A Hopi artist was hired to decorate a tourist tower on the South Rim, and he used it to put Hopi history on the wall. Fred Kabotie was born around 1900 at Second Mesa on the Hopi Reservation. His Hopi name was Naqavoy’ma, which means Day After Day. His family was among those who helped found the village of Hotevilla in 1906, a community built specifically to hold onto Hopi traditions that were being pushed out. By 1915 the federal government was sending Hopi children away to the Santa Fe Indian School in New Mexico. That is where he was given the name Fred Kabotie. He drew katsinas to deal with missing home, and sold his first painting for 50 cents to the school’s carpentry teacher. By 1920 his work was being shown in New York. In 1926 he came to the Grand Canyon and worked for the Fred Harvey Company as a guide. In 1932 his paintings were in the American Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Then Mary Colter hired him to paint the interior of her new Desert View Watchtower. He painted...