Victor Masayesva, Jr.

author · photographer

Native American-Hopi^[1] b. 1951, Hotevilla, Arizona^[1] active 1970–present

Victor Masayesva, Jr. is a Native American-Hopi artist and photographer raised in the Hopi village of Hotevilla, Arizona. He was recruited to the Horace Mann School in New York as a teenager and later studied Hopi ceremonies and English at Princeton University, where he took photography courses with Emmet Gowin. After graduate studies in English and photography at the University of Arizona, Masayesva became the director of Hotevilla's Ethnic Heritage Program. His artistic work combines traditional Hopi culture with contemporary media, including filmmaking and mixed-media photography that explores themes of commercialization, appropriation, exploitation, and repatriation of Native culture.^[1,2]

• Hopi culture
• Native American identity
• cultural appropriation
• repatriation
• visual storytelling