Hopi Run Celebrates Sacred Water

The runners came from 12 desert villages, some of which, such as Oraibi, are actually older than Tenochtitlan, founded in 1325 A.D. In the Hopi mesas, the water is scarce and always threatened by mining corporations (Peabody, no more)) that for decades have extracted and contaminated their underground waters. Despite this, their maize grows.