But action to update criminal laws on Hopi has been long overdue, he said. “The old ordinance is so outdated and so behind the times as far as addressing the crimes that are committed on the ...
The filing was born out of the 1996 passage of the Navajo-Hopi Land Dispute Settlement Act, which ratified an agreement ...
By Yessenia Funes for Atmos. Broadcast version by Alex Gonzalez for Arizona News Connection reporting for the Solutions ...
The history of how Hopi reached this point is a long and complex one. In 1882, President Chester A. Arthur signed an executive order creating a reservation for Hopis and “such other Indians as ...
arming themselves with knowledge needed to thrive in two vastly different worlds — the Hopi Reservation and surrounding Navajo Nation, as well as the culturally omnipresent country that borders ...
In 2023, Officer Pawasiema was investigating a burglary call in Sichomovi Village on the Hopi Reservation when he was shot in the chest. Pawasiema returned fire, striking his assailant. He then ...
Otellie Pasiyava was brought up and educated on a Hopi reservation. Although her formal training in pottery didn’t begin until she was 23, she created clay objects from childhood until her death in ...