How to Use Hopi in a Sentence

Hopi

noun

• Their descendants, the Hopi and Zuni, tell of a time of drought, the end of the rains.
  — Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2023
• The deal also includes terms for water in five washes shared by the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe.
  — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024
• The technique, known as dry farming, traces its roots back to Indigenous peoples, including the Hopi, who thrived in the arid climate in the West.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• For years, the United States had been trying to make the Hopi send their children to federal boarding schools—the children sometimes as young as four, the schools sometimes a thousand miles away.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2024
• So, some Native nations such as the Hopi are taking the matter into their own hands by building their own networks to provide high-speed internet.
  — Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• Albert explained that a lot of Hopi are really hands-on and don't always perfectly align with the mold of our education system.
  — Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2023
• The bolo tie can be traced back to the 1930s, when Zuni, Hopi, and Navajo men often wore bandanas around their necks, sometimes held together by a string, popularizing the look.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2024
• The new monument will protect thousands of cultural and sacred sites important to many area tribes, including the Havasupai Tribe and the Hopi Tribe.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2023
• In the years since, it's developed an Indigenous workforce that has installed 2.5-kilowatt off-grid solar and battery storage systems in 72 homes across the Hopi and Navajo Nations.
  — The Arizona Republic, 29 Feb. 2024
• Jacobs said about 30% of the population of the Hopi and Navajo reservations lack running water and air conditioning and aren’t near cooling centers.
  — Time, 18 July 2023
• The Field Museum plans to consult with several regional tribes — including the Hopi — on the bowl’s significance.
  — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• Facing resistance, authorities had tried bribing Hopi parents with yards of cloth, or tools like axes.
  — Zach Levitt, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• Despite opposition from others on the research team, Perry sent letters to Pueblo and Hopi tribal officers before the paper was published.
  — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 20 July 2023
• Editor’s note: Gozashti is a graduate student in the laboratory of Hopi Hoekstra, who serves on the advisory board for Quanta.
  — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 30 Mar. 2023
• Imagine if people started believing that Hopi speakers had no sense of time, whereas Yagua speakers had the most sophisticated understanding of it, and English speakers were somewhere in the middle.
  — Ross Perlin, Foreign Affairs, 23 Apr. 2024
• Here, tribal consultants have collaborated on displays of exquisite pottery, basketry, and dress by Hopi, Yavapai, and Zuni peoples, among others.
  — Leslie Camhi, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2024
• Then Yazzie’s body was found on Hopi reservation land two years later in November 2021 — and something statistically uncommon happened: Someone was arrested for her fatal shooting.
  — Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2023
• In Hopi communities, many people have tap water contaminated with toxic arsenic.
  — Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2023

Last Updated: 18 Aug 2024