is on the edge of the country's largest reservation. So, I've educated myself about Navajo and Hopi ...

MR. H. R. VOTH is known to all students of North American ethnology for his researches into the sociology and religion of various Pueblo groups, and now, owing to the resources of the Stanley ...

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