Hopi Songs

Hopi Hoekstra

You are a Curator of Mammals, what does a Mammal Curator do? I head the mammal collection at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ). The collection comprises specimens collected as early as the 1830s, the red squirrel series collected by Louis Agassiz (one of Darwin’s biggest foes), and hundreds of type specimens, including that of Gorilla gorilla. I have a terrific staff that looks afte...

Health of the Navajo-Hopi Indians.

Mapping the Hopi Landscape for Cultural Preservation

For the Hopi people, named places on the landscape localize, commemorate, and transmit traditional knowledge within a spatial context used to reference and explain Hopi history and culture—geographic information the Hopi Tribe seeks to preserve. This paper discusses the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office’s use of geospatial technologies during recent collaborative efforts to document important p...

Dietary Mineral Ecology of the Hopi

ABSTRAC1.-The Hopi are considered one of America's oldest Native Indian groups who continue to live on traditional lands. In modem times, they have relinquished many of their earlier cultural practices, including those related to agriculture and diet. Foods consumed have changed from the earlier panern of corn, beans, and squash, augmented with wild plants and animals to a contemporary diet whi...

Obesity and pulmonary function in Navajo and Hopi children.

BACKGROUND Although several reports have shown an adverse cardiovascular and metabolic risk profile associated with childhood obesity, few reports have examined the effects of childhood obesity on pulmonary function. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the influence of obesity on pulmonary function in Navajo and Hopi children. METHODS Subjects included 256 (110 males, 146 fem...