Moquis, Kastiilam, and the Trauma of History: Hopi Oral Traditions of Seventeenth-Century Franciscan Missionary Abuses

On November 7, 2002, soon afterMoquis and Kastiilam:The Hopi History Project began,¹ Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa of the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office interviewed vice-chairman of the Hopi Tribe, Elgean Joshevama, in his office in Kykotsmovi, Arizona. Stewart was there to record Hopi oral traditions Vice-Chairman Joshevama had heard about the Kastiilam, the Spaniards who conquered and missionized the Hopis between 1629 and the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. “The information that I heard about came from not a lot of discussions, because apparently this was an issue that was very difficult to talk about, and so people were not very