Native Americans/ Hopewell Is the Hopewell a tribe?

Answer 1

As far as the Hopewell being a named tribe, like the Apache, Navajo, Cheyenne and so forth? No. The Hopewell, also known as the Mound Builders, was a culture of people, not really a tribe.
The Hopewell culture was from 200-400 AD, and it flourished along the rivers in the northeastern and midwestern U.S. and it stretched from Western New York to Missouri and from Wisconsin to Mississippi. They were our version of the Aztecs and Mayans. By the way, the name "Hopewell?" It came from the person that owned the farm where an earthwork site was excavated in 1891-1892, his name was Mordecai Cloud Hopewell.

Answer 2

yes :

The Daily Life of the Hopewell Indians



The Hopewells were a prehistoric tribe of mound-building Indians from the Middle Woodland Period. The Hopewells were very intellectual and well-rounded people. Preserved artifacts, from the Kuhne Site, helped made it possible to reconstruct the Hopewell life setting.



The Hopewells knew about fire. Some of the artifacts that were sifted through were burnt pottery, flint stones, and fire-cracked rock and evidence of charcoal, burnt areas where fire would have been in the village. These artifacts proved this theory. Hopewell Indians were very creative with their pottery. Some pottery pieces had certain designs on them that resembled cord or twine. Some other pieces of pottery had a circle imprint design on them. The pots had rims and curved bottoms.





The Hopewells had a very simple diet. The garbage pits showed evidence of deer, turtle, clams, walnuts, and possibly other small animal making up their diet. Deer leg bones, turtle shell pieces, clam shells, teeth of herbivores, a small rodent jaw bone, and canine bones were found. The Indians may have cooked these animals because white bone was found, which signifies that it had been cooked. Finding many walnut shells would lead one to believe that the walnuts were an important staple of the Indians' diet.

Polished Bone Awl





The Hopewells had to be able to catch their food. The projectile points would have enabled them to hunt and kill both large and small animals. Many different types and sizes of arrowheads were found, as well as scrapers. Scrapers were used to remove animal meat or skins. Hammer stones were used to pound or pulverize objects. A grinding stone was another good object among the artifacts. They were used to crush nuts and grains. Axe heads were used to cut things. Another tool that was found was an awl. It was used to poke through animal hides to make holes for leather lacings. This was how most of their clothing was made. Also found was an object that looked like it might have been used as a spatula or some kind of utensil because if its curved surface in the middle.

Answer 3

do you by any chance mean the 'Hopi' indians.. ?... cant say that i ever hear of a NATIVE 'tribal' indian called hopewells...altho i have heard natives recomend that individuals "DREAM WELL..., HOPE WELL...., YOU BECOME WHAT YOU DREAM...GET WHAT YOU HOPE FOR". said casually to a successful person, the comment would be... "you have dreamed well, friend."
I hear of Hopewell springs, and know of communitys called Hopewell, saw a boat named Hopewell once, ON a lake called 'Hopewell' believe it or not...in New Mexico...there's a greeting in Cambodia [?] that translates out to something similar i think. ... but what do i know.... there were litterly dozens of 'tribes' of natives here, before 'assemulation' and 'integration' absorbed [?] them. Could it be that a band or branch is refered to locally as Hopewells...?...them being associated with a land mark, or locality, but being of a nation known by another name?