IKE MANY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE, Hopi refer to our crops as children. When we entered this world after the third world was destroyed, we met the caretaker of this world, the spiritual deity Maasaw. He gave us permission to stay, saying that if we lived as humbly as he did, taking care of the lands and planting our fields, we would endure. He offered us gifts of seeds, a filled water gourd, and a planting
