Friends, we are undertaking the restoration and renovation of the Kykotsmovi family home and grounds of the late Thomas Banyacya, historic figure and Interpreter and Spokesman for Traditional Hopi religious and Spiritual Leaders, who lived and worked from here, to mark and celebrate Thomas Banyacya's legacy to Hopi and to the world.

Your donation and subscription or gift will help make possible and maintain this important landmark and archive dedicated to Thomas Banyacya's legacy as advocate and proponent of indigenous and Hopi sovereignty and culture in the world.

As well as restoring a longtime destination for friends and visitors from all around the continent and world, the project will improve and boost the local economy by hiring and paying local workers, stonemasons and construction personnel to carry out the work, which supports our families and enhances the local community.

The restoration is also a way to address many requests by people to visit and have an informal local meeting place for groups and individuals, where old friends and new generations will be able to visit, meet, eat together and stay.

The property is located in the center of Kykotsmovi  and consists of an extended home structure comprising an original Hopi stone house and a more modern timber frame house built in the 1930s. Both are in need of substantial renovation.

The traditional Hopi stone house where Thomas Banyacya first lived as a young man with his grandmother and then with his own family will become a meeting space and archive hub. The timber frame family house will be able to host visitors and enable stayovers for friends and visitors from around the world.

The grounds and garden are planted with elm and fruit trees and grapes and will be supplemented with new plantings and a grey water irrigation system.

Beneath a small field next to the house is an old stone clad well that has been buried for many years and will be excavated and restored to full working use.

To repair, renovate and preserve as a landmark and space:
Renovations, restoration :
I. Roof, structure and exterior, interior
II. Roof, repair and rebuild where necessary
III. Structure, rebuild and repair
IV Interior, repair and redecorate, furnishings
V. Grounds, garden, fields

Our immediate quest is to raise an initial $25,000 to start off the project and provide equipment and services like building debris disposal. We foresee a projected $100,000  needed to deal with the overall structural renovation and reconstruction.

Electronic donations can be made via the donate button below on this page.

Your donation or subscription will help make possible and maintain this important landmark and archive dedicated to Thomas Banyacya's legacy and advocacy of Hopi culture and indigenous sovereignty.

We gladly accept all payment methods for donations and gifts, especially those that do not charge us fees like Zelle, Venmo, and similar.

We also gladly accept checks/cheques, money orders and other pay ment methods.

Please contact us if you need more infomation and details.

Donations above $3,000 that need a tax receipt for deductions can be made thru our partners at Foundation Earth. Please inquire for details.

FOUNDATION EARTH is a national, non-profit, public interest advocacy organization founded in 2011. Foundation Earth embraces cultural worldviews that revere the natural world, ecological economics, appropriate technology, biosphere education, and earth jurisprudence whose mission is to bring an earth-centered “True Cost Economy” into reality. Randy Hayes is the executive director.