How to Use Hopi in a Sentence

Hopi

noun

• The Hopi then arrived, planting crops such as corn and peaches.
  — Derek M. Norman, Chicago Tribune, 8 Jan. 2025
• Their descendants, the Hopi and Zuni, tell of a time of drought, the end of the rains.
  — Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2023
• There was a Hopi guide who took us through parts of the Grand Canyon and told us about the stories there from his culture.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 30 Sep. 2024
• Her parents moved to Hopi after marrying and lived without running water or electric service.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 28 Nov. 2024
• Facing resistance, authorities had tried bribing Hopi parents with yards of cloth, or tools like axes.
  — Zach Levitt, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• The deal also includes terms for water in five washes shared by the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe.
  — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024
• Albert explained that a lot of Hopi are really hands-on and don't always perfectly align with the mold of our education system.
  — Lacey Latch, The Arizona Republic, 24 May 2023
• 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, The Mercury News, 19 Jan. 2024
• This required Navajos still residing on Hopi partition lands to sign a 75-year lease with the Hopi Tribe.
  — Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 31 Dec. 2024
• The technique, known as dry farming, traces its roots back to Indigenous peoples, including the Hopi, who thrived in the arid climate in the West.
  — Tony Briscoe, Los Angeles Times, 7 Dec. 2023
• In the past, parents who refused to send their kids faced jail time, including 19 Hopi men who were imprisoned at Alcatraz for the crime of not letting go of their children.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, The Arizona Republic, 25 Oct. 2024
• For years, the United States had been trying to make the Hopi send their children to federal boarding schools—the children sometimes as young as four, the schools sometimes a thousand miles away.
  — Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2024
• Plus, Stanley claimed at his 1893 show to have learned the mysterious healing powers of snake oil from the Hopi tribe, a statement that has gone unverified.
  — Jordan Friedman, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 Oct. 2024
• The Field Museum plans to consult with several regional tribes — including the Hopi — on the bowl’s significance.
  — Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• Despite opposition from others on the research team, Perry sent letters to Pueblo and Hopi tribal officers before the paper was published.
  — Mary Hudetz, ProPublica, 20 July 2023
• Jacobs said about 30% of the population of the Hopi and Navajo reservations lack running water and air conditioning and aren’t near cooling centers.
  — Time, 18 July 2023
• The new monument will protect thousands of cultural and sacred sites important to many area tribes, including the Havasupai Tribe and the Hopi Tribe.
  — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 10 Aug. 2023
• The bolo tie can be traced back to the 1930s, when Zuni, Hopi, and Navajo men often wore bandanas around their necks, sometimes held together by a string, popularizing the look.
  — Christian Allaire, Vogue, 28 Feb. 2024
• The Hopi-Choctaw artist born in 1947 has been at the vanguard of contemporary Native American art since enrolling as a member of the first class of 140 students at the Institute of American Indian Art in Santa Fe, NM in 1962.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 26 Aug. 2025