Hopi Projects, images, video and how you can donate and participate.
How you can support
Hopi families
Hopi Projects 2012 - 2013
We have on-going projects and take supplies year round to Hopi families, especially in support of traditional activities.
We are supporting cross-cultural exchange helping bring Hopi families to share their arts and culture at Verde Valley Archaeology Festival March and September events.
This gifting is from a place of respect and thanks acknowledging the challenges of living on an Indian reservation in remote Northeastern Arizona far from the economic resources of urban America. Hopi people sincerely carry on a tradition with roots going back thousands of years that is of importance to all the world--and is dedicated to all peoples and balance with Mother Earth.
They manage to grow corn in the high desert without irrigation--proof of their faith, endurance and ability to pray. They choose this land many centuries ago.See below list
of items needed year round
You can mail tax deductible monetary donations payable to
Crossing Worlds Foundation,
PO Box 3288, Sedona, AZ, 86340Or pay directly with credit card or electronic check here: United Charitable Program
Once there, please click on the "donate now" button for the secure web page for your payment information.Crossing Worlds Foundation is a project of United Charitable Programs, a registered 501(c)(3) public charity. All moneys raised by the Crossing Worlds Foundation are received by United Charitable Programs and become the sole property of UCP which, for internal operating purposes, allocates the funds to the Project. The Program Manager makes recommendations for disbursements which are reviewed by UCP for approval
Needed year round:
In support of ceremonies: cases of produce, bowls, dishes, tables, chairs
Donations, drive your truck to haul supplies, come provide your construction skills for repairs to homes and construction of traditional bread ovens, piki houses, etc.
Food, toiletries
Children's gifts:
sport items such as basket balls, soccor balls, baseballs, frisbees, kites; art (acrylic paints and brushes, crayons, colored pencils, drawing pads, color books) and school supplies, sports items, hair ties, learning gamesHousehold items:
sets of mixing bowls, covered containers, pots, pans, dish towels, bath towels and wash clothes, single and double bed sheets, blankets, apronsNew Clothing:
kids socks, sweatshirts and pants, sweaters, shirts, etc.-- all sizes
adults sweatshirts, jackets, sweat pants, etc.
1879 image of women's dance.
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Crossing Worlds Foundation
P.O. Box 3288
Sedona, AZ 86340
928-282-0846eMail:
info@crossingworlds.org
2011 delivering gifts through the mud.
See new 2011 Hopi Project YouTube videos here:
A devout and kind-hearted People, giving and sharing are core values.
In this exchange, both the giver and receiver are connected in the greater web of life. Year round we welcome monetary or food donations in support of Hopi traditional peoples.
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Roof Fire at Home of Hopi Traditional Family
Building Materials Funds and Construction Help WelcomedWe are inviting your participation to help this family get their 3 generations all living back in the home so they can prepare for the upcoming baby naming, wedding and ceremonial cycle activities of the year. The father of the family, who is a self-employed Hopi silver jewelry maker, and has the skills and help from village people, but in this slow economy is unable to come up with the needed $5,000 for repair materials. They will also need to raise money for new furniture, paint, triple wall stove pipe, sheet rock, etc.
We are collecting donations on their behalf (which are tax-deductible) to buy building materials. Those who are local here in Arizona, are also invited to be part of the roof and second floor repair construction project.
.Home is Center for Traditional Life
The mother of the house shared with me recently the importance of the family home in the village for their way of life. She says, “in our tradition, we keep the girls with us. The boys marry and move to their in-law’s place.”
There is a depth of symbolic meaning in all of these activities centered around the home. Much food traditional foods preparation occurs and gathering of all the relatives occurs. For example, grinding of the heirloom corn dry farmed in the the high desert is an important aspect of the wedding for the bride.Cross-Cultural Sharing:
Support for Hopis Coming to Verde Valley, Arizona for Verde Valley Archaeological Center Programs in spring and fall.
In the Verde Valley there are over 5,000 Ancestral Puebloan sites from the 11,000 years of occupation of this region. Hopi ancestors abandoned this region by about 1425, but still maintain active shrine sites throughout the valley. I will never forget in 1994 the words of the Hopi Tribal Chairman who was here to dedicate an ancestral site, Sugarloaf, which had been saved from the bulldozer by private donations who bought it and placed it in trust with the Archaeological Conservancy: "this is your heritage too." In that moment, he made me feel at home in a deeper way.
The Crossing Worlds Foundation has a goal to provide support to bring traditional Hopi people to these programs to:
--Share cultural information, arts, social dances with the interested public to provide a living connection to the descendants of the people who inhabited this valley for so many millenia. This will add cultural richness to archaeological focus. For the Hopis ancestral times and wisdom weave seamlessly with their world of today.
--Provide Hopis a chance to learn more about their ancestral sites, have a family outing in a positive learning environment where they are respected for their knowledge, give Hopi artists a chance to sell their art and traditional foods to support their life on the remote reservation. This would be a fun and rich cultural experience for reservation families to participate in.
We are seeking cash donations to provide support for Hopi families for gas, food and hotels. People with bigger vehicles could even volunteer to go to Hopi and bring a family down here and back for the weekend.
March 24-25, 2012
The Verde Valley Archaeology Fair is a new event with its inauguration during Arizona Archaeology Awareness Month in March 2012. The Fair features exhibits, demonstrations, a "archaeology for kids" area, and an International Archaeology Film Festival featuring archaeology documentaries from Germany, France, Brazil, Latvia, Australia and the United States. The Fair will include an American Indian Art Show. And we hope -- Hopi dances.Sept. 29 - 30, 2012
Festival of American Indian Art
The Verde Valley Archaeology Center recognizes the American Indian heritage of the Verde Valley with an annual Festival of American Indian Art for artists from throughout Arizona and the Southwest. The event promotes greater public appreciation and understanding of Southwest American Indian artistry, encourages artistic achievement in a variety of media and establishes a stronger market for American Indian art.The film component of the Festival provides a venue for feature films, shorts, videos and documentaries of USA American Indian and Canada First Nation communities.
All events are held in historic Camp Verde, Arizona.
For more info
Hopi, Second Mesa winter scene--a place far removed from urban America, photo by Sandra Cosentino
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