The Hopi Social Dancers Book of Prints
John Running's Very Special Portraits
The Hopi Dancers hold a very special place in John Running's heart. These photographs are the result of the immense respect John has for these wonderful people and for the very first time John is making these wonderful portraits available for purchase.
According to Hopi oral tradition, the Hopi are a gathering of diverse groups representing clans from different areas, now identifying culturally as one group of people with a single language. Athabascan migrations from Canada (forming the modern Navajo and Apache nations) ending as late as the 15th century may have caused the Hopi move from original village locations at the bottoms of mesas to the tops where these villages could be defended. Popularly these are known as First, Second and Third Mesas because of their order of Spanish encounter. In contrast, the formerly nomadic Navajo typically live in small family groups now widely distributed across northeastern Arizona, southeastern Utah, southwestern Colorado and northwestern New Mexico. The Hopi have been village dwellers for many centuries (nine villages existed at the arrival of the Spanish —Sikyatki, Koechaptevela, Kisakovi, Sichomovi, Mishongnovi, Shipaulovi, Shungopavi, Oraibi and Awatovi).
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