Becoming Hopi: A History

Becoming Hopi: A HistoryBecoming Hopi is a comprehensive look at the history of the people of the Hopi Mesas as it has never been told before. The Hopi Tribe is one of the most intensively studied Indigenous groups in the world. Most popular accounts of Hopi history romanticize Hopi society as timeless. The archaeological record and accounts from Hopi people paint a much more dynamic picture, full of migrations, gatherings, and dispersals of people; a search for the center

Isabel and Ray join them in an overcrowded house

In desperation

and the very bending of space-time continuums queered through NDN time

and her own temporary discouragement

transplanted trees in space

braided hair and beautifully colored clothing

Sitting Bull's savvy manipulation of his media image (he had an agent) and the author's own Comanche forebears

This remarkable sojourn through Native and settler history

Brigham Young U

and a smooth green snake curled up in surprise

who is taken away from her grandmother and put in mission school

bonds of love and family marry the elements into a tightly woven whole that pulses with the drama of life