Once you lived on the plain, there you greened the desert, built canals,

grew corn and millet, looked after cattle.

Then the conquistadores came, with their crosses and horses.

You moved up to the mesas, where you could observe their moves, protect your families.

You stayed, you are still there, a small, indestructible people, beautiful, strong and patient.

Photo: North-Eastern Arizona, small Hopi village on top the Third Mesa © 2016 Honoré Dupuis

The picture shows the village Sipapuni, the hole in the sky above the lower (third) world.

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