The **Hopi** (''Hopituh Shi-nu-mu - ''"The Peaceful People" or "Peaceful
Little Ones")are an indigenous, [agricultural](Agriculture "wikilink")
people in present-day "[Arizona](United_States_of_America "wikilink")"
with a tradition of egalitarianism, [gender
equality](Gender_Equality "wikilink"), [common
ownership](Commons "wikilink") and
[anarcho-communist](Anarcho-Communism "wikilink") economics.

## Decision-Making

Each village was autonomous and determined its social and ceremonial
organization according to its own interpretation of clan migration
traditions.\[1\] Households [confederated](Confederation "wikilink")
into clans, clans into phatries, phatries into villages and villages
into Mesas. There are thirteen villages and three Mesas.\[2\]

## Crime

[Violence](Violence "wikilink") and [crime](crime "wikilink") was
extremely rare in Hopi society.\[3\] [Peter
Gelderloos](Peter_Gelderloos "wikilink") describes an interesting system
of [restorative justice](Restorative_Justice "wikilink"):

## Economy

## Culture

## Collapse

The US government destroyed Hopi autonomy in 1890, as the Dawes Act
forcibly imposed [private property](Private_Property "wikilink") onto
their lands.\[4\] In 1934, the US forced a tribal government onto them
made up of religious converts, who leased their lands to mining
companies who profited from [coal, natural gas](Fossil_Fuel "wikilink")
and metal extraction. This dispossessed the Hopi and polluted the
land.\[5\]

## References

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1.  Maria Danuta Glowacka (1998) Ritual Knowledge in Hopi Tradition.
2.  Diane M. Notarianni (1996) Making Mennonites: Hopi Gender Roles and
    Christian Transformations.
3.  Fred Eggan (1960) Social Organization of the Western Pueblos
4.  [Ward Churchill](Ward_Churchill "wikilink") (1993) The Struggle for
    Land
5.  Peter Spotswood Dillard (2006) The Unconquered Remnant: The Hopis
    and Voluntaryism