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This is a big community house, the home of about three hundred industrious people.

Large beams have been torn from the round holes at the top. Today no timber of this size is to be found within forty miles of the canyon. The openings at the ground level have been cut by vandals.

This noble specimen of his race, though wearing a war bonnet, is a man of peaceful pursuits. He and his people are not wards of the Government, for they hold their lands under early Spanish grants, and have always handled their own tribal affairs and property.

They are dedicated to that luminary deity by their parents, and are completely exposed to its penetrating desert rays until they are well in their ‘teens.

As their name signifies, the Hopi Indians are
Pacific; but they are far from being pacifists.

Their “standing army” consists of a clan in
Which every mother raises her son to be a warrior, just as certain other clans are entrusted with the perpetuation of the Snake Dance and similar customs.

Like the people of San Marino, who climbed a mountain to live in liberty and serenity, the Hopi self-styled “People of Peace” took refuge in the cliffs of Northeastern Arizonato avoid constant warring with cruder tribes. Walpi is on the summit of a sheer cliff.

The bow and arrow today are relics of bitter tribal wars of long ago. A more potent Mace is a cane, prized by many council chiefs, who hold this symbol of prestige because of a visit to the “Great White Father” in Washington. Some of these canes have been handed down from patriarchs who made the cross-continent journey during Lincoln’s administration.

Acoma is said to be the oldest continuously inhabited village in the United States. Its people defied the Spaniards before Jamestown or Plymouth Rock appeared in history.

The arts and crafts known to the Zuni have been very effectively handed down from one Generation to another in such schools as this.

The metates, or grinding stones, used by the Zuni in making meal are very like those used in Pueblo Bonito. These stone mills are an inheritance from remote antiquity and have been utilized by primitive people in many parts of the world.

National Geographic

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