Editing Hopi (section)

==Culture==
[[File:Kachina dolls.jpg|thumb|250px|Illustration of [[Hopi katsina figures]]]]
[[File:Tile, late 19th-early 20th century, X1047.7.jpg|thumbnail|left|Tile, Hopi, late 19th-early 20th century, [[Brooklyn Museum]]]]
{{Further|Hopi mythology}}
The ''Hopi Dictionary'' gives the primary meaning of the word "Hopi" as: "behaving one, one who is mannered, civilized, peaceable, polite, who adheres to the Hopi Way".<ref name="auto1"/> Some sources contrast this to other warring tribes that subsist on plunder,<ref name= "auto2"/> considering their [[Exonym and endonym|autonym]], ''Hopisinom'' to mean "The Peaceful People" or "Peaceful Little Ones".<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=http://www.ausbcomp.com/redman/hopi.htm |title=Hopi: The Real Thing |publisher=Ausbcomp.com |date=2000 |first=L. Michael |last=Smith |archive-date=2019-05-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190501001513/http://www.ausbcomp.com/redman/hopi.htm |url-status=dead }}</ref> However, Malotki maintains that "neither the notion 'peaceful' nor the idea 'little' are semantic ingredients of the term".<ref>{{ Citation | last = Malotki | first = Ekkehart | author-link = Ekkehart Malotki | date = 1991 | title = Language as a key to cultural understanding: New interpretations of Central Hopi concepts | journal = Baessler-Archiv | volume = 39 | pages = 43–75 }}</ref>

According to Barry Pritzker, "...many Hopi feel an intimate and immediate connection with their past. Indeed, for many Hopi, time does not proceed in a straight line, as most people understand it. Rather, the past may be past and present more or less simultaneously.". In the present Fourth World, the Hopi worship Masauwu, who admonished them to "always remember their gods and to live in the correct way". The village leader, ''kikmongwi'', "promoted civic virtue and proper behavior".<ref name="bp">{{cite book |last1=Pritzker |first1=Barry |title=The Hopi |date=2011 |publisher=Chelsea House |location=New York |isbn=9781604137989 |pages=16–17, 25}}</ref>

Traditionally, Hopi are organized into [[matrilineal]] clans. When a man marries, the children from the relationship are members of his wife's clan. These clan organizations extend across all villages. Children are named by the women of the father's clan. On the 20th day of a baby's life, the women of the paternal clan gather, each woman bringing a name and a gift for the child. In some cases where many relatives would attend, a child could be given over 40 names, for example. The child's parents generally decide the name to be used from these names. Current practice is to either use a non-Hopi or English name or the parent's chosen Hopi name. A person may also change the name upon initiation into one of the religious societies, such as the [[kachina]] society, or with a major life event.{{citation needed|date=January 2018}}

The Hopi practice a complete cycle of traditional ceremonies although not all villages retain or had the complete ceremonial cycle. These ceremonies take place according to the [[lunar calendar]] and are observed in each of the Hopi villages. Like other Native American groups, the Hopi have been influenced by Christianity and the missionary work of several Christian denominations. Few have converted enough to Christianity to drop their traditional religious practices.{{citation needed|date=September 2024}}
[[File:Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1895) (18739323374).jpg|thumb|Hopi "Snake Dance"]]
The most widely publicized of Hopi katsina rites is the "Snake Dance", an annual event during which the performers danced while handling live snakes.<ref>{{cite web |title=Hopi people |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hopi |date=28 March 2008 |work=Encyclopædia Britannica |language=en}}</ref>

Traditionally the Hopi are micro or subsistence farmers. The Hopi also are part of the wider cash economy; a significant number of Hopi have mainstream jobs; others earn a living by creating Hopi art, notably the carving of katsina dolls, the crafting of earthenware ceramics, and the design and production of fine jewelry, especially sterling silver.

The Hopi collect and dry a native perennial plant called ''[[Thelesperma megapotamicum]]'', known by the common name Hopi tea, and use it to make an [[herbal tea]], as a medicinal remedy and a yellow dye.<ref>{{cite web|title=Medicinal Plants of the Southwest Thelesperma megapotamicum|url=http://medplant.nmsu.edu/thelesperma.shtm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509161539/http://medplant.nmsu.edu/thelesperma.shtm|url-status=dead|archive-date=9 May 2008|publisher=New Mexico State University|access-date=26 February 2014}}</ref>