Hotevilla: Hopi Shrine of the Covenant/Microcosm of the World

by Thomas E. Mails

Book Overview

Drawing on the teachings of a 102-year-old Hopi traditionalist high priest, a portrait of Hotevilla Village, a stronghold of the ancient Native American faith, presents a series of prophecies that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569248354
• ISBN13: 9781569248355
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Marlowe & Company
• Length: 578 Pages
• Weight: 3.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 8.9" x 11.2"

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Five Stars

A must for any one seriously interested in the Hopi people, their history and future. Highly recommended.

Land and Life - Vida y Tierra

The text under discussion is a profound critique of not only the activities of the BIA and the neo-colonialist Hopi Tribal Council but, in its essence, stands as a moving and formidable critique of Western civilization - one that illuminates the processes of cultural genocide that has been carried out against indigenous populations in the wake of their military conquest and occupation by a foreign power - and the deep resistance of traditional indigenous peoples to the processes of cultural genocide.The elders who speak through the auspices of this work embody a profound political, moral, cultural and spiritual sophisticationthat upholds the values concentrated in the name of their publication - Techqua Ikachi - Land and Life - Tierra y Vida.What is most striking is the awareness the text creates of the inseparability of morality, culture, spiritual practice and political depth, and their rootedness in the Land, in the Earth, and in the relationship of peoples to the Earth. The most fundamental premise that is expressed in the text is its call to "blend with the land," and the text as a whole illuminates the meaning of a culture devoted to this principle in practice.In so doing it stands as a striking counterpoint to the disintegrative powers of the culture of the capitalist colonial settler state that now occupies the land, and offers a sharp and abiding critique of the alienation and atomization inherent in the world view and cultural practices of the now-dominant European conqueror. From this standpoint the text is a classic treatment of resistance to the imposition of colonial rule and of the impact of colonial rule on the cultures of occupied and oppressed peoples.In effect, even if it is not explicitly stated, the criticism of the Traditional Elders aimed at the "Progressive" Tribal Council is similar to the critique of the Autonomous American Indian Movement and other similar groups - and a critique that presaged other, similar Indian critiques by twenty years. The picture the traditionals paint of the Tribal Council is one of a neo-colonial puppet government which has acted at the behest of and in accommodation to the colonial power of the United States in stripping massive amounts of coal from sacred lands, destroying sacred sites, depleting the water table in a profoundly dangerous manner, and that has acted to disintegrate Hopi culture to accommodate the demands of the dominant culture. The Traditional Hopi have also resisted the forced relocation of thousands of Navajo / Dine people from Hopi land. The forced relocation constitutes the destruction of the single largest group of Native American living in a traditional manner in the US. It is, in effect, and act of genocide the Hopi Traditionals have resisted in concert with the Traditional Dine (Navajo) people, based on their own sacred agreements.The Hopi Tribal Council was illegitimately constituted on the basis of a "majority vote" that represented, in practice, only a tiny fractio

Fascinating insight into Hopi prophecy and BIA politics

This book is not popular among those Hopi who are on the payroll of the US Government or helping the Peabody Coal Company or part of the BIA-created tribal council. But it does tell the story of those elders, particularly Dan (who died recently), who have an important message for the world. Highly recommended!