"My name is Thomas Banyacya. I have been interpreting for my people for anumber of years: since 1948. At that time, in Shungopaavi village,Hopileaders, Chiefs and Religious men met for two days and went into many ofthe Hopi prophesies and knowledge that has been kept within thereligious societies ever since we came here many, many centuriesago.Since 1948 I have been putting all of my time and effort intohelping my people to explain their position, their religiouslives,their traditions, their warnings and their prophesies. They tellthatthis is the time of world events and troubles to which theprophecies refer.Things that bad been prophesied are now beingfulfilled, and they felt that it is time that this knowledge be broughtout to all people,not only to the Hopis and to other native people ofthis land, but to all people who are here on the continents called Northand South America.We are now facing a severe day when severe punishmentmay be meted out to those of us who have not been following theinstructions of the Great Spirit.

The Hotevilla people have thesacred stone tablets. The Oraibi people have the sacred stonetablets.The Shungopaavi people, on another mesa, have their religiousorder still functioning as it was from the beginning. The villageof Mishongnovi and the first mesa people are still exercising andcarrying on their sacred ritual ceremonies. They are all holding on tothe life of the Great Spirit and of the people here in this land, sothat this land will never be destroyed like it happened in anotherworld."