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An in-depth account of the continuing battle between the Navajos and Hopis over millions of acres of disputed Arizona land discusses the actors in the battle--Hopi farmers, Navajo sheepherders, mining and energy interests, lawyers, the government, and others. ... Read more

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An excellent book about a fascinating issue
This is an excellent, well-researched, well-written book about a very complex issue.I recommend it to anyone interested in the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute, or to anyone living in the Four Corners states.
What is the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute?
Well, over three quarters of the land that used to belong to the Hopi tribe has gradually, since the 1860s, been taken from them and given to the Navajo.Now, of the sprawling reservation at the center of the Four Corners states--Utah, Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico, the states whose corners all meet at one point--only the reservation's small, misshapen center, the small hole of a big donut, is Hopi reservation.The rest, on all sides of the Hopi, is Navajo.
In the early-1970s, Congress enacted a law that gave the Hopis back some of their land, but by that time, the land had been lived on by generations of Navajos and become sacred to them.
Some of the Navajos left, and were relocated into shoddy houses with dry wells and no roads to reach them, and many sold or traded their new houses to unethical real estate agents, and ended up with little or nothing.Most other Navajos refused to give their land back, and were then forbidden to make any repairs to their homes, or to build on their land.
The Hopi reasoned that the land wasn't the Navajos' to maintain, and hoped the building freeze would drive them out.But the Navajos remained.Navajos whose homes were unfinished had to live in what was already there, and Navajos whose homes were damaged couldn't repair them.Many ended up living in houses with broken doors, broken windows, and holes in their roofs, which rain and snow could blow into.The building freeze went on for over a quarter century, but now the Navajos have finally been granted permission to repair their homes and build on their property, and the two tribes are working hard at getting along.Each tribe has been wronged, and finding a compromise hasn't been easy.
This book does a wonderful job of examing this issue, and if the book has any faults at all, it's that the author seems unable to hide that she has a slight(?) preference for the Navajos' side over the Hopis'.Overall though, this book is great.Scholarly, but nor boring.Factual, but always interesting.It's full of very real people, very real problems, and very good writing.

A Moving and Informative Book
I bought this book while I was driving through Northern Arizona and headed into the area described by the dispute.This book is a moving account of how the anglo practice of drawing borders and lines on the land hasaffected two ancient peoples.It also aids in showing Native Americans asthe heterogeneous group that they really are.We (and I include myself inthis group) have a tendency to look at Native Americans as a single group,at least within a single geographical region.The history of Hopi-Navajointeractions is an example of different peoples with different world viewswho were able to co-exist for generations before the formulation ofartificial boundaries.We also see the pressures on traditional practiciesby economic imperitives.I strongly reccommend this book for anyoneinterested in the recent history of Native Americans and the Southwest. ... Read more

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Today, the Hopi inhabit 14 different villages on a 2.5 million-acre reservation in the Four Corners region, where Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico meet. ... Read more

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Presents the entire range of Hopi prophecy and spiritual instruction while preparing people for the hard times ahead by explaining how to recognize and understand these expected events. Reprint." ... Read more

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The Hopi Survival Kit
Very good book.Worth reading at this time in our history.This has information from a Hopi Elder and exerpts from past Hopi newsletters.Very good read.I am reading it again for more info.

The Hopi Survival Kit
This is one of the most disappointing books I have ever tried to read.It some ways, it reminds me of the anticipatory tension device used in the TV series 'Lost'- a constant tease pregnant with possibilities followed by another tease with no resolution in sight.In the end, anything resembling a result turns out to be mediocre, at best.The Author too often inserts his Christian bias as well as deducing clearly unsubstantiated information as possible fact. I can empathize with the Author's respect for the Hopi people and their mistreatment by the US Gov and assorted greed-focused corporations; however, this book does this honorable people more harm than good.

I hoped for so much more when I read the title.

Read 'Neither Wolf Nor Dog' by Kent Nerburn for real insight into Native Americans written by a white man from direct experience.

A no dry food Survivial Kit
Never dry, once you start, you feel it's power, you will want everyone to read and learn from the Hopi.In todays world, with so many problems it is a way to survive as a people and nation that makes sense.

The Prophecies Are Happening NOW!
The Hopi Survival Kit - Chapter 6 - Prophecies Past and Present - Page 207/ 208.

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Let us take a look into the future through the eyes of our prophets. They say that along the way the industrialized world will have certain problems. Throughout the world people will be uncomfortable because of the changing times. The worldly woes people will be going through. People will have to make adjustments to fit themselves into new life styles and environments.

The industrialized nations will become careless in getting more of the resources they need out of the earth, oil, coal, etc. Believing all these things will last forever. Soon natural resources will be depleted. Fuel shortages will occur; industrial machinery will come to a standstill. The machinery used for planting, harvesting and transport will become useless. The white man (Bahanna) with all his intelligence and technology will not be able to repair the damage.

Now let us review our knowledge briefly, the centuries old prophecies which warned us what would happen when we forgot the principles of right and wrong in our behavior. We will see extraordinary events in Nature and Earth, including mankind: because modern man ignores the wisdom of ancient culture and religion. Modern man looks upon old wisdom and knowledge as dead, useless and no longer respected.

Modern man began to depend on the money system and no longer Mother Earth for food. According to prophecy when this happens Mother Earth will hide the nourishment which she provides because of the view that ancient food is poor man's food.

When all food disappears modern man will try to correct his mistake, the conditions he caused upon the earth through his inventions. He will try to achieve some kind of method to heal the wound, but this will not be possible when we reach the point of no return.

Only through peace the survival of mankind and our planet Earth is possible. Only if we, the human race, are willing to change.

Good Information but Disjointed Delivery
Thomas E. Mails was chosen by the Hopi Elders to deliver their prophecies and warnings to the world.These millennia-old prophecies identify current disastrous problems like environmental degradation, fraudulent politics and unhealthy technology etc. leading to the collapse of the world as we know it.Additional instructions are given on averting disaster and acquiring spiritual equanimity. Survival is hopeful for those peoples that are connected to Earth's rhythms, those that blend with nature and celebrate life.The material in The Hopi Survival Kit is fascinating and the keepers of this wisdom are beyond reproach.The value of the traditional Hopi worldview is without question the equivalent of a World Heritage treasure, yet Thomas Mails' delivery couldn't be more jumbled, pompous or paranoid.The rhetoric, tedious opinions and manipulative language found in The Hopi Survival Kit do not do justice to the beauty and truth of these ancient teachings.One wishes that it had been presented concisely with a clear progression of ideas, not with a miscellany of bad metaphors, constant repetition and finger-pointing.Mails' claims that elements of Christianity are identical to Hopi cosmology are ridiculous. As if a culture in a different time and place could not have developed a completely unique and original relationship to the Great Mystery.Interpretations of a divine order or Creator without hierarchy, patriarchy or control DO exist.I wish it were otherwise, but the significance of the Hopi's message is compromised by Mails' inept writing skills and his lack of objectivity.In the book he discusses his own writing style (!!?) and claims that it is only expediency that is required for the delivery of the Hopi message, not good writing.Well, I disagree.Good writing would have given the book more credibility and it would have reached far more people.Perhaps a re-write by a brilliant (or at least competent) writer could give this book the wider exposure it deserves.It is time for indigenous knowledge to be highly valued, held sacred even, for these Hopi teachings can contribute to the restoration of sanity to the human race and balance to the Earth.


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A Hopi grandfather tells his grandchildren an ancient Hopi tale of monsters that come to eat bad children, the story of the giant kachinas. ... Read more