Live Auction – Experience Hopi
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Live Auction Package: Experience Hopi
Package #4
Value: $850
Starting Bid: $650
The value and starting bid are subject to change if items are added.
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This package currently includes a one-night stay at Moenkopi Legacy Inn & Suites, an Experience Hopi tour for two people, and a handmade wooden and beaded kachina from Suncountry Traders, and $200 to stay at Sedona Sacred Rocks bed and breakfast, with more items possibly added.
The Hopi people have lived in the American Southwest for countless centuries. Original inhabitants of land areas including present day Arizona, Colorado, and Utah.
The modern Hopi reservation is spread over 1.5 million acres, to the northeast of Flagstaff. The 11 main Hopi villages are clustered among the tops of three mesas across three mesas that serve as the concentration points of the Hopi community. Old Oraibi, located on Third Mesa, is considered the oldest continuously inhabited community in the United States. The Hopi are comprised of many different clans that moved across the north and South American continent before being drawn to Tuwanasavi, the Center of the Universe, the current land base of the Hopi in Arizona. Many historic ruins are a part of this history and are the ancient homes of the Hopi and other pueblo peoples, such as Mesa Verde, Canyon De Chelly, Betatkin, and Wupatki
The Hopi are stewards of the Earth, here because Maasaw entrusted the Center of the Universe to their care. They are connected to the land, water, and agricultural cycles. Their values are rooted in respect and mutual care – sumi’nangwa, nami’nangwa, and hita’nangwa.
Hotel & Tour
The Moenkopi Legacy Inn & Suites is conveniently located at the western gateway to Hopi tribal lands. The Legacy Inn can be your home base to explore the American Southwest – Grand Canyon to the west, Horseshoe Bend, Antelope Canyon, Lake Powell, and Monument Valley to the north, the Painted Desert to the south, and Canyon de Chelly to the east. Hopi people have lived on the mesas of northeastern Arizona for over 1,000 years.
Take an Experience Hopi tour departing right from our hotel lobby with an authorized Hopi Guide and Experience comfort, Experience hospitality, Experience Hopi. The Hopi mesas and experience one of North America’s oldest yet vibrant Native American cultures. Your Experience Hopi Guide will share the heritage of the Hopi as you travel in comfort across the mesas. Tours depart daily from the lobby of the Moenkopi Legacy Inn & Suites. Settle back in captain’s chair seating with individual LED lighting and air as your Experience Hopi Guide describes the sights and tells you about Hopi heritage on the custom sound system. Chilled bottled water is on board and lunch is included on full day tours.
Respect for Hopi cultural privacy and rules is key for visitors. No photography or sketching in the villages is allowed at any time. Please click here for Visitor Etiquette from the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office.
Half Corn Maiden / Half Koshare Katsinam (Kachina)
Hopi artist Ferrell Zeena created this half-Corn Maiden / half-Koshare kachina out of carved wood with a flawless overlay of bead work done with the peyote stitch.
Corn is the staff of life, and also represents the four directions. The presence of a Hopi Corn Maiden symbolizes the people’s prayer for corn and a bountiful harvest. The Koshare (or the Pueblo clowns) are jesters or tricksters. The clowns perform during the spring and summer fertility rites.
Hopi people live primarily on three mesas in Northeastern Arizona. In Hopi cosmology, the majority of katsinas reside on the Humphreys Peak. Each year, from winter solstice to mid-July, these spirits, in the form of katsinas, come down to the villages to dance and sing, to bring rain for the upcoming harvest, and to give gifts to the children. The katsinas are known to be the spirits of deities, natural elements or animals, or the deceased ancestors of the Hopi. Prior to each katsina ceremony, the men of the village will spend days studiously making figures in the likeness of the katsinam represented in that particular ceremony. The figures are then passed on to the daughters of the village by the Giver Kachina during the ceremony. Following the ceremony, the figures are hung on the walls of the pueblo and are meant to be studied in order to learn the characteristics of that certain Kachina.Copy to a new draft
Sedona Sacred Rocks
There is a Hopi legend of Palatkwapi. This is the “Red House” – a city of wisdom built by the Kachinas where they taught important rituals and secrets of the universe. No one knows for sure where this was located. Was it a city of the Aztec in Teotihuacan, or the Suma of Paquimé in Chihuahua, or of the Q’ero in Peru, or was it of the Sinagua of the Verde Valley, from whence the Hopi originated? It’s easy to believe this ancient city was seated at the red earth spires of Sedona, because there is no denying the magic there – a cathedral without walls, a meeting place for travelers for thousands of years, brimming with life while surrounded by desert. And, regardless of one’s personal spiritual beliefs, Sedona’s natural beauty induces an awe and reverence for the earth and sky.
Along your journey of exploring the Hopi culture and history, use your $200 gift certificate to stay at the Sedona Sacred Rocks bed and breakfast. Formerly a Buddhist Retreat Center, Sedona Sacred Rocks rests on two secluded red rock acres adjoining two thousand acres of the Coconino National Forest. You can choose from an upstairs apartment, three private rooms in the main lodge (all with shared community kitchen), and other unique spaces such as the Tiny House. Rates are $49-119 per night.
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