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Hopi The Hopi are Native Americans who primarily live in northeastern Arizona. The majority are enrolled in the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona; however, some Hopi people are enrolled in the Colorado ...
village A village is a human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Although villages are often located in rural areas, the term urban v ...
established around AD 900.Experience Hopi: Guided Hopi Walpi village walking tour
. accessed September 1, 2012
It is located above
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, east of the
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in
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, northern
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. ''Walpi'' is the
Hopi The Hopi are Native Americans who primarily live in northeastern Arizona. The majority are enrolled in the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona; however, some Hopi people are enrolled in the Colorado ...
term for "place of the notch." Historically, the village has also been known as Ash Hill Terrace, Gaspe, Gualpi, Hualpi, Kuchapturela, Valpee, and Wolpi. Walpi became the official name as a result of a decision of the
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in 1915. Walpi is an ancient stone pueblo complex located on the
First Mesa First Mesa (Hopi: Wàlpi) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Navajo County, Arizona, United States, on the Hopi Reservation. As of the 2010 census, the CDP population was 1,555, spread among three Hopi villages atop the 5,700-foot (1,740 m ...
(of three), above the canyon floor, on the
Hopi Reservation The Hopi Reservation () is a Native American reservation for the Hopi and Arizona Tewa people, surrounded entirely by the Navajo Nation, in Navajo and Coconino counties in northeastern Arizona, United States. The site has a land area of 2,53 ...
. The villages of Sichomovi and Tewa (Hano) are also on First Mesa, both established after the
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of 1680 against the Spanish missions.


History

Walpi, of the
Hopi people The Hopi are Native Americans who primarily live in northeastern Arizona. The majority are enrolled in the Hopi Tribe of Arizona and live on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona; however, some Hopi people are enrolled in the Colorado ...
, is one of the older continuously inhabited villages in the United States, continuously inhabited for more than 1100 years since around 900 AD. It is an example of traditional Hopi stone architecture, used for their historic pueblos built at defensive locations on the mesa tops. The stone pueblo subtly rising from the stone mesa was well documented by photographs in the latter 19th century, by
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, John K. Hillers, and others.
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continued in the 20th century, along with increasing tourists' 'snapshots' via Fred Harvey bus tours and their own automobiles up from
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.


Present day

The First Mesa Tourism Program describes the village of Walpi as "a living village where the homes are passed down through matrilineal clan lineage." About half a dozen in number live in the ancient stone dwellings, without running water or electricity, in the traditional manner. ;Access Walpi is accessible to visitors by guided tours, given by the First Mesa Consolidated Villages' Tourism Program.


See also

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Hopi mythology The Hopi maintain a complex religious and mythological tradition stretching back over centuries. However, it is difficult to definitively state what all Hopis as a group believe. Like the oral traditions of many other societies, Hopi mythology i ...
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Hopi Kachina dolls Hopi kachina figures or Hopi kachina dolls (also spelled katsina (plural: katsinam); Hopi: or ) are figures carved, typically from cottonwood root, by Hopi people to instruct young girls and new brides about kachinas or ''katsinam'', the immorta ...
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Sikyátki Sikyátki is an archeological site and former Hopi village spanning on the eastern side of First Mesa, in what is now Navajo County in the U.S. state of Arizona. The village was inhabited by Kokop (Firewood) clan of the Hopi from the 14th to ...


References


Entry in The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2006

Britannica entry


External links



* ttp://digital.denverlibrary.org/cdm/search/searchterm/%20Walpi%20(Ariz.)--1910-1920./mode/exact Digital Denver Library.org: Walpi images from 1910–1920— ''online gallery''. {{authority control Pueblo great houses Populated places in Navajo County, Arizona Native American history of Arizona Road-inaccessible communities of Arizona Hopi Reservation Pueblos in New Mexico