Donald Dawahongnewa

Donald Dawahongnewa (Hopi) is a member of the Hopi Tribe and belongs to the Water and Corn Clan. He is a consultant for traditional Hopi farming practices and specializes in Hopi ethnography. Donald is retired from working at the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office where he served as the Hopilavayi outreach coordinator and educator. Dedicated to the preservation of Hopi language and culture, Donald has extensive experience in working with Hopi teachers to disseminate this knowledge to Hopi students. For more than 15 years, Donald and his brother (Ronald Wadsworth) have collaborated with researchers, students, and volunteers who participated in the Pueblo Farming Project—a collaborative endeavor with the Hopi Tribe to grow experimental gardens on Crow Canyon’s campus and the Hopi’s ancestral land to compare how the dry land farming done at Hopi today is similar or different to the practices done in the Mesa Verde region. Donald is a resident of Songòopavi, a Second Mesa village.