How to Use Hopi in a Sentence
Hopi
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Hopi Fire has burned seven acres of private land.
—Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 23 Aug. 2025
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The Hopi then arrived, planting crops such as corn and peaches.
—Derek M. Norman, Chicago Tribune, 2025-01-08
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Their descendants, the Hopi and Zuni, tell of a time of drought, the end of the rains.
—Wade Davis, Rolling Stone, 2023-09-03
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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, 2024-09-30
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The deal also includes terms for water in five washes shared by the Navajo Nation and Hopi Tribe.
—Arlyssa D. Becenti, The Arizona Republic, 2024-03-01
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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, 2024-01-21
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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, 2024-01-19
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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, 2023-12-07
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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, 2024-04-29
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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, 2024-10-21
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The Field Museum plans to consult with several regional tribes — including the Hopi — on the bowl’s significance.
—Julia Jacobs, New York Times, 2024-02-21
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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, 2023-07-20
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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, 2023-07-18
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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, 2023-08-10
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Editor’s note: Gozashti is a graduate student in the laboratory of Hopi Hoekstra, who serves on the advisory board for Quanta.
—Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 2023-03-30
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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, 2024-02-28
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Despite a high-profile search, her remains were not found until November 2021 on the neighboring Hopi reservation in northeastern Arizona.
—CBS News, 2024-09-24
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Imagine if people started believing that Hopi speakers had no sense of time, whereas Yagua speakers had the most sophisticated understanding of it, and English speakers were somewhere in the middle.
—Ross Perlin, Foreign Affairs, 2024-04-23
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For Hopi, the settlement is a path to ensuring a reliable water supply and infrastructure for the health, well-being and economic prosperity of the tribe for generations to come, Hopi said in a statement late Thursday.
—Susan Montoya Bryan, Fortune, 2024-05-24
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Then Yazzie’s body was found on Hopi reservation land two years later in November 2021 — and something statistically uncommon happened: Someone was arrested for her fatal shooting.
—Emily Palmer, Peoplemag, 2023-10-05
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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
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