The contemporary Hopi reservation is comprised of more than 1.5 million acres in northeastern Arizona, entirely within the bounds of the Navajo reservation. Numerous collections bear on Hopi history, culture, and political life, with particular strength recent political history, including the long‐standing Navajo‐Hopi land dispute.
Synonymy
The English‐language designation “Hopi” is also the autonym (hópi). See also Schroeder and Goddard, Handbook of North American Indians, v. 9, pp. 550‐53.
Contains miscellaneous materials, collected and deposited by former UA Special Collections Curator Louis A. Hieb, on the Hopi political movement during its heyday in the 1960s and early 1970s. Many photocopied publications, but one extensive transcript of a movement meeting is present.
Describes Chet Higman’s brief tenure as business manager for Tohono O'odham in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Some material on other tribes, notably the Akimel O'odham, Hopi, and Navajo appears.
Contains materials that document extensively the Hopi‐Navajo land dispute, extending over much of Udall’s congressional career, providing an invaluable record of negotiation, brinksmanship, mediation, and the ongoing work of relocation, as well as the play of the conflict beyond Arizona.
Includes the folklorist’s notes and manuscripts for her unpublished “Folklore and Legends of the Indians of the Southwest” including drafts of a chapter on Hopi folklore.
Contains materials that document the Hopi‐Navajo land dispute, although from the vantage of DeConcini’s opposition to relocation, conflict with members of the relocation commission, and efforts to establish conditions under which residents of disputed lands would keep their homes.
Contains scrapbooks containing press coverage and notices of speakers, including Sen. Ernest McFarland (D‐AZ) who briefly alluded to the Navajo and Hopi in his 1948 speech on Colorado River water disputes.
Includes a single, unpublished Trudy Griffin‐Pierce paper, prepared for the 1989 annual meeting of the American Anthropological
Association (AAA), entitled “Hopi and Zuni Prayer Sticks: Magic, Symbolic, Texts, or Persons?”
Includes images of Hopi people and life from the early twentieth century.
Arizona Historical Society Materials
The materials located in this section can be found at the Arizona Historical Society Tucson location, an institution separate from the University of Arizona. There you can find manuscript materials, photographs, oral histories and books that highlight Indigenous life in the U.S./Mexico borderlands. This selection represents only a small fraction of the Arizona Historical Society's materials related to Indigenous life in the borderlands. Please contact their archivists for questions about additional materials.
