ABSTRACT
The Hopi Indians of the American Southwest live in villages on top of and at the foot of rocky buttes known as mesas. The land around their windswept mesas is flat and arid with barely 30 cm of rainfall a year and a growing season of only 133 days. The Hopi believe that they owe their survival for over eight centuries in such a marginal, often hostile environment to the success of their religion, to Hopitu, which best translates as ‘the Hopi way’.
