Landau Elaine. The Hopi

Franklin Watts, 1994. — 63 p. — (A First Book). — ISBN: 0-531-20098-1.The Hopi are a tribe of Pueblo Indians living in northeastern Arizona. In the 1500s Spanish explorers who found these native people noticed that they lived in villages that looked like Spanish towns. Because the word pueblo means "town" in Spanish, they called them Pueblo Indians. Although the different groups of Pueblo Indians are unique, they share some common traits.
Most Pueblos live in New Mexico along the Rio Grande and in the central west and western portion of the state. The Hopi, however, who live the farthest west of these Indians, inhabit three fingerlike cliff extensions of a high plateau known as Black Mesa. There individual Hopi villages perched on what's known as the First, Second, and Third Mesa look down on the desert plain below.
For centuries the Hopi have had a special bond to the earth. As their leaders put it, "It is here on this land that we are bringing up our younger generation and through preserving the ceremonies are teaching them proper human behavior and the strength of character to make them true citizens among all people."
The word Hopi means "peaceful." Yet, when necessary, they have fought for their people in various ways. Theirs is a tradition of strength and wisdom. This is the story of how they lived and fared before and after the whites came.