Indigenous Americans

• peace loving, sacrificial people

• apparently refused to fight against invading tribes, and so lost their land. want to fact check this.

• connection to dalai lama and Tibet. Tibetan myth is similar to Hopi myth.

• lovingly cultivated dry soil

• preserved oral tradition in thorough and scholarly book: The Book of Hopi

• grandmother spider <-> indras web, possible connection

Hopi Oral History Project

Restorative Justice

"The U.S. forcibly sent Hopi children to boarding schools, jailed religious leaders who resisted Christianization, and interfered with their traditional governance."

• reading: revisiting the hopi boarding school experience
• National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition
• Civilization Fund Act of 1819
• “Kill the Indian, save the man.” - A common refrain of Lt. Col. Richard Henry Pratt at Carlisle
• children were assigned new names by the government
• punished for speaking native languages
• religion replaced with christianity
  "The BIA reports from late 19th and early 20th centuries detail government policies on Native education, including boarding schools, and often describe assimilation goals explicitly."
  Carlisle Indian Industrial School Records
• reading: federal indian boarding school investigative report

Indian Law

Legislative Documents: Indian Appropriations Acts and the Indian Reorganization Act (IRA) of 1934

Library
Book of the Hopi
The Hopi Survival Kit: The Prophecies, Instructions and Warnings Revealed by the Last Elders - on the prophecies and history of the hopis