a member of the Shoshonean people of northeastern Arizona
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the Shoshonean language spoken by the Hopi
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The Hopi Indian tribe's religious beliefs have accomplished what giant spiders, ancient booby-traps, murder-minded ruffians and supernatural events failed to do _ halt the movie adventurer Indiana Jones.
Mr. West has a remarkable gift for mimickry; in a previous novel, "The Place in Flowers Where Pollen Rests," he convincingly assumed the voices of Hopi Indians.
The village has threatened a blockade, but Hopi police said they knew of no attempts to disrupt the filming, which began Monday.
Oswald Beautiful Badger Going Over the Hill (it's shorter in Hopi), Mr. West's new protagonist, has an even harder time of things before reaching the level of self-discovery.
In addition, actor Jon Voight carried the religious objections of Hopi tribal elders to Lucasfilm executives, Marshall said.
Tribal officials gave permission for filming on the reservation, saying they had been assured by Redford'sproduction company that the movie would be sensitive to Hopi culture and religion.
FBI agents have seized a 150-year-old tribal mask on display at an antiques show that a Hopi priest said was stolen from an Arizona Indian reservation about seven months ago.
Iron Eyes Cody intones the opening lines of "Lakota," a pulsing Hopi lament.
The reservation _ made up of Mohave, Chemehuevi, Navajo and Hopi Indians _ launched a boycott of Davis' hardware store in Parker, and in April the tribes bought some city land and opened their own hardware store.