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by James F. Brooks


  Vargas, Francisco de, 73

  Vecsey, Christopher, 143

  Verde Valley, Ariz., 143, 154

  Vietnam War, 114, 120

  violence, communal, 4, 14

  Voth, Henry R., 51, 133, 134

  Walker, William, 37–38, 207

  Walpis, Walpi Village, 11, 53, 74–75, 77, 91, 131, 164, 165, 173, 177, 195, 221

  in Awat’ovi massacre, 8–9, 11, 185–87

  Awat’ovi survivors at, 188

  conversions at, 50

  promises to Tanos honored by, 84, 180

  promises to Tanos recanted by, 83–84, 178

  schooling of children as issue in, 174–75

  Snake Dance of, 22

  Tanos recruited by, 78–79, 81–82, 178, 212, 213

  War Society, 121

  Washington, D.C., Hopi chiefs’ visit to, 131

  Washington Evening News, 41

  Water (Cloud, Mist) Clan, 144, 172, 174, 180, 189

  Waters, Frank, 94

  Watunna Wanadi, 119

  Wepo Valley, 180–81

  Western Mound, 2, 25, 95, 97–101, 97, 99, 103, 202, 203, 205

  White Horse Prophecy, 128

  Whiteley, Peter, 128, 140, 214

  Wi’ki (Antelope Society chief), 25

  Wíkvaya, 51–52, 64, 125

  Williams, Patrick, 114

  Wilson, Seth, 107–8, 109, 110

  Winslow, Ariz., 129, 130

  witches, witchcraft, see popwaqt, powaqa

  women:

  as agents of koyaanisqatsi, 162–63, 170

  as disenfranchised from Hopi ceremonial life, 123

  in Hopi destruction-and-rebirth narratives, 123, 144, 147, 162–63, 198, 199

  World War I, 120

  World War II, 112, 114, 120

  Wounded Knee Massacre, 130, 132

  wuk-navoti (revealed knowledge), 119–20

  Wuwutcim Society, 6–7, 147, 188, 201, 209

  Yaayapontsa (wind and fire katsinam), 123, 163

  Yatsattie family, 196

  Yava, Albert (Nuvayoiyava), 74, 75, 92, 189, 197, 218

  at Polacca day school, 173–74

  Awat’ovi massacre narrative of, 177–89

  ceremonial name of, 174

  childhood of, 172–73

  children of, 176, 177

  at Chilocco Indian School, 175, 189

  as defender of Hopi-Tewa spiritual practices, 193

  dual Tewa-Hopi identity of, 172, 177

  harness and shoe-making skills of, 175, 176

  Yava, Albert (Nuvayoiyava) (continued)

  Ida Haupove’s marriage to, 176

  as intermediary between Hopi and white cultures, 189, 193

  interpreting job of, 176, 189

  at Keams Canyon Boarding School, 174–75

  memoir of, 177

  parents of, 171–72

  in return to Hopi reservation, 175–76

  Taiyomana’s short-lived marriage to, 176–77

  Virginia Scott’s relationship with, 177

  Yazzie, Maxwell, 247n

  Ye’ii Clan, 221, 245n

  Yukeoma, sukavungsinom leader, 137, 139

  Zia Pueblo, 67, 80

  Zuni Indians Torturing a Sorcerer (Farny), 40

  Zuni Mountains, 19

  Zuni people, 81, 116, 181, 229n

  Beginning narrative of, 119

  Cushing and, 18–19, 21

  sorcery among, 39, 40, 41–42

  Zuni Pueblo, 18, 22, 24, 63, 191, 195, 210

  Hopi conflict with, 67

  Zuni River Valley, 182

  Zuni Trail, 181

  ALSO BY JAMES F. BROOKS

  Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship, and

  Community in the Southwest Borderlands

  Confounding the Color Line:

  The Indian-Black Experience in North America

  Copyright © 2016 by James F. Brooks

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