A handful of teenagers on the Hopi reservation saw a need for a safe place to skateboard and made it happen
Francisco Mata, left, Kira Nevayaktewa, Quintin Nahsonhoya and Felicia Mata help lay a concrete foundation for a skate ramp on Nov. 6, 2021, in the Village of Tewa on the Hopi reservation in northeastern Arizona. A handful of Hopi youth, including Nevayaktewa and Nahsonhoya, worked together to create the skate spot that opened this spring. VILLAGE OF TEWA, Ariz.
“I hope this will inspire other youth groups to try and do something like this to make the Hopi community a better place for the future generations of our people,” said Quintin “Q” Nahsonhoya, one of a handful of co-leads on the project.for the highway that runs through the 2,500 square-mile Hopi reservation and connects the more than dozen villages. Kira Nevayaktewa came up with the logo that features a cat named"Skategod" that was part of the crew.
“That gives it legitimacy in a lot of adult eyes, people who are making the rules or who fund ," she said. “This sense of skateboarding being outsider and niche and oppositional and dangerous, I think it's really disappearing.” The co-leads, who also include Laela Nevayaktewa and Jacque Thorpe, have a mix of shy and outspoken characteristics. Each of them became comfortable talking with people outside their circle of family and friends. They got approval from the Village of Tewa for land to build the skate spot — no small feat on tribal land where development requires approval from clans, permit holders or the larger community.
“It keeps you from doing nothing with your time, and that's how I see Hopi and skateboarding coming together, filling your days and your time with something positive,” Thorpe said. “If they believed in themselves, we were going to walk them through this whole process,” said Paul Molina, another mentor.
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