"Indians!" ****** 83 



Within the park itself, Navahoes, Hopis, and Havasupais are seen 

 almost always at the South Rim, Bright Angel Camp, and other points. 

 Perhaps the greatest object of interest is the Hopi House on the South 

 Rim, an exact replica of one of the ancient 

 Hopi houses on a mesa in the reservation. 

 Here are seen real Hopis in their native cos 

 tumes, the women making the pottery for 

 which they are skilled, the men engaging in 

 their interesting and picturesque dances each 

 afternoon. 



These Hopis are members of the oldest 

 race in the Southwest. They were a settled 

 nation of Indians who attained a consider 

 able degree of culture and skill at the arts. 

 They built their homes of adobe, in the form 

 of picturesque pueblos, situated high on the 

 mesas where they could defend themselves from their warlike nomadic 

 neighbors. The Hopis, unlike the majority of the Indians, derive their 

 living from their little farms. They keep domestic animals, raise corn, 

 and carry on their interesting arts and crafts quite independent of the 

 outside world. 



By taking the side trip from Grand Canyon Park over the Navahopi 

 Road, visitors can find the Hopis at work in their villages exactly as they 

 lived before the Spaniards discovered and attempted to conquer this 

 region three centuries ago. Here the Dude can see the Hopi maiden 

 grinding blue corn, to be used in her wedding ceremonial. The Hopis 

 raise many kinds of corn, blue, red, yellow, and other colors. Each 

 color has a significance. They are careful in their dress, neat in their 

 appearance. Their houses are clean in spite of the fact that they keep 

 their dogs and pigs in the courtyards, which often form the roof of the 

 families living in the apartments one story below, the Hopi villages 

 being constructed in terraces on the cliffs. The Hopis dress in colorful 

 costumes and wear bright-colored bands around their heads. This is 

 their chief distinguishing feature. 



Navahoes are seen in considerable number in Grand Canyon Park. 

 Many of them find employment with the government or the public 

 utilities in the park. They are good workers and a fine nation of Indians. 

 They never have been dependent upon the government for food and 

 shelter, being successful shepherds. Their sheep furnish them with 

 meat for food and wool for clothing. At their villages, where the Nava 

 hoes lived in crude hogans made of brush and sticks and mud, many of 

 the men worked as silversmiths, making bracelets, rings, pins, and other 

 ornaments, often decorated with turquoise settings. These are highly 



