Understanding another religion is no easy business. Americans nowadays often fool ourselves that religions can be put on or off like a suit of clothes, and that our own world-view is not religious ...

The Hopi Tribe, among others, sued to block those plans, arguing that they would prevent their First Amendment right to practice their religion. The tribes lost that case in federal court.

These masks, without which the Hopi high priests cannot conduct their most important rites, are clearly priceless, but black-market art dealers have sold them for as much as $20,000.

The Hopi religion is shrouded in secrecy, so the tribe was in a bind. Tribal leaders wanted the media's help to bring attention to the sale, but they didn't want to talk about what those items were.

Sacred Hopi and Acoma objects are displayed at the Drouot auction house in Paris prior to auction, June 10, 2015. The Native American Hopi tribe, some of whose 18,000 members continue to follow a ...

In the 1940s, when U.S. wars took the men to war, Nabhan wrote, farms around Tuba City “produced more corn than they could consume.” Since then, coal mining operations expanded on Hopi and ...

Hopi religion is fundamentally attuned to the environment and its metaphysical underpinnings. “A farmer in the desert never forgets God,” as Vernon Masayesva puts it.

The Hopi teachings not only recount cyclical events of destruction and renewal but also serve as a map for humanity’s ...

Artist Mikaela Shafer's exhibition at Portland's Center for Native Arts and Cultures takes viewers on a journey through grief, processing and healing, while Shafer explores her Hopi culture.

Looking at demographic data, a simple story about religion in the United States appears: it’s on the decline. According to Gallup, 98 percent of Americans believed in God in 1952, and only 81 ...