Hopi Reservation

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The Hopi Reservation is a Native American reservation for the Hopi and Arizona Tewa people -- surrounded entirely by the Navajo Reservation -- in Navajo and Coconino counties of Arizona, USA. The site in north-eastern Arizona has a land area of 6,557.262 km² (2,531.773 sq mi) and as of the 2000 census had a population of 6,946. The Hopi Reservation, like most of Arizona but unlike the surrounding Navajo Nation, does not observe Daylight Saving Time. Until recently, the two nations shared the Navajo-Hopi Joint Use Area. The partition of this area, commonly known as Big Mountain, by Acts of Congress in 1974 and 1996, has resulted in seemingly endless controversy.[1][2][3]

The system of villages are based around three mesas in the traditional pueblo style which has been traditionally used by the Hopi. Walpi is the oldest village on First Mesa, having been established in 1690 after the villages at the foot of mesa Koechaptevela was abandoned for fear of Spanish reprisal post 1680 Pueblo Revolt. The Tewa people live on First Mesa. Hopis also occupy the Second Mesa, and Third Mesa. The community of Winslow West is off-reservation trust land of the Hopi tribe.

The Hopi Tribal Council is the local governing body consisting of elected officials from the various reservation villages. Its powers were given to it under the Hopi Tribal Constitution. The Hopis consider their life on the reservation (in particular the traditional clan residence and kivas on the mesa) and their great dependence on corn an integral part the "fourth world", and lose their current cultural epoch in which all people of the world now live.

Hopi High School is the secondary education institute for reservation residents. Hopi Radio, a station with a mix of traditional Hopi and typical American programming is run for the reservation and provides internships for Hopi High School.