The Hopi Reservation () is a Native American reservation for 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 ...

and Arizona Tewa people, surrounded entirely by the

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, in

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and Coconino counties in northeastern

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, United States. The site has a land area of 2,531.773 sq mi (6,557.262 km²) and, as of the 2020 census had a population of 7,791. The two nations formerly shared the Navajo–Hopi Joint Use Area until the Navajo–Hopi Land Settlement Act created an artificial boundary through the area. The partition of this area, commonly known as Big Mountain, by acts of Congress in 1974 and 1996, has resulted in continuing controversy. The system of villages unites three

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s in the

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style traditionally used by the Hopi. Walpi is the oldest village on First Mesa, having been established in 1690 after the villages at the foot of mesa '' Koechaptevela'' were abandoned for fear of Spanish reprisal after the 1680

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. The Tewa people live on First Mesa. Hopi also occupy the Second Mesa and Third Mesa. The community of Winslow West is off-reservation trust land of the Hopi tribe. The Hopi Tribal Council is the local governing body consisting of elected officials from the various reservation villages. Its powers were given to it under the Hopi Tribal Constitution. The Hopi consider their life on the reservation (in particular, the traditional

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residence, the spiritual life of the kivas on the mesa, and their dependence on

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) an integral and critically sustaining part of the " fourth world". Hopi High School is the secondary education institute for reservation residents. Hopi Radio, a station with a mix of traditional Hopi and typical American programming is run for the reservation and provides internships for Hopi High School.

Communities

* Keams Canyon *

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and Upper Moenkopi * Polacca * Winslow West * Yuuwelo Paaki ( Spider Mound) * New Oraibi ( Kiqotsmovi, Kykotsmovi)

First Mesa

* Waalpi (Walpi) * Hanoki (Hano or Tewa) * Sitsomovi (Sichomovi)

Second Mesa

* Songoopavi (Shongopavi) * Musangnuvi (Mishongnovi) * Sipawlavi ( Shipaulovi)

Third Mesa

* Hoatvela (Hotevilla) * Paaqavi (Bacavi) * Munqapi (Moencopi) * Orayvi (Oraibi)

Time zone

The Hopi Reservation lies within the

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. Like most of

, but unlike the surrounding

, it does not observe

daylight saving time Daylight saving time (DST), also referred to as daylight savings time, daylight time (Daylight saving time in the United States, United States and Daylight saving time in Canada, Canada), or summer time (British Summer Time, United Kingdom, ...

Aerial views

Aerial views looking north along the central three of the reservation's five major washes, from west to east:

References

Hopi Reservation and Off-Reservation Trust Land, Arizona – United States Census Bureau

External links

The Hopi Tribe

Hopi Radio
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