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What's in a Name?
Montezuma was Never Here:
Though we call this place Montezuma Castle today, the descendants of its inhabitants know it by other names. To the Hopi, it is both Sakaytaka and Wupat'pela -- the "place where the deep ladders are going up" and "long, high walls."
Montezuma Castle is among their most important ancestral sites in the Verde Valley. Hopi consultants say the Parrot, Bear, Water, Cloud, Bearstrap, Bluebird, and Spider clans all resided here. |