Chicago Tribune from Chicago, Illinois • 233

Chicago Tribune, Sunday, June 24, 1984 Section 12 11 Travel V-X FOUR CORNERS I Monument ValleyjifSi. NEW fj NAVAJO INDIAN RESERVATION MEXICO Grand Canyon National Park gSlSSfiiSL RESERVATION Canyon de Chelly I fl V- vCSiEwi National Monument I rt I 'I Painted DXl Museum of Jri, Northern Arizona I LJS' Arizona ao Miles I Phoenix Oraibi fi-T I L0 rV zZS Chicago Tnbun9 Map Photo by AHrM Borcovw Mobile homes of Hopi who have relocated from their villages atop the mesa for a more modern lifestyle and to be closer to their fields. 'Win V'- s. 1 I A NN Loloma, who works with silver and. 'Just about any precious or semi-' precious stone, could chuck his life at Hotevilla on Third Mesa and live, anywhere he wanted.

Not so, says Loloma. "If I work in other cities, the work I do does not express the same depth as it would here," he explains from: his artsy combination boutiqueworkshop. "I find that being close to Hopi environment and in our activities and in, what and who we are out here is the reason that my work is being expressed the way it is, even though it is termed highly contemporary. If it is contemporary, it is because I have observed what is happening on the other side. I know what other people appreciate in terms of their personal expression or their personal adornment.

"Just for the record, I said to myself, I should stay where the great people stay and pay $175 a night for a hotel room in New York City, eat at the 21 Club. I show up at a party in a tuxedo, with my hair in Hopi style. I must be a riot in these cases. I just want to experience this type of thing to see what it feels like." Loloma considers Hopi the wellspring of his inspiration. His heritage is the source of his artistic expression.

''Perhaps I blank out other disturbing factors about this place, and I do that to appreciate the beauty that we must work Loloma explains. "This area is highly Its vibrations are present, and people have really sensed them. By living with this area, we keep in balance with ourselves in s7 have a lot of power" she says. "You take your clan from your mother, so my grandmother, Susie, she's Snake; so all her children are Snake. When my mother and father got married, my mother is Butterfly Clan, so all of us are Butterfly Clan.

If I had a brother, and he was Butterfly Clan and be got married, his children would not De Butterfly but be what his wife was. On the Hopi reservation it is the women who own the land. When a man and woman get married, the man goes and lives with the woman at her house. He works upon her land. If there is a disagreement in the marriage and she boots him out, she Just boots him out because none of it was his in the first place.

"When we harvest the com, the men go out and do all the harvesting. Once the corn enters the house, it is the woman's responsibility. She decides what gets distributed. The man's place is in the kiva. They do the ceremonies, the prayer and more or less serve as the keepers of the religion.

Women, however, are not excluded from the kivas. There are certain women societies. There is the ibasket dance in the autumn, and the women go into the kiva. It's a very isacred dance." IF THE YOUTH of the Hopi nation hold the key to the future of the tribe, then maintaining the traditions and language will probably be difficult. Debbie Secakuku agrees with her father that some of the tradition is fading.

"I know there are a lot of kids my age who still want to preserve the culture, the language and all that, but then there also are many who don't care either way," she says. "I think that is due a lot to our educational system. We have schools here, but they only go up through Grade 8. After that we attend boarding schools off the reservation. Children are gone at that time in their lives when they start to learn a lot and get.

involved in the ceremonies. A few years back a girl my age would probably know a lot more than I do now. The things I do know now I would have learned earlier. It's really hard." The sense of a fading culture troubles Debbie. "Hopi are people, language.

And once you see! that go, I don't know what will be. It's a scary feeling. I try to imagine myself in another nationality, being a white American female, and I try to picture myself in that environ-: jment. I Just can't think of myself being that person. I think some of the traditions will still go on, but-1 think some of the meaning might have gone.

"My sisters, family and myself 'we're really into trying to learn all the. traditions because we know that when we get older it's going to be up 'I try to imagine myself in another nationality, being a white American female, and I try to picture myself in that environment. I just can't think of myself being that person Debbie Secakuku If I work in other cities, the work I do does not have the same depth as it would here. You have to respect the culture. You have to take care of it.

Watch it. Maintain it. Nurse it Charles Loloma Indians put welcome blanket out at Hopi Cultural Center crmvn ucci n.a Aaoi. n- erramhlpH tnopfhpr fnr 5 151f lnivViAnn srwinl- Tn TTlnootaff ho Mnuiim nf Nnrthprn Ar SECOND MESA. Aril.

There's oasis for scrambled together for $2,151: luncheon special In Flagstaff, the Museum of Northern Arizona one ties as nok qui vi traditional Hopi stew made with corn and lamb served with fresh-baked' green chilis and fried bread for $3.75 or a Hopi tostado fried bread topped with refried beans, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes and onions for $2.55.. For dinner there are traditional Anglo dishes: T-bone steak, fried chicken, $3.95 plus nightly specialties. Visitors can shop for pottery, coiled baskets 'and plaques, wicker baskets, kachina dolls and silver overlay jewelery. Prices run the gamut on all crafts. Quality work does not come cheap.

One can jet a good idea of prices and quality at Honani Crafts at the Hopi Cultural Center. For background on the Hopi before visiting the reservation, travelers should stop at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, which has outstanding displays of southwest Indian art and artifacts, ana this October will open its permanent collection on Native Peoples of the the visitor who wants to spend a night or two on the Hopi Indian Reservation. It the Hopi Cultural Center on Second Mesa, with 33 guest rooms, a restaurant, several crafts shops and a museum. The center is on Ariz. Hwy.

264, 5 miles west of the intersection with Ariz. 87. Rates are $35 a couple for a room with TV, $33 without. Singles are $32 with TV and $30 without. The next nearest accommodations are in Keams Canyon, 19 miles east of Second Mesa; Flagstaff, 90 miles to the west; and Winslow, 63 miles south.

A RESTAURANT attached to the Cultural Center recently was remodeled. In additional to usual American fare hamburgers, patty melts and chicken fried steak there are Hopi breakfast specialties, such as so qua vik ka vike two pancaxes made of Hopi blue corn meal for $1.90 or ki ve nova fried potatoes and two eggs: has a fine display oh the Hopi. INFORMATION and reservations can be obtained from the Hopi Cultural Center, P.O. Box 67, Second Mesa, Ariz. 86043, or by phoning 602-734-2401.

Among the other Arizona reservations open to visitors are the Papago 602-383-2221, Gila River 602-562-3311, Colorado River 602-669-9211, Hualapai 602-769-2216, Havasupai 602-448-2121, Navajo 602-871-4941 and Apache 602-338-4346. Additional information on the state's Indian reservation is available from the Arizona Office of Tourism, 3507 N. Central Suite 506, Phoenix, Ariz. 85012 or by phoning 602-255-3618. Additional information about' visiting Indian reservations throughout the country is available from the U.S.

Department of Interior, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Washington, D.C. 20245. Alfred Borcover terms ot creating Deauty Deyona what we even see." s. t. Despite his success and business, activities, Loloma still participates in Hopi ceremonies.

"Over a period of time, you realize that you never really fully realize the total-ness of the spirit, and each 'year things become richer. Cer-. tain things accumulate, and then you' are equipped with more. And perhaps, is the way things grow. But you have to respect the culture for' that to happen.

You cannot collect You have to take care of it. Watch it. Maintain it. Nurse it." However, it is neither tourism nor the older Hopi who have achieved individual success that most threatens the future of the Hopi way of life. Rather it is the influence of outside society on the young.

"Everything in school is taught in explains Secakuku as he kicks at the dry soil with his cowboy boots and points out a pear tree, a red delicious apple tree and an Alberta peach tree alongside his home. All grow in Hopi orchards. "Hopi is not a written language. So it is dying off. They don't learn Hopi.

There are a few of us who try to keep the traditions so they won't die out. But there is too much influence from western culture." FERRELL SECAKUKU'S 20-year-old daughter, Debbie, is a case in point. She traveled for a year in the U.S. and Europe with the entertainment troupe Up With People and to us to carry Hopi culture on to our children and grandchildren. That's a big responsibility.

I try to say I would like to see myself as my grandparents because they do know a lot. All I can say is that I will try hard to be like them, but I don't know if I will. Ask me in another 20 years." Chicago Trtbuna time entertainment. But there's always something to do with our traditional ways. Debbie Secakuku also speaks of Hopi traditions that accord a special position to women.

"We were probably the first women libbers around the women As for her view of Second Mesa after her travels, she says: "It's home. There have been times when I was in Europe, and it was so green that I once thought to myself that I would like to live there. But then there's Just something missing elsewhere. I enjoy living here. There's not much to do as tar as modern- very much intact.

If you were to visit any other tribes, you would see that their cultures aren't intact or are on the verge of extinction. We have ceremonies the year around, based on our own calendar. It's not your basic calendar nowadays, but a ceremonial calendar we've been using for centuries." now represents her people as Miss Hopi. a goodwill ambassador. Waiting to enroll at Northern Arizona University this fall, she works with mentally retarded Hopi, at Keams Canyon and with the Special Olympics.

She talks about being Hopi: "It's very special. Our culture is iBinftst rant aft I 1 .1 an nwrnr nn HISTORICAL AND CULTURAL TOURS Departs Chicago: June 27 July 11 July 25 From New York: July 4 July 17 AM ORLANDO from CHICAGO OuniTGD AiRLines NON-STOP AIR CAR TV- 1 Islands! i ROUND-TRIP JAL AIR FARE AND FIRST CLASS HOTEL ACCOMODATIONS 14 DAYS (7-CHINA7-JAPAN) No Mileage Charge Rent an '84 automatic subcompact for a week or more and FROM yO PER PERSON2 ADULTS substitute '84 Lincoln for any one of the inclusive days. This promotional rate can be split between islands of Oahu, Maul, Kauai in seven 24-hour segments. Additional days, $12.99. No minimum day penalty.

cbcc ariMiccirtfcic inner rc umuaii'C i EAniMA I fl 3 ATTRACTIONS. see your iravei geni PH0KE TOLL FREE 800-527-0700 RGEDDAIlIinQDRJ HAWAII'S LARGEST RENTAL COMPANY WITH OVER 6,000 NEW CARS: CONVERTIBLES, JEEPS, VANS, LUXURYCARS. featuring Lincoln Mercury. At the airports on Oahu. Maul, Kauai and Hawaii plus Waikiki.

Bates subject to change without notice. Gas, tax and optional protection are additional. 24-hour advance reservation requlred. tours inc. Florida's Largest tour wholesaler, call your travel agent.

PACIFICO CREATIVE SERVICE, INC. tf imJ'J 225 North Michigan Suite 1208, Chicago, IL 60601.