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With the publication of this valuable ethnohistory, Clemmer (Univ. of Denver) brings to conclusion more than 25 years of research, writing, and thinking about the Hopi of northeastern Arizona. This study chronicles the last 100 years of Hopi history and more. The author introduces the subject with an excellent first chapter that examines Hopi prophecy within the context of seemingly incompatible systems theory of modern social science. As close to a Hopi perspective as a non-Hopi scholar can come, Clemmer concentrates his analysis of the people's struggle with modernity through six major themes in recent Hopi history: the "Oraibi split," the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934, the rise of a political movement known as "traditionalism," energy development during the 1960s, the Hopi-Navajo land dispute, and the plundering of sacred ceremonial objects over the last century. It is well for people to remember, Clemmer concludes, that the Hopi possess a history that stretches back for more than a thousand years. The Hopi approach their future with vast cultural resources upon which to draw. This work will prove indispensable for students of American Indian ethnohistory. All levels. L. G. Moses Oklahoma State University