Ammon Hennacy and the Hopi Traditionalist Movement: Roots of the Counterculture's Favorite Indians

The location is now named the Gordon Hirabayashi Recreation Site in honor of the brave Japanese American who contested and eventually overturned his convictions for resisting Japanese curfew and relocation during the anti-Japanese hysteria that ensued after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. [...]it appears that Banyacya hid Hennacy's involvement from Clemmer, and possible reasons for this emerge in this study.8 Non-Hopis have widely perceived Hopi factions of the mid- to late-twentieth century as "progressives" and "traditionals."