Talk:Wupatki National Monument

Spiritual guardians
Does this need an "attention from an expert" tag? Because I seriously doubt the Hopi would consider the deceased inhabitants of Wupatki to remain on as "spiritual guardians"; from what I know of their afterlife beliefs dead people only stay around when something is wrong, I'm pretty sure they're supposed to go to the afterlife and never return (I think the afterlife might be connected with the Emergence thing, like it is with the Navajo). Do the Hopi have any ancestor-worship as such? Reverence for ancestors and traditions isn't the same thing. Nagakura shin8 (talk) 10:42, 16 November 2012 (UTC)


 * The statement in question is documented on the National Park Service website. I know very little about the Hopi and their beliefs but I think you should have a reliable source that supports you contention before the statement is removed.&#32;– droll  &#91;chat&#93;  20:06, 16 November 2012 (UTC)


 * I didn't say a word about removing the statement, I said the article needs attention from an expert. Obviously, I'm only bothering an expert because I don't have such a source myself. Nagakura shin8 (talk) 07:13, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

It is my understanding that because of the blow hole the Hopi connote spiritual significance to the site, but the significance is associated with the breath of the gods not the previous inhabitants. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.85.73.109 (talk) 19:45, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

Additional sources
There's a lot of work that could be done on this article, I think it would especially benefit from the addition of material from the following sources:

Sunset Crater Archaeology: The History of a Volcanic Landscape, edited by Scott Van Keuren, Mark D. Elson and Sarah A. Herr, Anthropological Papers No. 32 Center for Desert Archaeology, 2007

and

Wupatki Pueblo: A Study in Cultural Fusion and Change in Sinagua and Hopi Prehistory, Ph.D Dissertation by Michael Barr Stanislawski, University of Arizona, 1963

I have about two dozen other sources, mostly shorter papers, that relate to it as well, but those two would be the most helpful. They can currently be found online in various places like academia.edu and researchgate

The naming confusion should be clarified ("Wupatki" means "long cut" or "it was cut long" and originally referred to an incident at what is now known as "Wukoki" nearby; "Wukoki" is the one that means "wide house" or "tall house" and they were mixed up in the early 1900s), mention of the macaw and dog burials would be nice, the water situation could be expanded upon (there were in fact at least two springs nearby up until the 1960s, but they dried up with the loss of groundwater from damming of the Little Colorado; rainwater collection was inferred from the location of two pots found placed under rock overhangs and from small rock check dams for agriculture), and some mention should be made of the Peshlakai family of Navajos who lived in Wupatki from the late 1800s through the mid 1900s.

I might add some of this, but I might not get around to it - time being the enemy of improvement - so I'm putting this up for future reference. Asdjk48 (talk) 20:42, 8 March 2021 (UTC)

Filming of Easy Rider
A camping scene of Easy Rider was filmed here. --2003:C6:3724:4BA3:E81F:1354:95D1:A167 (talk) 08:58, 2 January 2022 (UTC)