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“We write about what we know, what we love, and we then build a dream scenario about those facts. When I lived in northern Arizona I was living a dream existence, except it wasn't perfect. So I retold the story, but made it more exciting, and much closer to perfect.”

Artist Mystical Murder Mystery Arizona Amateur Sleuth Illustrator Navajo Hopi

Book:Blue Moon Bench

Source: Blue Moon Bench

“James hoped the newsletter would garner support from Bahana, or white people, to stop a town well that the Bureau of Indian Affairs wanted to dig and a tower it wanted to erect to store the water. The Hotevilla elders were willing to lay down their lives in this battle. They’d done it before, preventing the BIA from bringing electricity to the village by lying down in front of bulldozers. If that well went in, James explained, people would waste water. Their spring would dry out- an unthinkable tragedy, as it would make it impossible for them to live there any longer. Could two cultures be any different? I now wondered. We were taking federal money to mine water and would do so until the unlikely day that same government made us stop. The Hopi had been trying to prevent the government from giving them a well in the first place.”

Water Wilderness Natural Resources Hopi

Book:The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning

Source: The Ogallala Road: A Memoir of Love and Reckoning

“Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts.”

Native American Wisdom Indians Hopi

Author:Hopi Proverb

“Human beings should protect all children. But among the ancient Hopis a "human being" was one who spoke and lived by truth while those who did not; were not..”

Humans Humanity Hopi

Book:Random Molecular Mirroring

Source: Random Molecular Mirroring