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
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