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Community Ties
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My name is Leigh J. Kuwansiwma, I'm currently the director for the Hopi Tribes Cultural Preservation Office. Casa Grande Ruins in Hopi migration and traditional knowledge is called in Hopi language-Naas a-vee. And the word Naas a-vee means the village in the middle of the valley. The Hopi people have a general cultural interest into the greater Southwest. And into areas like Casa Grande currently is-is at. And because that is told in our migration stories so here in Naas a-vee the Bow Clan were the ruling clan here, the Greasewood Clan as well as the Bamboo Clan were among the clans that in our tradition lived here. So subsequently the place named (Naas a-vee) is carried into Hopi. And today is still used in ceremony to reflect and remember this village that this uh place is special to.
My name is Angela Garcia-Lewis. I am a member of the Gila River Indian Community. But I also have relatives at Salt River and the Tohono O'odham Nation. We are the O'odham. We have 4 different federally recognized tribes that make up our entire nation. And that’s the Gila River Indian Community, The Salt River-Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, the Ak-chin Indian Community and the Tohono O'odham Nation. A lot of the popular literature the prehistoric cultures here says that people that lived here were the Hohokam. And they were here from about 300 A. D. to about 1500. And about that time period they just up and disappeared like dust in the wind. It was, it’s a very odd concept to us here within the community because those are our ancestors. We’ve always lived here.
Description
Leigh J. Kuwanwisiwma. Director at the Hopi Tribes Cultural Preservation Office, and Angela Garcia-Lewis of the Gila River Indian Community discuss some of the Native American ties to the Casa Grande.
Duration
2 minutes, 10 seconds
Credit
NPS, movie outtakes, thanks to volunteer editor Jenise Cook
Date Created
05/09/2016
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