Hopis have made their mark in the world of running, author says

(University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) To be Hopi is to run. So it's no surprise that Hopi scholar Matthew Sakiestewa Gilbert was drawn to the story of runners from his tribal community often running with and beating the world's best in the early 1900s. It's the story that Gilbert, a University of Illinois professor, tells in "Hopi Runners: Crossing the Terrain Between Indian and American," being published this month.