奥拉AURA

在大峡谷附近有个新东西几乎让我吐了出来：霍皮人的新赌场。多年来霍皮人一直反对建赌场，但是最终还是在霍皮人保护区建了赌场，如果想知道详情的话，你可以听听科罗纳多讲的。这件事情证实了他的观点，我觉得真令人沮丧。不过，或多或少，他们还在延续他们的手艺和传统，希望如此。西内为我提供了一些相关的链接。
There’s something new in the Grand Canyon neighborhood that just about makes me throw up: the Hopi’s new casino. You can listen to Coronado if you want to about the casino coming to the Hopi reservation after many years of their opposing it. It vindicates his opinion and I find the whole thing very depressing. But at least they’re continuing with their crafts and traditions, hopefully. And Sine has included some links for me about all that.

科罗纳多CORONADO

奥拉和许多人一样，都钦佩美国印第安文化，不仅仅是因为他们独特而又实用的手工艺品，而且还因为印第安人致力于他们的信仰和生活方式，尽管处处充斥着外来文化，对他们年轻的一代是一种持续不断的诱惑。面临在失败面前保持传统的问题，已经导致全国各地的部落接受赌场作为孤立的入侵者，以生产这些外来文化所需要的食物等东西，而以前这些东西在院子里或自然界都是免费的。我觉得奥拉喜欢霍皮人，因为他们很像她：拒绝主流文化。她几乎不知道，是霍皮人挖煤和运营属于主流文化的发电厂的工作收入，让她的拒绝成为可能。多么讽刺！但是，正是由于该电厂的关闭，霍皮人改变了态度，现在允许在他们的保护区开设赌场。如果是为了创造更好的环境，奥拉可能会支持电厂的关闭。但她没想到，真正让电厂关闭的是源自天然气的竞争，它是一种更便宜的燃料。结果呢，主流文化的这个盈利的公用事业，更加有利可图，这些不是受了霍皮人的启发，对他们也没什么帮助......
Aura and many others admire American Indian culture not just for the handmade objects that are useful as well as unique, but also for the Indians’ dedication to their beliefs and way of living despite being surrounded by the alien culture that triumphed over them and whose existence is a constant temptation to the young. And the very real problem of maintaining tradition in the face of defeat has led tribes nationwide to accept casinos as isolated intrusions that produce what the surrounding culture demands to provide stuff like food that used to be free in the garden or in nature. I think Aura likes the Hopi because they’re like her: they reject the dominant culture. Little did she know that what made that rejection possible was income from the jobs Hopis took to mine coal and run the dominant culture’s electric power plant. What irony ! But it’s the closing of that plant that has led to an about face by the Hopi nation to now permit a casino on their reservation. Aura might have endorsed the plant’s closure had it been done to permit a better environment. But she can’t even have that, as the closure has been caused by competition from a cheaper fuel: natural gas. The dominant culture’s agent in this development, a for-profit utility, will be even more profitable as a result, something that wasn’t inspired by the Hopi and I don’t suppose will be all that helpful to them either...

赌场的到来将有望让他们保持那种奥拉羡慕的文化氛围，当您参观他们创造的那些东西时，他们会向您解读的。看看西内提供的链接。
The coming of the casino will hopefully allow them to maintain the culture Aura admires and that you may too when you visit what they’ve created to explain themselves to us. Check out the links Sine put in.

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●Hopi Cultural Center - Intro

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