Hopi

Our dream was always to return home and to use our education and skills to help Hopi people. Indian reservations don't always provide incentives for our young people to return so we created our own incentives along the way. We are unlimited in our thinking and depend almost entirely on the communities we serve to guide the direction of the Foundation from year-to-year. Behind the skirts of our leadership is an entire network of people who work hard to make our dreams come true. If our work improves the material and spiritual condition of the Hopi people and others, we are on the right track. That is the bar against which we measure all our efforts.

The Hopi were a sedentary hunter/farmer culture of the greater Pueblo macro-culture. They were the only Uto-Aztecan component of that macro-culture. They lived on three mesas in northeastern Arizona, but claimed much of the surrounding territory. They settled in the area just after A.D. 1000.
The most important enemies of the Hopi were the predatory Navajos, Apaches, and Utes, all of whom inflicted considerable damage on the Hopi. They were less affected by Spanish and Mexican rule than the Pueblo cultures to the east.
The Hopi lost considerable land to and are now landlocked by the Navajo. Disputes with Navajo continue to this day over land rights. The Hopi have successfully retained much of their culture.

Hopi is an Uto-Aztecan language spoken by the Hopi people of northeastern Arizona, USA, although today some Hopi are monolingual English speakers.The use of the language gradually declined over the course of the 20th century. In 1990, it was estimated that over 5,000 other people could speak Hopi natively, at least 40 of them monolingual