“Becoming Hopi is the kind of volume of which archaeologists engaged with Indigenous peoples dream of being part: the result of a coequal partnership driven by the wants and needs of the community. It is accessible, multivocal, empirically driven, thought provoking, emotionally powerful, hyperlocal, and globally relevant.” - Samuel Duwe, American Antiquity“Becoming Hopi brilliantly combines Hopi and non-Hopi voices in helping to rewrite Hopi history and the process of becoming Hopi. The coverage is extensive--both for Hopi as well as for wide swaths of the northern Southwest--and each chapter has something new to offer in terms of innovative data collection and interpretation. The combination and use of traditional, archaeological, and documentary histories unfolds a rare perspective on what it means to be Hopi.” - Barbara Mills, co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology“How did Hopi farmers sustain large, stable communities in an area that previous scientific models predicted could not support a substantial population? How did waves of migration shape Hopi social organization and ritual calendars? Archaeologists, ethnographers, and Hopi cultural specialists worked collaboratively to answer these and other compelling questions.” - Kelley Hays-Gilpin, co-editor of Color in the Ancestral Pueblo Southwest
