As some of you may know, for thirty five years, my wife, Janice, the Hopi in the family, and I, the white guy in the family, operated Tsakurshovi, a shop on the Hopi Rez in Arizona. We had a unique…
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…
My wife Janice, AKA the boss, who is Hopi, owns a small shop called Tsakurshovi on the outskirts of the Hopi village of Songòopavi and that is where we both work. A substantial part of our business is local Hopi…
So I get this email from Stiles telling me that he thinks it’s a good idea that my next dispatch should be about, “how you ‘two kids’ met”. I swear I’m not making this up. He evidently forgot that the…
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…
On July 25th I received an email from Jim Hook who, along with his wife Luanne, are owners of the legendary Recapture Lodge in Bluff Utah. The Recapture Lodge was founded by Gene and Mary Foushee. The email said simply, “Sorry to…