Technology+and+environment

=Environment=

The Hopis lived in North Eastern Arizona. Arizona Is full of desserts so the Hopi engaged on dry farming. The Hopi Lived on mesas since there were lot of invaders. The Hopi villages were established on their present almost inaccessible sites for purposes of defense; and with the same object in view the builders formerly never left a door in the outer walls of the first story, access to the rooms invariably being through hatchways in the roof.They planted corn using a special method to do farming in the dessert climate.Most of the Hopis engage in dry farming, with corn as the major crop.They keep large flocks of sheep.

The Hopis are descendants of the Anasazi, a prehistoric Indian people. They have lived at their present site for about 1,000 years. The Coronado expedition visited them in 1540 and the Spanish occupied the region in 1598, but they were driven out within a century. When a Christian missionary returned and converted many persons in one pueblo, it was destroyed and all its inhabitants killed by other Hopis.The Mesas called First mesa, Second mesa and third mesa are the order of Spanish invading the hopi. Hopi Reservation is located in the high deserts of northeastern Arizona and is landlocked by the Navajo Reservation. The total land area is 1.5 million acres and the elevation ranges between 4,700 feet in the valley floors to 7,800 feet atop the northern reaches of the mesas. Temperatures range from an average daily maximum of 87°F in summer to an average daily minimum of 18°F in winter. Average annual precipitation ranges between 6 to 10 inches in lower elevations and 10 to 14 inches in higher elevations. Annual precipitation is roughly divided between summer rains and winter snowfall.

=Technology=

The hopi used tools such as an indian corn husking pin made from bear bone and the white men that invaded the hopi also made a copied the corn husking pin from the hopi that was slightly different since they needed food and the hopi would not share their food with them since the white mens tried to take over the hopi and they also used scrapers made from deers jaw made for removing green corn from its cob.

=Annotated Bibliography= "Hopi." __The Hopi__. 28 Nov. 2008 . This is a good website. This website has lot of history.A part of it was useful.

GOOD [|WEBSITE] ALERT! This website lot of facts about the culture. Most of it was useful.

This [|Website] has a lot about climate and enviroment. Most of it was useful.

Cheung,Eugenia.personal interview.Cheung,Byron. 8 Dec. 2008 My mom told me many search engines such as wikepedia.