My wife Janice, the Hopi in the family, and I, the Pahaana in the family, decided to retire. This meant closing Tsakurshovi, our business of 35 years located on the Hopi Indian Reservation at Second Mesa on the outskirts of Janice’s…
Pahaana, that’s the Hopi word for white Americans of European ancestry, white folks, and that’s me. Being one of the few Pahaanas married to a Hopi woman and practicing the ancient Hopi custom of living at your wife’s place means…
Cultural confusion? It’s the state I live in. I am a white man living in a red man’s land. Never in a million years as a young man growing up on the southern plains of Kansas could I imagine myself…