December 27, 2007
Emory Sekaquaptewa, esteemed University of Arizona (UA) anthropologist, Hopi educator, judge, artist and cultural treasure passed away Dec. 14. Among his most notable achievements is the compilation of a Hopi language dictionary (NHO file photo).
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TUCSON-University of Arizona (UA) anthropologist Emory Sekaquaptewa spent a lifetime working to save his Hopi culture and language from extinction, a passion he pursued to the end. Sekaquaptewa, Hopi educator, judge, artist and cultural treasure as well as a noted research anthropologist at the UA's Bureau of Applied Research in Anthropology (BARA), died Dec. 14.