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The Hopi are a group of Shoshonean-speaking American Indians living in the well-known pueblo type of “primitive apartment-house” towns placed on and at the foot of three mesas in northeastern Arizona. They have been settled there since about 1200 A.D. (Aberle). The original Hopi reservation was established by executive order in 1882 (Born A Chief). The history of the Hopi, though it contains little aggressive warfare, is full of conflict with the Spanish, with non-Pueblo Indians, …

…weather in winter and hail in the summer, and the decrease of forage as a result of soil erosion. Trading of various goods is also done in Hopi villages with other Pueblo Indians, with and through the Navaho, and also with the white traders. About 54 percent of Hopi income (including goods produced for consumption only) derives from agriculture, about 10 percent from livestock, a little more than 1 percent from trade, and about 32 percent from wages (Aberle)