Book of the Hopi Author:Frank Waters 8th ed. - THE BOOK OF THE HOPI is unquestionably the best book ever published about history, mythology and rituals of the Hopi Indians of the American Southwest. To Frank Waters the thirty-two Hopi elders told for the first time their legends, the meaning of their religious rituals and annual ceremonies, and their deeply rooted view of the world... more ». The result is a beautiful and moving book, an important landmark in anthropology which brings to life again an Indian trial culture now almost completely destroyed.« less