[8] In 1890 a number of residents more receptive to the cultural influences moved closer to the trading post to establish Kykotsmovi Village, sometimes called New Oraibi.Tribal leaders on differing sides of the schism engaged in a bloodless competition to determine the outcome,[10] which resulted in the expulsion of the hostiles (traditionalists), who left to found the village of Hotevilla.While visitors to the pueblo are welcomed (a short road connects to Arizona State Route 264), the residents tend to be very private and do not allow photographs to be taken in the town.Hopi educator, writer, and potter Polingaysi Qöyawayma (1892–1990) related stories of growing up in Oraibi in her 1964 autobiography No Turning Back.[16] The social anthropologist Sherry Ortner uses the phrase "another pot from Old Oraibi" to characterize a style of exhaustive "thickness" in ethnographic writing which—hubristically, in her view—attempts a "holistic" comprehension of the culture under scrutiny.
Abandoned house and the outskirts of Oraibi village