KYKOTSMOVI, (Ariz.) - Relying on their own feet and centuries of tradition, Hopi Indians runners 12 to 75 years of age have run from their desert mesas homelands of Arizona some 1,500 miles south to Mexico starting March 2. They carry an ancient message about water to the 4th World Water Forum March 16 to 20 in Mexico City. "I AM A SIMPLE MAN" – says Ruben Saufkie, Sr., center, a Hopi from Arizona, as he tells Otomi, Teotihuacanos and dancers from Amatlan de Quetzalcoatl in Mexico City about a delegation of Hopi runners who are bringing sacred spring waters gathered from around the world to the World Water Forum from March 16 to 20 in a call for spiritual unity. In the middle of the dry season, drops of rain began to fall, a sign of assistance from the spirit of water, said Saufkie.
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