The University of Arizona softball team won 11-6 against No. 3 Oklahoma at Rita Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium on Feb. 6. Oklahoma built a 6-3 lead through the first four innings, but the Wildcats ...

Corn goes back to their very creation story. As the Hopi people emerged into this world, the Creator gave them three things: a gourd of water, a planting stick and a short ear of blue corn. Expand ...

KYKOTSMOVI — In the spring, as Mike Koiyaquaptewa prepared to plant corn, gusty winds whipped across the land, sending dust and sand billowing. He waited for a morning when the winds had died down, ...

Introduction -- Overview (Hopi religious ceremonies ; Hopi katsinam) -- Fourth world creation (Kelmuya) -- New life for the world (Kyaamuya ; Storytelling ; Soyalangwu (period of the Soyal ceremony)) ...

Michael Kotutwa spent the summers of his boyhood planting corn alongside his grandfather. In the sandy soils of the Colorado Plateau, they buried seeds deep into the soil, awaiting rain. Planting ...

Michael Kabotie, a Hopi artist and jeweler who was an innovator in the American Indian fine arts movement, died Oct. 23 at a Flagstaff, Ariz., hospital from complications related to H1N1 influenza, ...

Modern-day Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized tribal governments, all of which consist of their own traditions, ceremonies, and dialects. But the distinction of “federally recognized tribes” ...

Native American tribes of the Southwest like the Hopi have long valued running and racing. Now, Native-organized footraces from 5Ks to marathons carry on the tradition around the region. The Louis ...