WALPI

Indian pueblo (village), Navajo County, northeastern Arizona, U.S., on the edge of a high mesa in the Hopi Indian Reservation. It comprises a group of angular stone houses of two to three stories crowded on a narrow tip of the steep-walled mesa at an elevation of 6,225 ft (1,897 m). The original pueblo (founded c. 1700) was on a lower part of the mesa, but following the Pueblo Rebellion (q.v.) the inhabitants moved to the top as a defense measure against Spanish retaliation. Walpi is known for an antelope ceremony and for snake dances, held during odd years in August. Shitchumovi (Sichomivi) pueblo is adjacent and Hano is nearby.