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plural Hopi or Hopis
: a member of an Indigenous people of northeastern Arizona
2
: the Uto-Aztecan language of the Hopi people
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In Arizona and New Mexico, mesas are what the Zuni and Hopi and other tribes built pueblos on.
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Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
The settlement will resolve the most significant outstanding water claims in Arizona and bring water to residents of the Navajo, Hopi and Southern San Juan Paiute tribes, among many other benefits.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024
Among the hurdles, the federal government put a 40-year development ban – known as the Bennett Freeze – across roughly 1.5 million acres of Navajo land to settle a dispute between the Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe.
—Ashley Killough, CNN, 3 July 2024
So, some Native nations such as the Hopi are taking the matter into their own hands by building their own networks to provide high-speed internet.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2024
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Ian Frazier, The New Yorker, 15 July 2024
The settlement will resolve the most significant outstanding water claims in Arizona and bring water to residents of the Navajo, Hopi and Southern San Juan Paiute tribes, among many other benefits.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 10 July 2024
Among the hurdles, the federal government put a 40-year development ban – known as the Bennett Freeze – across roughly 1.5 million acres of Navajo land to settle a dispute between the Navajo Nation and the Hopi Tribe.
—Ashley Killough, CNN, 3 July 2024
So, some Native nations such as the Hopi are taking the matter into their own hands by building their own networks to provide high-speed internet.
—Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 21 Jan. 2024
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Hopi
noun
Ho·pi
ˈhō-pē 
plural Hopi or Hopis
: a member of an Indigenous people of northeastern Arizona
also
: the language of the Hopi people
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