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Oraibi (ōrī`bē), pueblo, N Ariz., on a mesa N of Winslow. It was built c.1150 and was discovered in 1540 by Pedro de Tovar, a lieutenant of Coronado. The mission of San Francisco, established on the site in 1629, was destroyed in the Pueblo revolt of 1680. Oraibi was long the most important pueblo of the Hopi Hopi , group of the Pueblo, formerly called Moki, or Moqui. They speak the Hopi language, which belongs to the Uto-Aztecan branch of the Aztec-Tanoan linguistic stock, at all their pueblos except Hano, where the language belongs to the Tanoan branch of the
..... Click the link for more information. , but because of economic disturbances and internal dissension many of the inhabitants left in 1907 to form the pueblos of Hotevila and Bakavi. Oraibi is now little more than a ruin. BibliographySee M. Titiev, Old Oraibi: A Study of the Hopi Indians of the Third Mesa (1944, repr. 1967). Want to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit the webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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No references found | The officer said the tent was set up at the beginning of Ramadan for an Emirati family in front of their house in Al Oraibi area, where men get together during Ramadan evenings. The court papers say Selser showed off a kachina mask he said he got from the Hopi Third Mesa -- which includes Old Oraibi, the oldest inhabited village in the United States, existing since around A. Participating artists include painters Adnan Achmed, Faika Al Hassan and Jaffar Al Oraibi from Bahrain and Marion Labani and Monika Al Fehaid from Germany, sculptors Ali Al Mahmeed, Fuad Albinfalah and Khalil Hashimi from Bahrain and photographers Khalil Hammad from Bahrain and Manfred Erber and Steffi de Vos from Germany. |
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